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This timeline starts on March 14, 1879 when Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany. His parents were Hermann and Pauline Einstein
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The family move to Munich
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His sister Maja (Maria) is born
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The Compass - When he was only five years old his father showed Albert a pocket compass and he was fascinated by the thought that something unseen was moving the needle
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Albert Einstein is introduced to a family friend called Max Talmud who introduced the boy to books on science and mathematics. Albert starts his quest for facts and information available about the sciences. He attends the Luitpold-Gymnasium in Munich for the next six years
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Albert graduates from high school at the age of 17 and enrols at the ETH (the Federal Polytechnic) in Zurich. He renounces his German citizenship
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Einstein graduates in 1900 from ETH with a degree in physics
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Albert Einstein acquires Swiss citizenship. He completes his first scientific paper on the capillary forces of a straw. Mileva becomes pregnant and moves to live with her parents in to Hungary to give birth to their baby. Albert moves to Bern.
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Einstein and Mileva have a daughter called Lieserl Einstein who is later given up for adoption. Albert takes a job at the Swiss Patent Office
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Einstein marries Mileva
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Albert and Mileva's first son, Hans Albert Einstein, was born in Berne, Switzerland.
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His Special Theory of Relativity is born and he applies his theory to mass and energy and formulates the famous equation e=mc2. Einstein has four papers published in the Annalen der Physik, the leading German physics journal. 1905 is known as Einstein's "Wonderful Year".
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He resigns from Patent Office and is appointed Associate Professor of theoretical physics at Zurich University
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Albert and Mileva separate and live apart. Einstein is appointed Professor at University of Berlin
WW1 begins and Einstein signs anti-war "Manifesto to Europeans" -
Einstein and Mileva divorce and Einstein marries his cousin Elsa on May 29.
A solar eclipse proves Einstein's General Theory of Relativity -
Elsa Einstein dies
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WW2 starts and Albert Einstein warns President Roosevelt that Germany might build an atomic bomb. He then recommends nuclear research
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WW2 ends with the terrible nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Albert Einstein is offered presidency of the State of Israel
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Co-signs the Russell-Einstein Manifesto warning of the nuclear threat April 17: Albert Einstein experienced internal bleeding April 18: He died in Princeton Hospital at the age of 76
