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Childhood
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Creator/BenjaminFranklin. Ben Franklin was born on October 18 1785. He is one of seventeen other brothers and sisters and one of ten born to his fathers second wife Abiah Folder and their youngest son on milk street in Boston Massachusetts. He stopped former schooling and started working full time in his fathers cash candle and soap shop at the age of 10 -
Silence Dogood
When he was 12, Ben had started working as a apprentice to his older brother James Franklin who was a printer. Three years later, when Ben was 15, James founded The New-England Courant which became the first independent newspaper in the colonies. When Ben was told he couldn't have his letters published he adopted the persona Silence Dogood whos letters did get published. After his brother was arrested by the governor Ben took over the Courant leaving his apprenticeship which made him a fugitive. -
Young love?
http://thefederalist.com/2016/03/18/meet-revolutionary-woman-deborah-read-franklin/. When Ben was 17 in London he met 15 year old Deborah Read and then proposed to her. Ben was shot down by Deborah's mom because Ben was not staying in London. Deborah legally married a man named John Rogers who disappeared in history with Deborah's dowry. Ben returned to London in 1730 and the two got married and had three kids two of which died at birth but their daughter Sarah Franklin lived. -
Off to London
https://hogsheadwine.wordpress.com/tag/historyofchhautbrion. When Ben was 17 he ran off to Philadelphia for the same reason we all move away, to start a clean slate and while their the governor, who at the time was a man named Sir William Keith, asked him to sail to London for printing supplies. While their he started a print shop and then returned to Philadelphia the next year. -
He had a son
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Franklin. In 1730 Ben publicly .announced that he had a son named William Franklin but was deemed illegitimate. he was born out of wedlock ,not married, and raised in his house. The mother to Will is to this day still unknown -
Poor Richerds Almanac
At this date Ben has published the book Poor Richards Almanac. This was a book published yearly with weather forecasts, house ideas and puzzles of all kinds. He first published the book under the name Richard Sanders and continued to publish the book every year with 10,000 copies printed yearly this continued for 25 years -
Ben the Freemason
http://www.crystalinks.com/freemasons.html. At this time Ben has been a freemason for three years and is now the grandmaster in Pennsylvania. The freemasons was a kind of like a brotherhood each member dedicated themselves to helping people and their home. Ben managed to get one of the highest honors within three years and was recognized that way until the day he died. He also wrote a book about the freemasons and how they lived. Later in time he wrote a letter to his mother that read -
The kite flight
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/franklin-flies-kite-during-thunderstorm. On this day Ben tied a key onto a kite and flew it in a thunderstorm. Shockingly he felt a jolt in his fingers then he put two and two together and discovered that lightning was electricity. He soon invented the lightning rod to protect ships and houses. He also put one on a bell to make a storm warning. -
The glass Armonica
https://hauntedpalaceblog.wordpress.com/2013/11/24/celestial-madness-the-glass-harmonica/. Not many people are familiar with Ben as a music enthusiast but he was interested in it. He played viola da gamba, a string instrument, and composed music a lot. He also invented the Glass Armonica. This instrument was played by both Mozart and Beethoven . -
The declaration
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/benjamin-franklin after his second trip to London Ben returned to Philadelphia right on time for the revolutionary war. The Pennsylvania assembly chose Ben as their delegate. The decision was unanimous and it was a good on because he later drafted the declaration of independence -
A real chess king
Ben started playing chess around 1733 he was one of the first chess player known by name in the colonies. In this date he wrote an essay in the Columbian times called the morals of chess which talked about the game and in this essay he said "The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it, so as to become habits, ready on all occasions. For life is a kind of chess." -
The Death of Ben
http://www.everywhereist.com/ben-franklins-grave-christ-church-burial-ground-philadelphia/. On April 17 1790 Benjamin Franklin died of pleurisy which is a disease that makes your lungs inflamed and causes a lot of pain while breathing. Ben has accomplished a lot in the time he was alive he was a freemason, drafted the declaration of independence, and discovered electricity. After his death, Philadelphia set up a funeral like no other in his name
