March 14 in Victorian History
What the Victorians were up to on this date, year by remarkable year.
1879
Albert Einstein is born
In Ulm, in the new German Empire, Hermann and Pauline Einstein's son Albert is born. A slow-talking child who will stumble at his first try at the Zurich Polytechnic, he will rewrite physics with relativity. He is born squarely in the Victorian age -- and will help to end its certainties.