1794CE
Invention
Eli Whitney Patents the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney receives a patent for the cotton gin, a machine that revolutionized the cotton industry but also contributed to the expansion of slavery in the American South.
Daily Chronicle
March 14
2 Historical Records
1879CE
Birth
Albert Einstein Born
Albert Einstein is born in Ulm, Germany. He would go on to develop the theory of relativity and win the Nobel Prize in Physics, becoming one of the most influential physicists in history.