| March 21, 1685 |
Birth of Johann Sebastian Bach
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| 1694 |
Lost his mother. |
| 1695 |
Death of his father. Adopted
by brother Johann Christoph. |
| 1700 |
Traveled to Lüneburg to join
the choir at St. Michael’s School. |
| 1703 |
First job as an organist at
the New Church at Arnstadt. |
| 1707 |
Married Maria Barbarra on
Easter Sunday and in June took the position of organist at Mühlhausen. |
| 1717 |
Arrested by Duke of Weimar,
upon release takes up the position of the Kappelmeister to Prince Leopold of Cöthen. |
| 1720 |
Death of wife. |
| 1721 |
Composed
‘Brandenburg Concertos’ and married Anna Magdalena. |
| 1722 |
Composed ‘The
Well-Tempered Clavier’. |
| 1723 |
Became the cantor
at St. Thomas’s Church in Leipzig. |
| 1729 |
Took over the
directorship of Collegium Musicum. |
| 1747 |
Worked on
‘The Musical Offering’ and dedicated it to Frederick the Great. |
| 1748 |
Began work on
‘The Art of the Fugue’. |
| 1750 |
Underwent two
unsuccessful operations of the eye. |
| July 31, 1750 |
Bach bids farewell
to the mortal shore. |
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