Karl marx biography timeline

1818Karl Marx is born on May 5 in Trier, Prussia (now Germany), to Heinrich Marx and Henrietta Pressburg.  1835Marx graduates from the Trier Gymnasium and enrolls at the University of Bonn to study law.  1836Marx transfers to the University of Berlin to continue his law studies and becomes interested in philosophy.  1841Marx earns his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Jena.  1842Marx becomes a journalist and editor for the Rheinische Zeitung, a radical newspaper in Cologne, Germany.  1843Marx moves to Paris and begins writing for the German-French Annals, where he develops his ideas on socialism and communism.  1844Marx meets Friedrich Engels in Paris, and they form a lifelong intellectual partnership.  1845Marx is expelled from Paris and moves to Brussels, where he continues to develop his theories on socialism and