- 17 Jan 1706
- Birth of Benjamin Franklin
- 1725
- A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity
- 1729
- Benjamin Franklin Prints Currency
- 1729
- First Issue of the Pennsylvania Gazette
- 1732
- First Publication of the Poor Richard's Almanac
- 1736
- Benjamin Franklin becomes clerk of the Pennsylvania legislature.
- 1737
- Benjamin Franklin becomes postmaster of Philadelphia.
- Nov 1746
- Franklin Studies Electricity
- 1748
- Benjamin Franklin Retires
- 1749
- Benjamin Franklin is justice of the peace in Philadelphia.
- 1751
- Publication of Experiments and Observations on Electricity
- 1753
- Benjamin Franklin becomes deputy postmaster general, a royal appointment putting him in charge of mail in the northern colonies.
- 1754
- Franklin's Plan of Union
- 1757
- Benjamin Franklin in London
- 1757
- Franklin Writes The Way to Wealth