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Benjamin Franklin Timeline
(1706-1790)
(Born, in Boston, Massachusetts ) january. 17, 1706
(Apprenticed as a printer to his brother James Franklin) ( 1718-1723)
Moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ( 1723)
Worked in London, England, as a journeyman printer (1724- 1726)
Founded the Junto, a debating club, in Philadelphia (1727)
Purchased the Pennsylvania Gazette (1729)
Began his common-law marriage with Deborah Read Rogers (c. 1708-1774) ( 1. September, 1730)
Established the Library Company of Philadelphia
Son William Franklin was probably born this year (1731)
Published Poor Richard’s Almanack (1732- 1758)
Son Francis Folger Franklin born (d. 1736) (October, 1732)
Clerk, Pennsylvania Assembly (1736- 1751)
Appointed postmaster of Philadelphia (1737)
Invented the Franklin stove (1740)
Proposed formation of the American Philosophical Society (1743)
Daughter Sarah “Sally” Franklin Bache was born (d. 1808) (September 1743)
Retired from the printing business (1748)
Helped found the Academy for Education of Youth (now the University of Pennsylvania) and the Philadelphia City Hospital
Published Experiments and Observations on Electricity. Elected to Pennsylvania Assembly; served until 1764
(1751)
Appointed joint deputy postmaster general of North America (1753)
Represented Pennsylvania at the Albany Congress (1754)
In London, England, as agent of the Pennsylvania Assembly (1757- 1762)
William Temple Franklin, William Franklin’s son (Benjamin’s grandson), was probably born this year (1760)
In London, England, as an agent for Pennsylvania and other colonies (1764- 1775)
Began autobiography (1771)
His Wife Deborah Franklin died (December 19, 1774)
Elected a delegate to the Second Continental Congress (1775)
Mission to Canada (May, 1776)
Served on the Continental Congress committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence (June 1776)
Went to France as an American commissioner; arrived in December (Oct 1776)
Signed treaties with France (6. February, 1778)
Appointed United States minister plenipotentiary in France (September 1778)
They asked Congress to allow him to come home (march, 1781)
Appointed by Congress, with John Jay, Henry Laurens, and John Adams, to the committee to negotiate peace with Great Britain (June 1781)
Signed Treaty of Paris with Great Britain ending the Revolutionary War and recognizing American independence (3 September 1783)
Left France ( July, 1785)
Arrived in Philadelphia (Sept, 1785)
Elected president, of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania; served until 1788. (Oct, 1785)
Represented Pennsylvania at the Constitutional Convention (May-Sept, 1787)
Signed antislavery petition to Congress as president of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery (Feb 1790)
They died in Philadelphia and were interred in the city’s Christ Church Burial Ground (17 .april, 1790)
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