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Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany on March 14, 1879. As a child, Einstein revealed an extraordinary curiosity for understanding the mysteries of science. A typical child, Einstein took music lessons, playing both the violin and piano — a passion that followed him into adulthood.
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Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany on March 14, 1879.
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Albert's sister, Maria, known as Maja, is born in Munich, Germany.
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Family business closes for the first time, and Albert's parents move to Pavia, Italy. Albert remains in Munich.
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Albert ends his German citizenship and remains stateless for the next five years.
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At seventeen, Albert graduates from high school in Aarau, Switzerland.
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Einstein graduates from the Federal Polytechnical School in Zurich, Switzerland. He is deeply involved with a felloe student, Mileva Maric.
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Albert and Mileva have a daughter, Lieserl, in January. Einstein also begins working at a patent office in Bern, Switzerland. Albert's father, Hermman, dies.
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Albert Einstein marries Mileva Meric.
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A son, Hans Albert Einstein, is born.
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Einstein completes several groundbreaking papers relating to light, matter, motion, and energy.
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Einstein leaves the patent office in Bern to join the physics department at the University of Zurich.
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Mileva and Einstein's second son, Eduard, is born.
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Einstein arrives in Prague to work at the German University. In October, he attends the first Solvay Conference in Belgium.
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Einstein returns to Zurich to work at the ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology).
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Einstein arrives in Germany to begin work in Berlin (at the University of Berlin and Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics).
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Einstein publishes his general theory of reletivity.
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On Febuary 14, Mileva and Albert divorce. On June 2, he marries Elsa Lowenthal, his cousin. In November, the results from a solar eclipse confirm reletivity and Einstein becomes famous.
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Einstein wins the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Albert and Elsa Einstein leave Germany for good.
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Elsa Einstein dies.
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Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to U.S. President Roosevelt warning him that Germans may be pursuing the creation of an atom bomb.
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Einstein receives U.S. citizenship.
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Einstein retires from Princeton Institute for Advanced Study. In August, the U.S. drops two atomic bombs on Japan - one on Hiroshima and one on Nagasaki.
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Albert Einstein is offered the presidency of Israel, which he declines.
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At 1:15 a.m., at the age of seventy-six, Albert Einstein dies in Princeton Hospital of an abdominal aneursym.
