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Oct 16–Mar 15 Is listed as offering course on various topics in theoretical
physics at the University of Berlin.
Oct 21 Arrives in Leyden.
Oct 25–31 “Magnet-Woche” at the University of Leyden.
Oct 27 Presents “Ether and the Theory of Relativity” as inaugural
lecture in Leyden.
Nov 2 Visits Spinoza House in Rijnsburg.
Nov 3 Lectures in Hannover.
Nov 7 Returns to Berlin.
after Nov 11 “Private Expert Opinion for Telefunken on the Patents of
Meissner and Kühn” (Vol. 7, Doc. 48).
Nov 15 First session of the League of Nations is held in Geneva.
Nov 20 “Response to Ernst Reichenbächer, ‘To What Extent Can
Modern Gravitational Theory Be Established without
Relativity?’” (Vol. 7, Doc. 49) is signed.
after Dec 8 “Brief Outline of the Development of the Theory of
Relativity” (Vol. 7, Doc. 50) is signed.
Dec 15 Co-signs petition to pardon ten commissars of the Hungar-
ian Soviet Republic.
Dec 31 Awarded the Order Pour le mérite for Science and the Arts
(Peace Class).