This date reflects the "new" style Gregorian calendar. Britain and its colonies switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar during Franklin's lifetime, in Under the Julian calendar, Franklin's birth was recorded as January 6, Podcast Mount Vernon Everywhere!
Learn More. Notes 1. Back to Main menu Center for Digital History. Metro Area. His father was Josiah Franklin, soap and candle maker. His mother was Abiah Folger, a home maker. Franklin was raised as a Presbyterian. His father, Josiah Franklin, emigrated from England in He had 7 children with his first wife, when she died he married Abiah Folger and had 10 more children, a total of 17 in which Benjamin was the 15 th and youngest son.
Boston Latin School is the oldest school in America. It was founded April 23, At 8 years old young Benjamin Franklin started attending South Grammar School Boston Latin showing early talent moving from the middle of the class to the top of it within a year. He showed great talent for writing and little for arithmetic. Young Franklin loved reading; he would borrow books from friends and save every penny to buy books.
When he was 16 he became a vegetarian partly because he did not like to eat anything that was killed and partly to save money to buy books.
He read voraciously trying to improve his writing style, grammar and eloquence. He prepared his own meals, and mentions eating boiled potatoes, rice, hasty pudding, bread, raisins, and water. Quickly finishing his simple meals gave Ben more time for reading. He later gave up vegetarianism; during the voyage from Boston to Philadelphia he ate fish. Did Benjamin Franklin have a dog?
Ben's son William apparently owned a Newfoundland dog, name unknown. Someone writing to Franklin comments that "nothing shall tempt me to forget your Newfoundland Dog. It indicates that a Madame De Boulainvilliers returned the dog to Franklin; it seems the dog had strayed.
These letters, dated and , are both from Franklin's time in Paris. Was Benjamin Franklin musical? Benjamin Franklin played several musical instruments, including the violin, harp, and guitar. He also composed a quartet and built his own glass armonica.
This simple instrument was played by touching the edge of the spinning glass with dampened fingers. In a letter to his daughter, Benjamin Franklin wrote:. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his Living honestly. You may have seen him perched on some dead tree near the river, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the labor of the Fishing Hawk; and when that diligent Bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the Eagle pursues him and takes it from him.
Besides he is a rank coward: The little King Bird not bigger than a Sparrow attacks him boldly and drives him out of the district. He is therefore by no means a proper emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati of America who have driven all the King birds from our country I am on this account not displeased that the figure is not known as a Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey.
For the truth the Turkey is in comparison a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America. When did Benjamin Franklin die? Benjamin Franklin died at age 84 on April 17, , in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was born an Englishman and died an American. The cause of death was complications from pleurisy. Where is Benjamin Franklin buried? Benjamin Franklin is buried in the cemetery of Christ Church, Philadelphia, next to his wife, Deborah.
Is Benjamin Franklin on any American money? On the back is an illustration of Independence Hall. What else is Benjamin Franklin known for?
Did Benjamin Franklin discover electricity? Electrical forces had been recognized for more than a thousand years, and scientists had worked extensively with static electricity. Franklin proved the connection between lightning and electricity in his famous kite experiment. Yes, according to an account written by his contemporary, a British scientist named Joseph Priestley.
Franklin himself wrote about the experiment in the Pennsylvania Gazette—even giving directions for re-creating it. Franklin wanted to prove that lightning was a form of electricity, so he flew a kite with a key attached during a thunderstorm in June While he was abroad, the British government began, in the mids, to impose a series of regulatory measures to assert greater control over its American colonies.
In , Franklin testified in the British Parliament against the Stamp Act of , which required that all legal documents, newspapers, books, playing cards and other printed materials in the American colonies carry a tax stamp. Although the Stamp Act was repealed in , additional regulatory measures followed, leading to ever-increasing anti-British sentiment and eventual armed uprising in the American colonies. In , he was part of the five-member committee that helped draft the Declaration of Independence , in which the 13 American colonies declared their freedom from British rule.
As minister to France starting in , Franklin helped negotiate and draft the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War. In , Franklin left France and returned once again to Philadelphia. In , he was a Pennsylvania delegate to the Constitutional Convention. At the end of the convention, in September , he urged his fellow delegates to support the heavily debated new document.
The U. Franklin died a year later, at age 84, on April 17, , in Philadelphia. In his will, he left money to Boston and Philadelphia, which was later used to establish a trade school and a science museum and fund scholarships and other community projects. More than years after his death, Franklin remains one of the most celebrated figures in U.
But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present. He only had two years of formal education. The man considered the most brilliant American of his age rarely saw the inside of a classroom. Franklin spent just two years attending Boston Latin School and a private academy before joining the family candle and soap making While his support for protective tariffs led to rising prices for consumers and arguably paved Franklin Pierce , the son of a onetime governor of New Hampshire, entered politics at a young age.
He served as speaker of the state legislature before winning election to the U. House of Representatives in
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