Most Life Chronology
1846--born in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany. Illegitimate son of an impoverished clerk and a governess.
1855--mother dies
1867--joined Zurich section of International Working-Men's Association (First International)
1869-70--jailed three times in Vienna for militant activities
1871--expelled from Austria, went back to Germany
1872-73--worked on editing social democratic newspapers
1874--elected to German Reichstag
1878--re-elected to Reichstag, but resigned later that year
1880--expelled from Germany for "socialist activities", went to London and began working on "Freiheit"
1881--helped organize International Social Revolutionary Congress of London
1881-2--Served 18 months in jail for an editorial celebrating the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881.
1882--left London, went to Chicago
1883--became driving force behind "Pittsburgh Manifesto", a call to organize socialists into a single revolutionary group
1883--gives Beast of Property speech
1883-86--helped found International Working People's Association
1885--wrote "The Science of Revolutionary Warfare"
1889--met Emma Goldman
1890--traveled with Goldman, gave lectures
1891--imprisioned in New York
1896--published book with Goldman: "Anarchy defended by Anarchists"
1903--published several pamphlets
1906--published final work: Die Gottespest
1906--Died in Cincinnati, Ohio
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