BUGATTI FAMILY TIME LINE
1856
Carlo Bugatti is born in Milan, Italy
1870s
Carlo attends Brera Academy in Milan
1880
Carlo forms a union with Therese Lorioli; their child Deanice is born
1881
Ettore Bugatti is born
1884
Rembrandt Bugatti is born
1886?
Carlo designs bedroom furniture set as a gift for his sister Luigia and painter Segantiniearliest work by Carlo known to still exist
(some date it 1880); establishes workshop in Milan about this time
1888
Carlo receives Diploma of Honor at Italian Exhibition, London
1897
Ettore apprentices at Prinetti and Stucchi, a sewing machine company
1899
Ettore creates first motorized vehicle, a two-engine tricycle
1900
Carlo receives Silver Medal at Exposition Universelle, Paris
1901
Rembrandt's works first cast in bronze
Ettore's first four-wheel car exhibited in Milan, wins award
1902
Carlo receives Diploma of Honor at Turin Exhibition
Ettore marries Barbara Bolzoni; contracts with de Dietrich motocar factory; moves to Alsace
Rembrandt bronzes first exhibited at Venice Biennale
1902-4
Carlo and family move to Paris
Rembrandt signs with Hébrard; exhibits four plasters at Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and is elected a member; has
first exhibition of bronzes at Galerie Hébrard
Ettore moves to the Strasbourg area with the M. Mathis firm
1907
Carlo exhibits silver at Galerie Hébrard
Rembrandt goes to Antwerp for extended visits
Ettore moves to Cologne to work for Deutz
1908
Ettore designs the Type 10, the prototype for the Type 13
1909
Ettore's son Jean is born in Cologne
Carlo moves to Pierrefonds; goes into semiretirement
1910
Ettore opens his own factory in Molsheim; Type 13 is a success
1911
Rembrandt elected Chevalier of the Legion of Honor
1914
WWI breaks out; Ettore moves family to Milan, then Paris
Rembrandt goes to Italy, then Paris after Antwerp zoo's animals are killed
1916
Rembrandt commits suicide
1919
Ettore's Molsheim factory is reopened
1921
Ettore's cars finish first through fourth at Brescia Grand Prix
1924
Ettore designs Type 35, considered a "mechanical and aesthetic tour de force;" it wins over 1,000 races until 1930
1929
First Royale is built, the largest and most expensive car ever made at that time
1931
Type 51 is introducedthe last Bugatti race car made in quantity
1934
Molsheim factory begins making its most commercially successful model, the Type 57, building 680 between 1934 and 1940; Jean
designs the most desired version of the car, the Atlantic
1935
Carlo's wife Therese Lorioli dies
1936
Jean becomes effective chief at the Molsheim factory after workers strike; Ettore and family move to Paris
c.1937
Carlo moves to Molsheim; Type 57 Tank car wins at Le Mans Grand Prix
1939
Jean dies in a test-drive crash, trying to avoid a postman on a bicycle; war erupts again
1940
Carlo dies at age 84
1947
Ettore wins court battle to retain ownership of Molsheim, but dies in a coma in Paris without learning he had "won his last race"
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