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1. 1705Benjamin Franklin was born on Milk Street in Boston on January 17, 1706 (Old Style January 6, 1705).
2. 1732As a Philadelphia printer he published The Pennsylvania Gazette and, from 1732, Poor Richard's Almanack under the pseudonym Richard Saunders.
3. 1751He was first president of the Academy and College of Philadelphia, opened in 1751, and became deputy postmaster-general for the colonies in 1753.
4. 1752He proposed a kite experiment to prove lightning is electricity, possibly flew his kite in Philadelphia on June 15, 1752, and invented the lightning rod.
5. 1776In June 1776 he joined the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence, which he signed.
6. 1776Sent to France as U.S. commissioner on October 26, 1776, he secured a military alliance in 1778 and signed the 1783 Treaty of Paris.
7. 1785He served as President of Pennsylvania from 1785 to 1788 and signed the U.S. Constitution in 1787.
8. 1790He died of a pleuritic attack at his home in Philadelphia on April 17, 1790, aged 84.