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Albert Einstein is born in Ulm, Germany, the son of Herman Einstein, a German-Jewish featherbed salesman, his mother was Pauline.
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Einstein was very intrigued by his fathers compass. What caught his eye was the invisible force moving the needle.
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The Einstein family is struggling financially, Albert's parents move from Germany to Italy, Albert stays behind for now to finish schooling. He then later follows his parents. Aged-15
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Albert attempts to get out of his high school by attempting an entrance exam the ETH Zurich. He fails the test, this forces him to do one more year of high schooling.
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At the age of 17, Albert Einstein renounces his German citizenship to avoid mandatory military service in the German army.
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A year after failing his high school exam of entrance ETH, Albert graduates and starts his journey to attending ETH.
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Albert Einstein graduates from ETH with a degree in physics. He tries to find a teaching job, but is unable to obtain work.
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Albert Einstein obtains Swiss citizenship.
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Albert Einstein travels to Italy for a tryst with his on-again, off-again girlfriend, Milena Maric, a former classmate at the ETH. He ends up getting her pregnant.
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Milena Maric gives birth to Leiserl Einstein, Albert's first child. The unwed couple, unable to care for the girl and perhaps ashamed of her illegitimate status, put her up for adoption.
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Unable to find any work as a teacher or academic, Albert Einstein takes a job as a clerk at the Swiss Patent Office.
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Albert Einstein marries his longtime girlfriend, Milena Maric.
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A year after marrying Albert, his wife Milena gives birth to the Einsteins' first son, Hans Albert.
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Over the course of a year that he will later describe as his "Annus Mirabilis"—his miraculous year—Albert Einstein publishes four major theoretical papers in the prestigious German academic journal Annalen Der Physik.
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Albert Einstein's wife Milena gives birth to their second son, Eduard.
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The Einsteins move to Prague, where Albert assumes his first full professorship after many years working at the Swiss Patent Office or teaching in part-time positions in Switzerland.
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After just a year in Prague, the Einsteins move back to Switzerland, to where Albert takes professorship at his alma mater, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
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Albert Einstein moves to from Zurich to Berlin to become the director of the prestigious Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. His marriage to Milena begins to unravel, and his wife and children decide to stay behind in Zurich. They will never live together as a family again.
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Einstein completes his General Theory of Relativity.
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Albert Einstein wins the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the photoelectric effect, first published in 1905.
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Albert Einstein dies of heart failure at the age of 76..... 76 :(
