Albert Einstein is born in Ulm, Germany.
Einstein's family moved to Munich, Germany.
Einstein enrolls in the second grade of Petersschule(a Catholic elementary school).He begins taking violin lessons.
Max Talmud begins joining Einstein's family for dinner regularly, and teaches Albert about scientific and philosophical writings.
Einstein is accepted at the Luitpold Gymnasium.
Einstein's family moves to Milan, Italy, but Einstein remains in Munich at gymnasium to continue his education.
Albert drops out of Luitpold Gymnasium and joins his family in Milan, Italy.
After failing the entry exam for the Zurich Polytechnic, Einstein is accepted to the trade department of the cantonal school in Aarau, Switzerland.
Einstein's officially renounces his German citizenship.
Einstein begins studying at the Zurich Polytechnic in a teachers' training program.
Einstein receives his diploma as a mathematics teacher and starts work on his doctoral thesis.
Einstein officially becomes a Swiss citizen.
Einstein works as a temporary teacher in the Technical College in Winterthur, Switzerland.
Works as a teacher at a private school in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.
Lieserl, Einstein and Mileva Maric's illegitimate daughter, is born in Hungary.
Einstein is hired as a patent officer in Bern.
Einstein and Mileva are married in Bern.
Einstein forms the Olympia Academy with his friends Maurice Solovine and Conrad Habicht.
Hans Albert, Einstein and Mileva's first son, is born in Bern.
Einstein completes his paper on quantum theory.
Einstein's paper on Brownian motion is accepted by the Annalen der Physik.
Einstein's paper on the special theory of relativity is published in the Annalen der Physik.
Einstein receives his doctorate from the University of Zurich.
Einstein becomes a privatdozent at Bern University.
Einstein is appointed extraordinary professor of theoretical physics at Zurich University.
Eduard, the Einsteins' second son, is born in Zurich.
Einstein is appointed professor of theoretical physics at the Zurich Polytechnic.
Einstein begins collaborating with Marcel Grossman about the general theory of relativity.
Einstein accepts a position at the University of Berlin.
Einstein and Mileva separate, and she returns to Zurich with their sons.
Einstein signs a "Manifesto to the Europeans" advocating his pacifist and internationalist ideals. He also completes his formulation of the general theory of relativity.
Einstein moves into the apartment of his cousin Elsa in Berlin.
The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics begins operating under Einstein's management.
Einstein and Mileva obtain a divorce.
Einstein marries his cousin Elsa in Berlin.
A solar eclipse has allowed scientists to observe phenomena predicted by Einstein's general relativity theory, and news of the theory's confirmation is announced at a ceremonial meeting of the Royal Society of London. Einstein becomes famous.
Einstein visits the U.S. for the first time on a fund- raising tour for the establishment of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Einstein wins the Nobel Prize for his work on quantum theory.
Heisenberg, Schroedinger, Born, and others formulate quantum mechanics on the basis of Einstein's quantum theory.
Einstein begins debating with Bohr about the new quantum mechanics at the Solvay Conference in Brussels.
August 1932: ·Einstein is appointed to the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton. He plans to spend half a year a Princeton and the other half in Berlin.
anuary 30, 1933: ·The Nazis seize power in Germany.
Einstein resigns from the Prussian Academy of Sciences and declares that he will not return to Germany.
Einstein moves to the United States with his wife and his secretary Helen Dukas.
Elsa Einstein dies in Princeton.
Einstein signs a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt urging the acceleration of atomic bomb development.
Einstein becomes an American citizen.
The first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.
The State of Israel is established by the United Nations.
Einstein dies in New Jersey. His body is cremated and his papers turned over to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
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