1711 - The Franklin family cat scratches young Benjamin horizonally across the eyes. This event will later inspire him to invent bi-focal glasses.
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1711 - The Franklin family cat scratches young Benjamin horizonally across the eyes. This event will later inspire him to invent bi-focal glasses.
1712 - in reaction to the famed cat-scratching incident, young Ben writes his first little homily in preparation for the Almanac to follow: "Pain is gain"
1713
Ben is seven years old.
while experimenting with swimming techniques, Ben gives the family cat a good wetting, especially when Ben tied the family cat to a little raft floating on a lake during a thunderstorm.
1714 August 1 - George, elector of Hanover becomes King George I of Great Britain.
1715 - Exiled King James Stuart and his followers, called Jacobites, make the first attempt to place James back on the combined Scottish-English throne. The Jacobite rising of 1715 fails.
1716
Pirate Edward Teach the "Blackbeard" raids shipping in the Caribbean
1717 - Not yet having graduated the torturing-small-animals stage, Benjamin Franklin ties a long, metal pole to the tail of the family cat, thereafter tying a kite to the end of the long, metal pole.
1718 - The cat finally has enough and runs away permanently. ben is heartbroken.
1719 - The Franklin family gets a fish.
1720
The Franklin ex-family cat returns for revenge and eats the family fish. Ben is heartbroken.
1721 a secret society of anti feline fish is formed, led by the cousin of the Franklin Family Fish. (FFF).
1722--Easter Island is discovered by Jakob Roggeveen. Meanwhile young ben is observing the activities of his revolutionary fish and taking notes for future reference.
1723
FFF takes its' first big move, it lures and drowns an innocent young family cat who didn't know any better.
1724
FFF takes over the world but fails to inform anybody and so goes unnoticed
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