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The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

By Amandeep Prasankumar

  • Franklin is born in Boston, Massachusetts

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    Ben Franklin is apprenticed to his brother, James Franklin, and runs away to Philadelphia

  • Franklin purchases the Pennsylvania Gazette

  • Franklin marries Deborah Read Rogers

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    Poor Richard's Almanack is published by Benjamin Franklin

  • Franklin invents Franklin Stove

  • Franklin retires from printing (The Almanack is still published)

  • Franklin helps to found the University of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia city hospital, invents the lightning rod, and publishes "Experiments and Observations on Electricity"

  • Battle of Fort Duquesne

  • Franklin represents Pennsylvania at the Albany Congress

  • French and Indian war begins

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    French and Indian war

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    Franklin is Pennsylvania's agent in London

  • 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    Sugar Act (1764), Stamp Act (1765), Stamp Act repealed (1766), Townshend Acts (1767)

  • Boston Massacre

  • Death of Franklin's wife

  • Intolerable Acts

  • Franklin is elected as Pennsylvania Delegate to the Second Continental Congress

  • The American Revolution begins, and Washington is appointed general of the Continental Army

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    American Revolution

  • Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense, and Franklin and four other delegates are elected to draft the Declaration of Independence.

  • Benjamin Franklin plus four other delegates draft the Declaration of Independence, and Franklin travels to france as an american commissioner.

  • Washington crosses the Delaware River

  • France becomes allied with America

  • Franklin is appointed US plenipotentiary to France, and signs treaties with France

  • Franklin invents Bifocals

  • The revolution ends, and Franklin is appointed to negotiate peace with Britain

  • Franklin signs the Treaty of Paris

  • Franklin leaves France and is elected President of the executive council of Pennsylvania

  • Washington becomes President

  • Franklin signs anti-slavery petition to Congress, and dies later that year.