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Benjamin Franklin 1710-1800

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  • Bejamin Franklin was born

    Benjamin Franklin was born on Milk Street, in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17, 1706

  • Benjamin Franklin Runs away from home

    At age 17, Benjamin Franklin ran away from his home all the way to New York, then to Philadephia.

  • Benjamin Franklin returns home

    Benjamin returns home to Boston to try and borrow money from his father to start print shop but his father turned him down.

  • Ben Franklin publishes his first pamphlet.

    iIt was titled "A Dissertation upon Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain". This same year he left Thomas Denham's office to work for a bigger one owned by John Watts.

  • Benjamin Franklin returns to Philadelphia

    Benjamin returned to Philadelphia to work for Thomas Denham. Thomas was the one who loaned him the money that made him able to return to Phialdephia. Franklin worked as a bookkeeper and shopkeeper in that store.

  • Benjamin Franklin Has an Affair

    Ths is the year that Franklin had an affair with a woman that is not known and that affair resulted in his son William's birth. William's mother gave birth to him some time in 1728.

  • Benjamin Franklin Creates a Print Shop

    Benjamin Franklin started a Philadelphia printing partnership with Hugh Meredith. He rented a building that provided both a home and printshop.

  • Benjamin Franklin Becomes Publisher of The Pennsylvania Gazette

    Benjamin Franklin purchased The Pennsylvania Gazette from Samuel Keimer and became the lead publisher at that establishment.

  • Ben Franklin elected printer

    Ben Franklin is elected offical printer for Phialdephia.

  • Benjamin Franklin founds first Library

    Benjamin Franklin drew up the Library Company's articles of association on July 1st. The Library Company became the first lending library in the country but at the time it was still private.

  • Benjamin Franklin Retires

    Benjamin became a soldier in the PA militiary.

  • Benjamin Franklin Experiments with Kite

    This is the famous year in which Benjamin Franklin performed the kite experiment.

  • Benjamin Frankliln signs The Decleration of Independence

    Benjamin Franklin served on committee to draft the Declaration of Independence and signed it. He also went to France as one of three American commissioners to negotiate a treaty

  • Benjamin Franklin Signs French Alliance

    Benjamin Franklin negotiated treaties of commerce and defense with France Appointed sole power to take independent action.
    in France.

  • Benjamin Franklin writes Anti Slavery Treaty

    Benjamin Franklin wrote the anti-slavery treaty and became president of the Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery

  • Benjamin Dies

    Benjamin Franklin died in his sleep in Phialdelphia at 84 years old.