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Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany. His father, Hermann Einstein, was a pen mattress salesman who later founded an electronic equipment company with his brother.
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Einstein's parents move to Pavia, Italy, but Einstein is in Munich, Germany, to finish his first grade
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Einstein takes an exam to enter directly at the Swiss Polytechnic. Does not pass the arts exam. He then moved to Aarau, Switzerland, to do the second grade.
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Einstein manages to enter the ETH Zurich, a prestigious university of the time. He was 17 years old
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Albert falls in love with Mileva Maric, a classmate from Serbia, born in Titel, part of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire
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Einstein becomes a Swiss citizen. Unemployed, in search of work, finally finds work in Schaffhasen, Switzerland, as a teacher
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Mileva becomes pregnant. She moves to Hungary where she gives birth to Lieserl, who is given up for adoption. Albert Einstein moves to Bern, where he gets a job at the Swiss Patent Office. Father of Einstein dies
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Einstein publishes his most important work Annus Mirabilis. The Theory of Special Relativity is born. He was 26 years old
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The family moves to Zurich, where Albert works as a professor of theoretical physics at ETH, the university where he graduated
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Einstein becomes director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin and professor of theoretical physics at the University of Berlin. Einstein and Mileva start the divorce process
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Einstein gets very sick and remains on the verge of death. Her cousin, Elsa, helps as a nurse until her healing. Albert published his first article on cosmology
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Receives the Nobel Prize in Physics. 1921
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Identified as a Jew, he begins to fear the Nazis in Germany
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The Second World War begins. Einstein wrote his famous letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt warning of the possibility that Germany was building a nuclear bomb
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Albert Einstein, on April 16, dies of a heart attack
