| 1818 | Karl Marx is born on May 5 in Trier, Prussia (now Germany), to Heinrich Marx and Henrietta Pressburg. |
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| 1835 | Marx graduates from the Trier Gymnasium and enrolls at the University of Bonn to study law. |
| 1836 | Marx transfers to the University of Berlin to continue his law studies and becomes interested in philosophy. |
| 1841 | Marx earns his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Jena. |
| 1842 | Marx becomes a journalist and editor for the Rheinische Zeitung, a radical newspaper in Cologne, Germany. |
| 1843 | Marx moves to Paris and begins writing for the German-French Annals, where he develops his ideas on socialism and communism. |
| 1844 | Marx meets Friedrich Engels in Paris, and they form a lifelong intellectual partnership. |
| 1845 | Marx is expelled from Paris and moves to Brussels, where he continues to develop his theories on socialism and communism. |
| 1848 |
Marx and Engels publish the “Communist Manifesto,” which lays out their ideas on class struggle and the necessity for a communist revolution. |
| 1850 | Marx moves to London, where he spends the rest of his life writing and organizing for the communist movement. |
| 1864 | Marx helps found the International Workingmen’s Association (also known as the First International), an organization dedicated to uniting socialist and communist movements around the world. |
| 1867 | Marx publishes the first volume of “Das Kapital |
| 1871 | Marx writes “The Civil War in France,” a pamphlet supporting the Paris Commune, which was a short-lived revolutionary government in Paris. |
| 1875 | Marx critiques the German Social Democratic Party’s Gotha Program, outlining his disagreements with their approach to socialism and advocating for a more revolutionary path. |
| 1881 | Marx’s wife, Jenny von Westphalen, passes away on December 2. |
| 1883 | Karl Marx dies on March 14 in London, England, at the age of 64. He is buried in Highgate Cemetery. |
| 1885 | Friedrich Engels publishes the second volume of “Das Kapital” posthumously, based on Marx’s notes. |
| 1894 | Engels publishes the third volume of “Das Kapital,” further expanding on Marx’s analysis of capitalism. |
| 20th Century | Marx’s ideas influence numerous revolutionary movements and governments around the world, including the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the establishment of the Soviet Union. |