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March 14, 1879 - Albert Einstein born in Ulm, Germany. |
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1880 - Einstein family moves to Munich where Hermann Einstein sets up a small firm
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1881 - Maja, Einstein's sister is born
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1889 - Enters the Luitpold Gymnasium secondary school.
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1894 - Einstein is separated from his family to finish school while his parents and Maja move to Italy to start another business
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1896 - Einstein receives his degree from Aarau and is admitted to the ETH.
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February 1901 - Einstein granted Swiss citizenship
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January 1903 - marries Mileva Maric, his Serbian fellow student at the ETH
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1905 - Einstein publishes four papers: brownian motion; the photoelectric effect; finding the size of moleules; and Relativity
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1908 - Einstein becomes a part-time teacher at Bern University
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October 1912 - Albert Einstein returns to the Swiss Polytechnic, the school that had failed him on his first entrance examination, as a full professor.
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April 1914, Einsteins moved to Berlin
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Summer of 1914 - Mileva takes children to Switzerland for a vacation, marking the end of the marriage.
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August 1914 - First World War begins.
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1915 - Einstein visits French writer and pacifist Romain Rolland in Switzerland
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May 29, 1919 - Eclipse viewed from South America proves Einstein's right.
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1919 - Einstein obtains a divorce from Mileva and marries Elsa.
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1920 - Only E=mc2 is unproven. Photons explain the photoelectric effect.
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1921 - Einstein goes to the United States, England, and France to lecture on international cooperation.
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1923 - Louis de Boglie discovers that light was a stream of particles but guided by waves. He extended this wave-particle nature to electrons, protons, and every other body. Einstein endorses this idea. This discovery leads to the "quatum world."
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1927 - Solvay Conference marks the battle against the new wave mechanics.
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1928 - Einstein found with a serious heart condition and warned take it easy.
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January 1933 - Adolf Hittler came to power as chancellor of Germany
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October 1933 - Einsteins sail for the United States. They would never return to Europe again.
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December 1936 - Elsa Einstein dies after a long illness. Margot takes over as faithful secretary for Einstein.
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1938 - French and English leaders give Czechoslovakia to Hitler.
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August 2, 1939 - Einstein writes his famous letter to the president urging development of an atomic bomb against Germany.
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April 18, 1955 - After suffering major stomach pains, Einstein dies shortly after midnight.
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