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Religion was important to many people in the 1700s including Thomas Paine.
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George Washington was born in 1732.
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Thomas Paine was born on Jan. 1737
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Englishman John Wesly and his brotehr Charles found the Methodist Church.
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When he was 6, he attented the loca grammer school.
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He started his own corest bussiness
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His wife and her child died is child birth, gave up Corest bussiness.
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Began his new job in 1764 as an Excisemen in the town Sandwich.
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He lost his job in 1768 because he was accused of stamping
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Started his next tax-collecting job in the town of Lewes
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British explorer captain James Cook leaves England for a three- year exploration of the pacific.
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Was an incident that led to the deaths of five civilians at the hands of British troops on March 5, 1770
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Married Elizabeth Olive in 1771, she is 10 years younger than him.
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The writing was called "The Case of the Officers Exise"
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The tea destryed in the 1773 Boston Tea Party was wirth about $1 million in today's currency. The men who caused this were disgused as Mohawk Indians.
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He and his wife seperated.
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Scottish economist Adam Smith publishes The Wealth of Nations, making the start of modern econmics.
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Thomas Paine published his famous writing "Common Sense"
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Takes a job with the congress
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Joseph Michel and Jacques Etienne montgolfier become the first humanz to fly with their invention of the hot air ballon.
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For about eight months, Paine worked as a sailor.
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John Fitch invents the steamboat.
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The British goverment announces plans to make Austria a penal colony.
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Went back to England, begins a project to buld an iron bridge.
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The Times newspaper in London is founded.
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Visits France after the start of the French Revolution.
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Paine published the first part of the rights of man in Feburary 1791.
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The Austrian composer Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart dies.
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He was chosen to write a new constitution for France.
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Paine was arrested as an enemy of France
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Publishes his last major work "Agrarian Justice"
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Ultraviolet radiation is discovered.
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Comes back to the United States, where he is disliked for his ideas on religion and support of the French Revolution.
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General anesthesia is first used in surgery.
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By spring 1806, he was depressed and began drinking a lot of alcohal and ignored his apperance.
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Louis Braille of France, Invento of a writing system for the blind is born.
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Thomas Paine died on June 8, 1809 in his small rented room just outside New York City.
