American Founding Father
| Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Saturday Evening Post | 1728 | ||
| Philadelphia Contributionship Insurance | 1752 |
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1706/01/17 | Benjamin Franklin is born on Milk Street, in Boston, Massachusetts. | Born | Newspaper Row | Boston | Benjamin Franklin's Birthday | ||
| 1706/01/17 | Benjamin Franklin is baptized at Old South Meeting House on January 6, 1706 (old style date) when he was just a few hours old. | Faith | Old South Meetinghouse | Boston | |||
| 1716/00/00 | Josiah Franklin welcomes his son Benjamin as his assistant in the tallow-chandlery shop (lost) at the sign of the Blue Ball at the southwest corner of Union and Hanover Streets in Boston. | Home, Work | Blackstone Block Historic District | Boston | |||
| 1728/00/00 | Benjamin Franklin publishes the 'Pennsylvania Gazette', later renamed to 'The Saturday Evening Post' | Founder | |||||
| 1741/00/00 | Benjamin Franklin attends the Boston Latin School (lost) on School Street, but he will dropout before graduating. A statue of Mr Franklin marks the school site at 60 School Street. | Education | Ben Franklin (Greenough) | Old City Hall | Boston | History of the Boston Latin School | |
| 1752/00/00 | Benjamin Franklin theorizes he could extract electricity from a cloud with an iron rod attached to the yet to be completed steeple of Christ Church, Philadelphia. | Inventor | Christ Church | Philadelphia, PA | Invention of the Lightning Rod | ||
| 1754/06/19 | Pennsylvania delegates John Penn, Richard Peters, Isaac Norris and Benjamin Franklin attend the Albany Conference, 19 June 1754 - 11 July 1754. | Pennsylvania Commissioner | Albany Congress | ||||
| 1755/10/16 | Benjamin Franklin writes to Catherine Ray, "Adieu, the Bell rings, and I must go among the Grave ones and talk Politicks." | Work | Independence Hall | Philadelphia, PA | |||
| 1755/10/16 | Benjamin Franklin writes to Catherine Ray, "Adieu, the Bell rings, and I must go among the Grave ones and talk Politicks." | Work | Liberty Bell | Philadelphia, PA | |||
| 1757/00/00 | Franklin makes his home at 36 Craven Street from 1757 to 1762 and from 1764 to 1775 | Home | Benjamin Franklin House | London | |||
| 1762/00/00 | A lightning rod is installed under the personal inspection of Doctor Benjamin Franklin - and is probably the first put up in New Hampshire. | Work | MacPheadris-Warner House | Portsmouth, NH | |||
| 1769/12/21 | Benjamin Franklin publishes "Overservations of the Transit of Venus over the Sun, June 3, 1769, made by Mr Owen Biddle and Mr Joel Bayley, at Lewestown, in Pennsylvania" in the Journal of the Royal Society of London. | Author | Transits of Venus | ||||
| 1775/05/10 | Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia from 5 October 1775 until 12 December 1776 | Represented Pennsylvania | Independence Hall | Philadelphia, PA | Second Continental Congress | ||
| 1775/06/00 | Joseph Galloway urges Benjamin Franklin to reconcile the Colonies with Great Britain. Franklin complains of British corruption and dissipation and declares himself in favour of measures for attaining to Independence. | Visitor | Trevose Manor | Cornwells Heights | |||
| 1775/12/18 | Benjamin Franklin, John Jay and Francis Daymon secretly meet with French emissary Julien Achard de Bonvouloir over 3 nights between December 18 and 27 in the 2nd floor library at Carpenters' Hall, resulting in Frances' support of the colonists. | Vocation | Carpenters' Hall | Philadelphia, PA | 1778 France Enters the American Revolution | ||
| 1776/00/00 | Franklin Commission visits Fort Crown Point. | Diplomat | Fort Crown Point | Crown Point | Franklin's Mission to Canada | ||
| 1776/00/00 | Ben Franklin leaves his English home to move back to America. | Home | Benjamin Franklin House | London | |||
| 1776/02/15 | Congress establishes a diplomatic commission consisting of Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Chase and Charles Carroll to persuade the Canada to join the 13 colonies in their struggle with Britain. | Patriot Diplomat | Franklin's Mission to Canada | ||||
| 1776/04/29 | Brigadier General Benedict Arnold welcomes the Franklin Commission to Montreal. | Diplomat | Chateau Ramezay | Montreal | Franklin's Mission to Canada | ||
| 1776/09/11 | Representative for the British Crown, Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, meets with Continental Congress representatives John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Edward Rutledge in a peace conference. | American Representative | Conference House | New York City | |||
| 1776/09/26 | Franklin is named an agent of a diplomatic commission by the Continental Congress. | Patriot Diplomat | |||||
| 1776/09/28 | The Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 is ratified. | Delegate | |||||
| 1776/10/26 | Benjamin Franklin sets sail from Philadelphia for France, to negotiate and secure a formal alliance and treaty. | Patriot Diplomat | |||||
| 1778/02/06 | Negotiated by the Patriots Ben Franklin, Silas Deane and Arthur Lee, the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed at the hotel de Coislin (place de la Concorde). | Patriot Diplomat | Hotel de Coislin | Paris | Treaty of Alliance with France | ||
| 1782/09/27 | Formal peace negotiations to end the American Revolution begin. American representatives John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay and Henry Laurens discuss terms with British delegates David Hartley and Richard Oswald. | American Delegate | Treaty of Paris (1783) | ||||
| 1783/09/03 | John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay meet at David Hartley's hotel and sign the Treaty of Paris in his room. Hotel d'York, 56 Rue Jacob, Paris, France. | American Delegate | Treaty of Paris (1783) | Hotel d'York Building | Rue Jacob, Paris | 1781 American Revolution - After Yorktown | |
| 1790/04/17 | Benjamin Franklin dies from pleuritic attack at home in Philadelphia at age 84. He is buried in Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia. | Died | Christ Church Burial Ground | Philadelphia, PA |
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