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Thomas Paine was born on January 29 in Thetford, England
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Thomas Paine Timespan
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Thomas enrolls at Thetford Grammar School.He leaves school at the age of 12, briefly apprentices to his father
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Thomas Paine goes to sea, serving on-board a privateer, the King of Prussia
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He marries Mary Lambert on 27 September, she dies within the year
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He works as a excise (tax) officer in England
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Paine marries Elizabeth Ollive on March
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The case of the Officers of Excise was published
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He meets Benjamin Franklin, emigrates to England; Legally separated with his wife Elizabeth
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African Slavery in America was published; co-editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine; helps found one of the first abolitionst societies
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Common Sense was published, Paine donates most of the proceeds to the revolutionary army, begins The Crisis
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Appointed Secretary of the committee of Foreign Affairs in congress
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Resigns as Secretary of the Committee of Foreign Affairs in Congress; is appointed him clerk of the state assembly
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Thomas and John Laurens arrived in France to seek assistance for the war., They return to America in August, Thomas also organized the Bank of North America to raise money to feed and clothe the army.
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The British Troops in New York dparted from Manhattan, Thomas Paine join the marching of Washington troops down Broadway to Celebrate
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Thomas Publishes 'The Rights of Man'. It is a radical work.
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Thomas becomes an honorary French citizen and is elected to the Nationak Covention
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Thomas Paine 'Age of Reason' is published. This attack on organized religion brings him many enemies
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Paine meets Napoleon who claims he sleeps with a copy of Rights of Man under his pillow. He told Thomas "a statue of gold should be erected to you in every city in the universe"
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During the summer, Thomas moves to stay at the house of Cornelius Ryder. His health is deteriorating
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Thomas Paine dies at age 72. He is buried in the grounds of his farm in New Rochelle, New York