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Born in Ulm, Germany, to Hermann Einstein (1847-1902) and Pauline Koch (1858-1920).

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Einsteins move to Munich.

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1881 Sister Maja (Maria) born (d. 1951).

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Enters Luitpold school in Munich.

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Family moves to Italy, Albert stays at Luitpold.

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1895 Rejoins family in Pavia, then goes to cantonal school in Aarau, Switzerland.

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Renounces German citizenship.
Gets diploma from Aarau, enrolls at ETH (Federal Institute of Technology) in Zurich.

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Gets diploma from ETH.

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Becomes Swiss citizen.

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Employed at patent office, Bern.

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Marries Mileva Maric (1875-1948). They have two sons, Hans Albert (1904-1973), who became a successful hydraulic engineer, and Eduard (1910-1965), who fell prey to incurable schizophrenia. A daughter (1902-?) was born before the marriage and apparently put up for adoption--her fate is unknown.

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Publishes in the Annalen der Physik:

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Becomes associate professor at University of Zurich.
Further work on quantum theory.

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Becomes full professor at Karl-Ferdinand University in Prague.
Predicts bending of starlight at eclipses (but gets the magnitude wrong).

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Becomes professor at the ETH in Zurich.

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Becomes professor at University of Berlin.
Separates from Mileva and sons.
Outbreak of First World War.

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Cosigns "Manifesto to Europeans" separating himself from German militarism.
-Feldgleichungen der Gravitation, the general relativity equations.

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Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie, book laying out the general theory of relativity.
Becomes president of the German Physical Society.

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Becomes director of Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute (which supports research in Germany).
-Kosmologische Betrachtungen zur allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie, cosmology equations with the "cosmological term" and expanding universe

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End of First World War; revolution in Germany.

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Divorced from Mileva. Marries his cousin Elsa Einstein Löwenthal (1876-1936). Her adult daughters by a previous marriage, Ilse (1897-1934) and Margot (1899-1986), had already legally taken the name Einstein.
Bending of light near sun observed at eclipse.

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Public attacks on relativity theory and Einstein by anti-Semites.

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First visit to United States.

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Works on unified field theory.
Visits Far East.
Awarded Nobel Prize in physics "for his services to theoretical physics and in particular for his discovery of the law of the photo-electric effect."

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Inauguration of Einstein Institute with "Einstein Tower" in Potsdam.

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Extended visit to United States, chiefly at the California Institute of Technology.

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Nazis come to power in Germany; Einstein settles in United States.

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Outbreak of Second World War; Einstein signs letter to President Roosevelt warning of possibility of atomic bombs.

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Becomes citizen of United States (retaining Swiss citizenship).

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Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; end of Second World War.

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Death of Elsa.

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Generalized theory of gravitation, an example of continuing attempts to find a more universal mathematical approach to field theory.

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Offered presidency of Israel, and declines.

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(April 18) Dies in Princeton.