xviii Chronology of Benjamin Franklin 



Elected Chairman of the Committee of Safety of Pennsylvania. 

 Proposed in the Continental Congress " Articles of Confedera- 

 tion and Perpetual Union." 

 Appointed Postmaster-General of the United Colonies. 

 1776. Signed the Declaration of Independence. 



July 16, elected President of the Convention to frame a Con- 

 stitution for the State of Pennsylvania. 

 Appointed one of the Commissioners to the Court of France. 

 Sailed in October and arrived in France December 4. 



1778. Negotiated a Treaty of Amity and Commerce and also a Treaty 



of Alliance with France, February 6. 

 Appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of France, 

 September 14. 



1779. An edition of his "Works," edited by Vaughan, w^as published 



in London. 



1780. A German translation of his "Works" was published at 



Dresden in 3 vols., 8 vo. 



1 78 1. Appointed one of the Commissioners to negotiate a Treaty of 



Peace with Great Britain. 



1782. Negotiated a Preliminary Treaty of Peace with Great Britain, 



November 30. 



1783. Concluded, April 3, a Treaty of Amity and Commerce with the 



King of Sweden. 

 Negotiated the Definitive Treaty of Peace with Great Britain, 



September 3. 

 An Italian translation of his works was published at Padua. 

 1785. Negotiated a Treaty of Amity and Commerce with the King 

 of Prussia. 

 After having taken farewell leave of the King of France, left 



Paris, July 12, and arrived at Philadelphia, September 14. 

 Elected President of the State of Pennsylvania, October 26. 

 1787. Chosen a Delegate to the Convention to frame the Constitu- 

 tion of the United States. 

 1790. Died at Philadelphia on April 17. 



