Friedrich Nietzsche born at Röcken in the outskirts of Lützen, province of Saxony to Franziska Nietzsche, née Oehler, and Carl Ludwig Nietzsche, a pastor, who names his son after King Friedrich William IV of Prussia.
1846 July 10
Birth of Elisabeth Nietzsche.
1848 February 27
Birth of Joseph Nietzsche.
1849 July 30
Nietzsche's father (age 36) dies of a brain tumor.
1850
Joseph Nietzsche dies on January 9th.
Franziska moves the family to Naumburg, close to relatives and friends, where Nietzsche attends the local elementary school.
1853
Meets childhood friends Gustav Krug and Wilhelm Pinder, cousins of each other; Nietzsche's paternal grandmother Erdmuthe Nietzsche was a friend of their families.
On Easter, he enrolls at the "Institut zum Zwecke gründlicher Vorbereitung für Gymnasien und andere höhere Lehranstalten," a school run by Karl Moritz Weber.