1894- Move to Italy

Struggling financially, the Einstein family moves from Germany to Italy in search of better work. Albert, fifteen, stays behind in Munich to finish his schooling, but soon either quits or is kicked out of his high school and follows his parents to Italy.

1895- Boarding School in Aarau

Albert Einstein fails a test that he was taking to get out of his last year of highschool, forcing him to attend one final year of high school in Switzerland. in 1896, einstein graduates from high school and begins attending eth. einstein renounces his german citizenship to avoid mandatory military service in the german army. for the next four years he will not be a legal citizen of any nation

1900- College Graduation

Albert einstein graduates from eth with a degree in physics. he tries to find a teaching job but is unable to obtain work.

1901- Swiss Citizenship and Pregnant Girlfriend

Albert einstein obtains swiss citizenship in 1901. he travels to italy for a tryst with his on-again, off-again girlfriend, milena maric, a former classmate. he ends up getting her pregnant and she gives birth to leiserl einstein, albert's first child. the unwed couple, unable to care for the girl and perhaps ashamed of her illegitimate status, put her up for adoption. in 1903 They get married. in 1904, a year after getting married, she gives birth to their first son, hans albert.

1905- Annus Mirabilis

Over the course of a year that he will later describe as his miraculous year—he publishes four major theoretical papers in the prestigious German academic journal Annalen Der Physik. The four papers include a groundbreaking new interpretation of the photoelectric effect (for which Einstein will eventually win the Nobel Prize), as well as the first published exploration of the theory of Special Relativity and the first formulation of the famous equation e=mc2.

1910, 1911, 1912

Albert Einstein's wife Milena gives birth to their second son, Eduard. In 1911 the Einsteins move to Prague, where he takes his first full professorship after many years working at the Swiss Patent Office for teaching in part-time positions in Switzerland. After just a year in Prague, in 1912 the Einsteins move back to Switzerland, where he takes professorship at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

1914-1915

Albert Einstein moves to from Zurich to Berlin to become the director of the prestigious Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. His marriage to Milena begins to unravel, and his wife and children decide to stay behind in Zurich. They will never live together as a family again. In 1915, Einstein completes his General Theory of Relativity.

1919- Divorce and Remarriage

After several years of estrangement, Albert divorces his first wife Milena and immediately remarries. Einstein's second wife, Elsa Lowenthal, is a cousin who he fell in love when she nursed him back to health following a serious illness in 1917. At the close of World War I, Albert Einstein regains his German citizenship. On may 29, 1912, A solar eclipse provides dramatic observable evidence that Einstein's General Theory of Relativity is correct. Einstein suddenly becomes a worldwide celebrity.

1921- Nobel Prize

Albert einstein wins the nobel prize in physics for his work on the photoelectric effect, first published in 1905.

1933, 1936

Albert Einstein and his family, fearing anti-Semitic persecution, flee from Nazi Germany to resettle in the United States. Einstein takes a post at Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton, where he will remain until his death in 1955. in 1936, Albert Einstein's second wife Elsa dies of sudden illness.

1939- Letter to President Roosevelt and US Citizenship

Fearing that Nazi scientists might win the race to develop the world's first atomic bombs, Albert Einstein writes a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to launch an American program of nuclear research. in 1940, For the third time in his life, Albert Einstein changes his nationality, becoming a United States citizen while also retaining his Swiss citizenship.