Robert Capa

  • Robert Capa is born.

    Robert Capa was born, 22 October 1913, Budapest, Hungary
  • WW1 ends

    WW1 ends
  • Eva Besnyo

    Becomes close friends with Eva Besnyo, his upstairs neighbour in Budapest. She later becomes a Photographer.
  • Market Crash

    Robert's life was affected and his life went bad for a while.
  • Protest

    Violent left-wing demonstration to protest unemployment. Capa age 17, fights in protest and spends the night beaten in a jail cell.
  • 1st big break

    Berlin is paralyzed by street fighting between the Social Democrats, the Nazis and the Communists. Capa get his first big break and is sent to Copenhagen to take photos of Leon Trotsky giving a speech to Danish students.
  • Fake ID

    Starts to work regularly for Alliance photo agency. Invents a new ID for a highly successful American Photographer named Robert Cappa.
  • First Major story

    First major story appears in Life. Photos of Chiang Kai-shek's supreme War council.
  • Joins the 2nd Infantry

    Joins the 2nd Infantry Division as it fights its way across the Zepplin Bridge.
  • Back in new york, meets Jemmy Hammond.

    Back in new york, meets Jemmy Hammond.
  • Returns to Israel

    Returns to Israel to make a fund-raising film for united Jewish appeal on the arrival, Internment and eventual settlement of immigrants.
  • Died

    He died