Benjamin Franklin Timeline English 9 project by DANIEL ALVARADO ALCANTAR https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr Benjamin Franklin's life en-us 2022-04-06 18:02:16 UTC 2022-04-08 04:25:06 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f1fa-1f1f8.png Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on Jan 17, 1706 dalvarad0247 https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133163540 Benjamin Franklin was an American politician, polymath, scientist, and inventor. He is considered one of the Founding Fathers of the U.S. Born: January 17, 1706, Milk Street, Boston, Massachusetts.]]> 2022-04-06 18:02:55 UTC https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133163540 In 1717, Franklin created his first invention a pair of Swim fins. dalvarad0247 https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133164191 An avid swimmer and champion of its various health benefits from a very young age, Franklin invented the first pair of swim fins in 1717 at the age of 11. Unlike the modern fins swimmers use today, Franklin created his fins to attach to his hands.]]> 2022-04-06 18:03:17 UTC https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133164191 1718, Franklin is apprenticed to Brother James at the printing shop dalvarad0247 https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133164581 Benjamin Franklin, the Printer. And Benjamin did make it on his own. Eventually he opened his own printing shop in Philadelphia. Benjamin's shop printed all kinds of things including Pennsylvania's currency (money), his own newspaper, the Pennsylvania Gazette, and his Poor Richard's Almanac.]]> 2022-04-06 18:03:32 UTC https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133164581 1724, Franklin moves to London. dalvarad0247 https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133164946 The first time Benjamin Franklin went to England was in 1724 at the age of 18. He was going to by printing equipment to open up his own print shop and possibly start a newspaper.]]> 2022-04-06 18:03:45 UTC https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133164946 1727,Franklin formed the Junto club. dalvarad0247 https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133165499 In the fall of 1727 Benjamin Franklin and a group of friends founded the Junto Club also known as the Leather Apron Club. The 12 members were tradesmen and artisans who met Friday evenings to discuss issues of morals, politics or natural philosophy. The club lasted 38 years.]]> 2022-04-06 18:03:58 UTC https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133165499 1728, Franklin opens printing office in Philadelphia PA. dalvarad0247 https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133165957 Franklin's Printing House, In 1728, when Franklin was 22 years old, he entered a partnership with Hugh Meredith, a co-worker at Keimer's Printing Shop.]]> 2022-04-06 18:04:13 UTC https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133165957 1732, publishes the first edition of Poor Richard's Almanack. dalvarad0247 https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133166450 On December 19, 1732, Benjamin Franklin of Philadelphia first published Poor Richard's Almanack. The book, filled with proverbs preaching industry and prudence, was published continuously for 25 years and became one of the most popular publications in colonial America, selling an average of 10,000 copies a year.]]> 2022-04-06 18:04:30 UTC https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133166450 1731,Franklin Found the first public library. dalvarad0247 https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133167378 The Library Company of Philadelphia, founded in 1731 by Benjamin Franklin and a group of his friends, became the first American subscription library. The Library Company, while founded as a membership library, did allow members to borrow books, and so may have been the first truly public library.]]> 2022-04-06 18:05:00 UTC https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133167378 1730,Franklin got married to Deborah Read. dalvarad0247 https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133167773 On September 1, 1730 Benjamin Franklin married Deborah Read. They entered a common-law agreement which protected them from bigamy if her runaway husband returned. Deborah assisted in the business by folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for paper makers.]]> 2022-04-06 18:05:15 UTC https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133167773 1737,Appointed postmaster in Philadelphia. dalvarad0247 https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133169117 His most notable achievement probably was the appointment of Benjamin Franklin as postmaster of Philadelphia in 1737. Franklin was only 31 years old at the time, the struggling printer and publisher of The Pennsylvania Gazette. Later he would become one of the most popular men of his age.]]> 2022-04-06 18:06:00 UTC https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133169117 1741, Franklin publishes The General Magazine. dalvarad0247 https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133169435 Franklin became a successful newspaper editor and printer in Philadelphia, the leading city in the colonies, publishing the Pennsylvania Gazette at age 23.]]> 2022-04-06 18:06:12 UTC https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133169435 1748, Franklin retires from printing. dalvarad0247 https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133169730 As of 1748 Franklin had “retired” from printing to concentrate on his scientific pursuits, while maintaining a financial interest in the business with his new partner, David Hall. Instead, Franklin found himself increasingly involved in civic affairs.]]> 2022-04-06 18:06:22 UTC https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133169730 1752, Franklin publishes a book on Electricity in London. dalvarad0247 https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133170288 Benjamin Franklin,Benjamin Franklin and Electricity. His idea was about electricity and lightning. Franklin noticed several similarities between the two: They both created light, made loud crashes when they exploded, were attracted to metal, had a particular smell, and more.]]> 2022-04-06 18:06:44 UTC https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133170288 In 1752, Franklin conducted his farmer's experiment Kite experiment. dalvarad0247 https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133170616 Franklin's experiment demonstrated the connection between lightning and electricity. To dispel another myth, Franklin's kite was not struck by lightning. If it had been, he probably would have been electrocuted, experts say. Instead, the kite picked up the ambient electrical charge from the storm.]]