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- President of Pennsylvania (1785–1788)
- Ambassador to France (1779–1785)
- Second Continental Congress (1775–1776)
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Founding of the
United States |
- Join, or Die. (1754 political cartoon)
- Albany Plan of Union
- Hutchinson Letters Affair
- Committee of Secret Correspondence
- Committee of Five
- Declaration of Independence
- Model Treaty
- Franco-American alliance
- Treaty of Amity and Commerce
- Treaty of Alliance
- Staten Island Peace Conference
- 1776 Pennsylvania Constitution
- Libertas Americana
- Treaty of Paris, 1783
- Delegate, 1787 Constitutional Convention
- Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly
- Postmaster General
- Founding Fathers
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Inventions,
other events |
- Franklin's electrostatic machine
- Bifocals
- Franklin stove
- Glass armonica
- Gulf Stream exploration, naming, and chart
- Lightning rod
- Kite experiment
- Pay it forward
- Associators
- Junto club
- American Philosophical Society
- Library Company of Philadelphia
- Pennsylvania Hospital
- Academy and College of Philadelphia
- University of Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia Contributionship
- Union Fire Company
- Early American currency
- Continental Currency dollar coin
- Fugio cent
- United States Postal Service
- Street lighting
- President, Pennsylvania Abolition Society
- Master, Les Neuf Sœurs
- Gravesite
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| Writings |
- The Papers of Benjamin Franklin
- Founders Online
- Silence Dogood letters (1722)
- A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain (1725)
- The Busy-Body columns (1729)
- The Pennsylvania Gazette (1729–1790)
- Early American publishers and printers
- Poor Richard's Almanack (1732–1758)
- The Drinker's Dictionary (1737)
- "Advice to a Friend on Choosing a Mistress" (1745)
- "The Speech of Polly Baker" (1747)
- Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc. (1751)
- Experiments and Observations on Electricity (1751)
- Birch letters (1755)
- The Way to Wealth (1758)
- Pennsylvania Chronicle (1767)
- Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One (1773)
- Proposed alliance with the Iroquois (1775)
- A Letter to a Royal Academy (1781)
- Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America (1784)
- "The Morals of Chess" (1786)
- An Address to the Public (1789)
- A Plan for Improving the Condition of the Free Blacks (1789)
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1771–1790, pub. 1791)
- Bagatelles and Satires (pub. 1845)
- Franklin as a journalist
- Franklin's phonetic alphabet
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| Legacy | |
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| Related |
- Age of Enlightenment
- American Enlightenment
- The New-England Courant
- The American Museum magazine
- American Revolution
- Syng inkstand
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| Family |
- Deborah Read (wife)
- William Franklin (son)
- Francis Franklin (son)
- Sarah Franklin Bache (daughter)
- William Franklin (grandson)
- Benjamin F. Bache (grandson)
- Louis F. Bache (grandson)
- Richard Bache Jr. (grandson)
- Andrew Harwood (great-grandson)
- Alexander Bache (great-grandson)
- Josiah Franklin (father)
- James Franklin (brother)
- Jane Mecom (sister)
- Mary Morrell Folger (grandmother)
- Peter Folger (grandfather)
- Richard Bache (son-in-law)
- Ann Smith Franklin (sister-in-law)
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