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He was born Bosten Massachusetts.
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His final year of schooling.
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Benjamin Franklin was an anprenticed to his brother James as a printer.
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Moved away from home into a boarding house.
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Stopped attending church so he could use Sunday to study.
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Brother James Franklin starts publishing The New England Courant
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Benjamin Franklin becomes a vegetarian.
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First son and his name is Francis Folger.
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Franklin started printing America's first German-language newspaper, Philadelphische Zeitung, which soon failed.
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Takes over the publishing of the Courant after brother James is in jail.
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Takes lodging with John Read whose daughter Deborah will become Franklin's wife.
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Francis Folger Franklin is baptized at the Anglican Christ Church.
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Brother James Franklin dies; Benjamin sends his widow 500 copies of Poor Richard for free so she can make money by selling them
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Son Francis (Franky) Folger dies at age 4 of smallpox
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Franklin's house got robbed
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Daughter Sally born and baptized at Christ Church
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Death of Josiah Franklin, Benjamin's father
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Received honorary degrees from Harvard and Yale.
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Proposes plan of colonial union at Albany Congress
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In England as agent for Pennsylvania Assembly, Massachusetts, Georgia, New Jersey
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Mapped Postal routes in the colonies. Invents glass armonica
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Charts Gulf Stream.
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Named Colonial Agent for Georgia.
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Elected Colonial Agent for Massachusetts.
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Begins writing his Autobiography.
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Deborah Read, his wife of 44 years, dies in Philadelphia
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Signs French Alliance
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At Aril 19, Benjamin Franklin dies.
