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September 26, 1905

1905-09-26 00:00 UTC

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Special relativity

Special relativity
Photo: Lucien Chavan [1] (1868 - 1942), a friend of Einstein's when · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Einstein's paper on the electrodynamics of moving bodies appears in Annalen der Physik.
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When exactly did special relativity take place?
It is recorded at 1905-09-26 00:00 UTC — September 26, 1905 in Coordinated Universal Time. Every minute in this registry is stored in UTC so it reads the same anywhere in the world.
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