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Franklin is born in Boston, Massachusetts
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Ben Franklin is apprenticed to his brother, James Franklin, and runs away to Philadelphia
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Franklin purchases the Pennsylvania Gazette
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Franklin marries Deborah Read Rogers
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Poor Richard's Almanack is published by Benjamin Franklin
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Franklin invents Franklin Stove
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Franklin retires from printing (The Almanack is still published)
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Franklin helps to found the University of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia city hospital, invents the lightning rod, and publishes "Experiments and Observations on Electricity"
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Battle of Fort Duquesne
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Franklin represents Pennsylvania at the Albany Congress
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French and Indian war begins
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French and Indian war
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Franklin is Pennsylvania's agent in London
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French and Indian war ends with peace treaty.
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Franklin is agent for the colonies in London
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Sugar Act (1764), Stamp Act (1765), Stamp Act repealed (1766), Townshend Acts (1767)
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Boston Massacre
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Death of Franklin's wife
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Intolerable Acts
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Franklin is elected as Pennsylvania Delegate to the Second Continental Congress
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The American Revolution begins, and Washington is appointed general of the Continental Army
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American Revolution
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Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense, and Franklin and four other delegates are elected to draft the Declaration of Independence.
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Benjamin Franklin plus four other delegates draft the Declaration of Independence, and Franklin travels to france as an american commissioner.
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Washington crosses the Delaware River
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France becomes allied with America
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Franklin is appointed US plenipotentiary to France, and signs treaties with France
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Franklin invents Bifocals
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The revolution ends, and Franklin is appointed to negotiate peace with Britain
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Franklin signs the Treaty of Paris
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Franklin leaves France and is elected President of the executive council of Pennsylvania
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Washington becomes President
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Franklin signs anti-slavery petition to Congress, and dies later that year.