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Birth
He was born in a Thedford Farm. Father was Joseph Paine -
Marraige
He was married to Mary Lambert. She was an "Orpan of Sandwich". That means that no one was there to provide for her. Her father was an excise officer. -
Fired
Thomas paine was fired from his job as an excise officer for claiming to have inspected goods he did not inspect. -
Second Marriage
At age 34, Thomas marries Elizabeth Olive after his first wife's death during childbirth in 1760. -
Tobbaco Business Failure
Thomas is fired from his job with the excise service for being absent from his post without permission, after distributing his pamphlet in London. His tobacco business has also failed. -
African American Slavery
African Slavery in America published; co-editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine; helps found one of the first abolitionist societies. -
Revolutionary War Begin
Thomas Paine eas mostly related to this event because he helps stop this war towards the end. -
Benjamin Franklin Influency
Franklin has been impressed by Paine's writings and suggests emigration to British Colonial America. -
Common Sense
Thomas Paine's 96-page pamphlet is published. It was widely read and presents the American colonists with a powerful argument for independence from British rule. -
The Crisis Papers
The writings inspired the Americans and tried to stop the British from fighting with the Americans and clarified the issues at stake in the war and denounced the advocates of a negotiated peace. -
End of Revolutionary War
Thomas Paine wasn't present at the ending of Revolutionry War but he mostly caused it. -
Broadway March
As the last of the British troops in New York depart from Manhattan, Washington marches his troops, including Thomas Paine, down Broadway in celebration. -
England Arrival
From Paris he arrived in England, just thirteen years after his departure for Philadelphia. He visited to Thetford to visit his mother, on whom he settled an allowance of nine shillings a week. -
The Rights of Man
Thomas publishes 'The Rights of Man'. It is a incredible work, calling for representative democracy, and proposing Republican government. -
The Rights of Man Part the Second Combining Principle and Practice
It advocates establishing a republic and proposes make poverty less severe through progressive income tax. Its cheap price means it is widely read. -
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Age of Reason
The Age of Reason was published during 1794 and 1795 in 2 parts. This attack on organised religion brings him many enemies. -
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Agarian Justice
This pamphlet he develops the ideas in 'Rights of Man', that land ownership separates most people from their rightful, natural inheritance, and means of independent survival. -
Washington Letter
Convinced that Washington had personally betrayed him by to his action of imprisonment, Thomas Paine writes him an abusive letter, attacking his military reputation and his presidential policy. -
Lousiana Purchase
- Thomas is instrumental in the United States buying the territory of Louisiana.
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Death
Thomas Paine's Death. Nobody attended his funeral except his nieghbors.
