Chronology of Benjamin Franklin

Chronology of Benjamin Franklin. . , 1706 Born at Boston, January 17. , 1723 Removed to Philadelphia. , 1729 Editor of Pennsylvania Gazette. , 1730 Appointed Public Printer. , 1731 Founded the Philadelphia Library. , 1736 Organized the first Philadelphia Fire Company. , 1737 Appointed Postmaster of Philadelphia. , 1738 Member of the Provincial Assembly. , 1741 Established first American Magazine. , 1742 Invented the Franklin Open Stove. , 1743 Founded the American Philosophical Society , 1749 Projected University of Pennsylvania. , 1751 Founded the Pennsylvania Hospital. , 1752 First to utilize electricity. , 1753 Deputy Postmaster General for the Colonies. , 1754 Delegate to Congress at Albany. , 1756 Colonel of Provincial Militia. , 1757-70 Agent to Great Britain for Pennsylvania, Georgia, New Jersey and Massachusetts. , 1764 Speaker of Pennsylvania Assembly. , 1769 President of American Philosophical Society. , 1775 Delegate to the Continental Congress, Chairman of the Committee of "Safety." Proposed "Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union." Postmaster General of the Colonies. , 1776 Signed the Declaration of Independence. President of Constitutional Convention of Pennsylvania. Commissioner to the Court of France. , 1778 negotiated Treaties of Amity and Commerce and of Alliance with France. Minister Plenipotentiary to France. , 1783 Signed Treaty of Amity and Commerce with Sweden. Signed Treaty of Peace with Great Britain. , 1785 Signed Treaty of Amity and Commerce with Prussia. President of the Provincial Council. , 1787 Member of Constitutional Convention of the United States. , 1790 Died at Philadelphia, April 17.