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Born in Boston, the youngest son of Josiah and Abiah (Folger) Franklin
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Benjamin Franklin's life from birth till death
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Ben invents swim fins at the age of 10 to swim faster
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Benjamin Franklin Finished formal schoolling.
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Benjamin Franklin worked for his brother James, as a printers apprentice.
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Fanklin moved away from home into a boarding house
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James Franklin starts publishing "The New England Courant" with the help of benjamin
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He is motivated by a distaste for flesh, but also because he can save money and buy more books
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Takes over the publishing of the Courant after brother James is jailed due to contempt charges.
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Runs away from apprenticeship, goes to New York and then to Philadelphia, where he gains employment as a printer.
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Franklin returns home to Boston to try and borrow money from his father to start a print shop, he was denied.
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He returns to Philadelphia and courts Deborah Read.
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Under encouragement from PA Governor William Keith travels to London in order buy printing equipment. Keith's letters of credit for him never materialized and Franklin is stranded in London. Remains in London working as a printer working for Samuel Palmer.
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Franklin Publishes his first pamphlet: "A Dissertation upon Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain"
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Franklin establishes a Philadelphia printing partnership with Hugh Meredith; rents a building that serves as home and printshop
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He Writes a pamphlet entitled "The Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency"
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He purchases The Pennsylvania Gazette from Samuel Keimer and became owner/publisher.
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Franklin buys out his partner to become sole owner of his comany
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He was elected the official printer for Pennsylvania
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Franklin marries Deborah Read Rogers
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Due to all his thinking, Franklin was able to think of the First lending library
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Francis Folger was born to Benjamin franklin and Deborah Read Franklin
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Franklin publishes the first edition of "Poor Richard's Almanack"
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Franklin's son, Francis Floger, who was 4 years old died of smallpox
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The Union Fire Company which organizes and trains teams of firemen.
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Franklin begins service as postmaster of Philadelphia
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Benjamin Franklin's only daughter, Sarah (sally) Franklin, was born.
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Franklin publishes A Proposal for Promoting Useful Knowledge, leading to the formation of the American
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Franklin retires from the printing business at the age of forty-two
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Franklin invented the Lightning rod to divert lightning from buildings during thunderstorms.
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Franklin performs legendary kite and key experiment, confirming his theory that electricity existed in
thunderclouds in the form of lightning -
Appointed joint deputy postmaster general of North America
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Franklin drafts the Albany Plan of Union, urging the colonies to form a united defense against threats
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Franklin publishes in The Pennsylvania Gazette the “Join, or Die” cartoon, America’s first symbol of the
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A Way to Wealth, a collection of Franklin’s Poor Richard’s writings is published
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He was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from Oxford University, England
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Elected president of the American Philosophical Society
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He begins writing his Autobiography
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Franklin's wife, Deborah Read Franklin, dies at the age of 66
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Fraklin was appointed commissioner to the court of France and arrives in Paris to get to work
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Franklin helps negotiate and signs the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between America and France,
securing critical support from the French in the form of loans, military supplies, and troops -
which officially ending the Revolutionary War
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After his years of service in France he decides to go back to Philadelphia
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This is for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. Serves as
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Benjamin Franklin died at the age of 84