> 2022-04-06 18:06:56 UTC https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133170616 1753, Franklin receives honorary degrees from Harvard and Yale. dalvarad0247 https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133171042 Yale honored Franklin with the honorary degree of Master in Arts in 1753 for his scientific accomplishments. Starting in 1954, Yale became home to the grandest collection of Franklin Papers, or documents and images related to Benjamin Franklin, in existence.]]> 2022-04-06 18:07:10 UTC https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133171042 1754, Franklin publishes Join or Die Cartoon. dalvarad0247 https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133171385 Join, or Die was a political cartoon and woodcut created by Benjamin Franklin in 1754. It was designed to unite the American colonies against the French and their Native allies at the start of the French and Indian War. It is thought to be the first political cartoon that advocated unification of the colonies.]]> 2022-04-06 18:07:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133171385 In 1757, Franklin goes to England as a colonial representative. dalvarad0247 https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133171968
In 1757, Franklin traveled to London as a representative of the Pennsylvania Assembly, to which he was elected in 1751. Over several years, he worked to settle a tax dispute and other issues involving descendants of William Penn (1644-1718), the owners of the colony of Pennsylvania.]]> 2022-04-06 18:07:38 UTC https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133171968 1757, Street lighting was first introduced in the United States by Benjamin Franklin. dalvarad0247 https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133172294 1757: Street lighting was first introduced in the United States by Benjamin Franklin who iterated on the glass globes used in London with his own version that was eventually approved by the Pennsylvania Assembly circa 1757.]]> 2022-04-06 18:07:50 UTC https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133172294 1761, Franklin completed his glass armonica. dalvarad0247 https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133172760 Ben Franklin completed his glass armonica in 1761. (Its name is derived from the Italian word for harmony.) He didn't simply refine the idea of musical glasses, which were played much like children at the dinner table play them today, with notes being determined by the amount of water in the glass.]]> 2022-04-06 18:08:05 UTC https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133172760 1768, Franklin wages press crusade in London on behalf of colonies, Prints maps showing the Gulf Stream, based on his own temperature readings and observations. dalvarad0247 https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133174466 Benjamin Franklin was the first person to chart the Gulf Stream. Alexander Agassiz, a preeminent oceanographer of the 19th century, attributed the first scientific basis for exploring the Gulf Stream to American statesman Benjamin Franklin.]]> 2022-04-06 18:08:57 UTC https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133174466 In 1775, Franklin was elected to the Second Continental Congress. which Proposes the first articles of Confederation. dalvarad0247 https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133174884 Benjamin Franklin's Proposed Plan of Confederation, 1775
Shortly after the revolutionary war began at Concord and Lexington, Benjamin Franklin submitted this plan for a united colonial confederation or American republic to the Continental Congress on July 21, 1775.]]> 2022-04-06 18:09:12 UTC https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133174884 In 1776, Franklin helps to draft the Declaration of Independence. dalvarad0247 https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133175152 In June 1776 a motion was made in Congress for a Declaration of Independence. Franklin was part of the five-member committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence, other members were John Adams of Massachusetts, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York and Roger Sherman of Connecticut.]]> 2022-04-06 18:09:23 UTC https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133175152 In 1778, Franklin negotiates a treaty of commerce with France. dalvarad0247 https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133175695 On February 6, 1778, France and the fledgling United States of America signed the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance in Paris, France with Franklin's help. The Treaty of Amity and Commerce recognized the United States as an independent nation and promoted trade between France and the United States.]]> 2022-04-06 18:09:42 UTC https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133175695 1783,Franklin invented Bifocal glasses. dalvarad0247 https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133176761 Benjamin Franklin invented “bifocals” and assumed that meant “glasses.” While Franklin did indeed invent bifocals in 1779, he did not actually invent glasses themselves – he merely created a version with multiple lenses that could help people with more more vision problems.]]> 2022-04-06 18:10:23 UTC https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133176761 1787, Franklin was a Pennsylvania delegate to the Constitutional Convention. dalvarad0247 https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133177232 In 1787, he was a Pennsylvania delegate to the Constitutional Convention. (The 81-year-old Franklin was the convention's oldest delegate.) At the end of the convention, in September 1787, he urged his fellow delegates to support the heavily debated new document.]]> 2022-04-06 18:10:41 UTC https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133177232 Benjamin Franklin dies in Pennsylvania on April 17, 1790. dalvarad0247 https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133177595 Benjamin Franklin was the only Founding Father to have signed all three documents that freed America from Britain, the Declaration of Independence, The Treaty of Paris and the United States Constitution. He convinced the French to financially help America against Britain during the American Revolutionary War.]]> 2022-04-06 18:10:55 UTC https://padlet.com/dalvarad0247/dec1iv03vlhvcqfr/wish/2133177595