The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

By jharris12

  • Benjamin is born

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    Benjamin Dies

  • Final formal year of schoolingHeard Increase Mather preach

  • Apprenticed to his brother James, a printer.Blackbeard the Pirate is captured; Franklin writes a ballad on the occasion

  • 1725 Publishes his first pamphlet: "A Dissertation upon Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain"

  • 1727 .Helps to establish the Junto, a a society of young men who met together on Friday evenings for "self-improvement, study, mutual aid, and conviviality."

  • Library Company of Philadelpia

  • Brother James Franklin dies; Benjamin sends his widow 500 copies of Poor Richard for free so she can make money by selling them

  • Prints "A Treaty of Friendship held with the Chiefs of the Six Nations at Philadelphia"

  • Death of Josiah Franklin, Benjamin's father

  • Franklin writes "The Plain Truth," a pamphlet arguing for better military preparedness in PA. In the pamphlet is the first political cartoon published in America.

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    Elected as a Pennsylvania delegate of Pennsylvania to 2nd Continental Congress; serves as chairman of Pennsylvania Committee of SafetyElected Postmaster General of the Colonies

  • Signs French Alliance

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    1779-81 Appointed to negotiate peace treaty with England.

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    Signed Peace TreatyInvented bifocals

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    1787 Signs the United States Constitution1789 Writes anti-slavery treatiseHe becomes president of the Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery

  • 1790, April 17, dies in Philadelphia at the age of 84. 20,000 mourners attend his funeral at Philadelphia's Christ Church Burial Ground.