Albert Einstine

By Natha B

  • Einstine 1879

    Einstine 1879
    This timeline starts on March 14, 1879 when Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany. His parents were Hermann and Pauline Einstein

  • Einstine 1880

    The family move to Munich

  • Einstine 1881

    Einstine 1881
    His sister Maja (Maria) is born

  • Einstine

    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

  • Einstine 1889

    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

  • Einstine1896

    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

  • Einstine 1900

    Einstein graduates in 1900 from ETH with a degree in physics

  • Einstine 1901

    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.

  • Einstine 1902

    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

  • 1903

    Einstein marries Mileva

  • Einstine 1904

    Albert and Mileva's first son, Hans Albert Einstein, was born in Berne, Switzerland.

  • Einstine 1905

    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".

  • Einstine 1909

    He resigns from Patent Office and is appointed Associate Professor of theoretical physics at Zurich University

  • Einstine 1914

    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"

  • Einstine 1919

    Einstein and Mileva divorce and Einstein marries his cousin Elsa on May 29.
    A solar eclipse proves Einstein's General Theory of Relativity

  • Einstine 1936

    Elsa Einstein dies

  • Einstine 1939

    WW2 starts and Albert Einstein warns President Roosevelt that Germany might build an atomic bomb. He then recommends nuclear research

  • Einstine 1945

    WW2 ends with the terrible nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • Einstine 1952

    Albert Einstein is offered presidency of the State of Israel

  • Einstine 1955

    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