11 events with tag "Franklin"
1731
ID: 496
February 1731
Benjamin Franklin initiated into St. John's Lodge Philadelphia at age 24
ID: 496
1734
ID: 500
Franklin elected Grand Master of Pennsylvania Masons at 28 - youngest in Masonic history
ID: 500
1749
ID: 532
Franklin appointed Provincial Grand Master by Thomas Oxnard with authority over all Pennsylvania lodges
ID: 532
1760
ID: 557
Franklin's London Masonic activities - visits lodges as colonial agent, made honorary member in Edinburgh
ID: 557
1767
ID: 571
Franklin's first Paris visit as colonial agent - cultivates 'Philosopher from the Woods' image
ID: 571
1778
ID: 598
Franklin's fur cap becomes Paris fashion sensation - 'coiffure à la Franklin' - cultivates frontier image
ID: 598
1778
ID: 600
Franklin meets Voltaire at Academy of Sciences - theatrical embrace as 'Solon and Sophocles'
ID: 600
1779
ID: 603
Franklin becomes Venerable Master of Nine Sisters - first American to lead major European lodge
ID: 603
1779
ID: 604
Turgot's epigram on Franklin: 'He snatched lightning from heaven and scepter from tyrants'
ID: 604
1784
ID: 617
Franklin's 'Savages' speech - argues Native Americans more civilized than Europeans
ID: 617
1790
ID: 638
April 17, 1790
Franklin dies - largest funeral in American history, 20,000 mourners, Masonic procession leads
ID: 638