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Einstein's Birth
On March 14, 1879 Albert Einstein was born to a jewish family in Ulm, a city in south Germany. The Einsteins were a middle class family made up of tradesmen and small business owners. His father Hermann Einstein was a salesman and engineer and founded a company that manufactured electrical equipment. His mother took care of the house and he only had one sibling, his sister Maja (Dank). -
Hermann Einstein Dies/ Einstein Marries
While at school in Zurich, Einstein met his future wife, Milena Maric, a Serbian physics student. Due to Maric's ethnic background, Einstein's parents were strongly against their relationship, but in 1902 Einstein's father died from congestive heart failure, and the couple were able to get married (Albert Einstein). -
Proposed the Equation E=MC2
In 1905 in his paper, “On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies,” Einstein proposed one of the best known equation in the scientific world. He proposed the equation E=MC2. Energy of a body (E)= Mass of that body (M) x speed of light squared (C2).This equation stated that tiny particles of matter could be converted into huge amounts of energy. This discovery is the base of atomic power (Albert Einstein). -
The Titanic Sinks
The Titanic was an "unsinkable" British steamship that was supposed to carry 2,240 passengers from Southampton to New York. Along the way in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, the Titanic hit an iceberg and in the early morning of April 15, the Titanic sank. More than 1,500 passengers and crew lost their lives (Ballard). -
WW1 Starts
WW1 was started after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his pregnant wife at Sarajevo. The leaders of Germany and Austria-Hungary started the war as an attempt to destroy its Balkan rival Serbia. The Central Powers who were Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States who were the Allied Powers (World War 1). -
Einstein Completed the General Theory of Relativity
In 1915, Einstein completed, what he considered to be the highest point of his life research. Einstein finished his General Theory of Relativity which states that what we think of as the force of gravity actually comes from the curvature of space and time. Einstein's theory was confirmed in 1919 by observations and measurements by Sir Frank Dyson and Sir Arthur Eddington during the 1919 solar eclipse (Albert Einstein). -
Einstein and Maric Divorced
Einstein and Maric's marriage was not a happy one and in 1919 they got a divorce. Maric had an emotional breakdown in connection the the divorce, Einstein, as part of the divorce, would give any money he received from possibly winning the Nobel Prize in the future to her. Throughout their marriage Einstein had been having an affair with his cousin, Elsa Löwenthal and in 1919 they got married. -
Women Won the Right to Vote
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified on August 18, 1920. This amendment granted women in the United States a right to vote, a right also known as women's suffrage. The 19th Amendment ended almost a century in women's protests (19th Amendment). -
The American Professional Football Association Established
On September 17, 1920 at Hupmobile showroom, of Ralph Hay, who was the owner of the hometown Bulldogs, the NFL was born. First it was known as the American Professional Football Association and later in 1922, renamed the National Football League. The first president of the league was Jim Thorpe (NFL Founded in Canton). -
Einstein won the Nobel Prize for Physics
In 1921, Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize for Physics, but not for his theory of relativity. It was his explanation of photoelectric effect and because his ideas on relativity were still questionable, he didn't win it for his theory of relativity. He didn't actually get the award until the following year due to a bureaucratic ruling. During his speech, he still talked about relativity (Albert Einstein). -
Einstein Took a Job at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton
In 1933, Einstein took on a position at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey. There he would spend the rest of his life working on a unified field theory. A unified field theory is an all-embracing paradigm, that is supposed to unify the varied laws of physics (Albert Einstein). -
New York Giants Win the World Series
In 1933, the New York Giants won the 1933 World Series against the Washington Senators 4-1. The New York Giants won the first two games and lost the third game, 4-0 against the senators. The Giants then went on to win the next two games 2-1 and 4-3 (Grun). -
Einstein Granted Permanent Residency in America
Einstein was born in Germany, making him a noncitizen in the United States. In 1935, he was granted permanent residency in America, and a few years later, he became a United States citizen (Albert Einstein). -
The Berlin Summer Olympics
The 1936 Olympics took place in Berlin, Nazi Germany, and was opened by Adolf Hitler who was the leader of the Nazis. The Nazis used the game for propaganda to show an image of a new, strong, and united Germany and hiding their targeting of Jews and Gypsies. They also wanted to hide Germany’s growing militarism. Because of human rights abuses, people in the United States and Europe called for a boycott of the games (U.S Holocaust Memorial). -
Einstein Works with United Nations
In 1947, an essay from The Atlantic Monthly said that Einstein was working with the United Nations. He did this to discourage using nuclear weapons at war (Albert Einstein). -
Einstein's Death
On April 18, 1955 Einstein died at 76 of an abdominal aortic aneurysm at the University Medical Center at Princeton. He refused to get surgery on it and said, I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially...it is time to go. I will do it elegantly" (Albert Einstein).
