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.