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The Life and Works of Thomas Paine 1737: Thomas Paine born, Thetford, Norfolk. 1756: Moved to London. Sinking of the Terrible. 1757: Joined crew of King of Prussia. 1758: Working as a staymaker in Kent. 1759: Married Mary Lambert. 1760: Mary and child die in childbirth. 1762: Employed as an exciseman in Grantham, Lincs. 1764: Promoted. Moved to Alford, Lincs. Sacked after quarrel with superior. 1766: Reinstated with the Excise. Taught in London schools awaiting a posting. 1768: Posted to Lewes, Sussex. ‘Headstrong Club’ meet for discussions at White Hart Inn. 1771: Married Elizabeth Ollive. 1772: Defended Sussex excisemen in wage dispute. Published pamphlet ‘The Case of the Officers of Excise.’ Sacked by the Excise for being AWOL 1774: Separated from Elizabeth. Travelled to Philadelphia on London Packet. First Continental Conference 1775: Executive editor and contributor to Pennsylvania Magazine. Battle of Lexington 1776: Published ‘Common Sense.’ Travelled to New York. Declaration of Independence. Aide-de-camp to Gen. Greene. Published first part of ‘The American Crisis.’ Battle of Trenton. 1777: Secretary to the Committee for Foreign Affairs. Fled the sacking of Philadelphia. Silas Deane Affair. 1779: Resigned as secretary. 1780: Appointed as clerk for Pennsylvania Assembly. Siege of Charleston. Receives honorary MA from University of Pennsylvania. Published ‘Crisis Extraordinary’ 1781: Visited France on The Alliance to find financial aid for war effort. Battle of Yorktown. 1782: Employed to write for the government. Published ‘Public Good.’ 1783: Peace between US, Britain and France. Published ‘The Last Crisis.’ Resigned. 1784: Received land in New Rochelle, NY. Congressional grant of $3000 for services rendered. 1785: Scheme for an iron bridge. 1786: Published ‘Dissertations on Government.’ 1787: Travelled to France then on to Britain to find backers for bridge design. 1789: Storming of the Bastille. Visited revolutionary Paris. 1790: Returns to Britain. Burke publishes ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France.’ 1791: Published first part of ‘Rights of Man.’ Visits Paris during Louis XVI attempted escape. 1792: Published second part of ‘Rights of Man.’ Charged with sedition. Fled to France. 1793: Execution of Louis XVI. French declaration of war against Britain. Jacobin Terror. Published ‘The Age of Reason’. Arrested and jailed in the Luxembourg. 1794: Escaped the guillotine. Fall of Robespierre. Released. 1796: Published ‘Agrarian Justice’ and ‘Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance’ 1799: Rise of Napoleon 1802: Returned to America 1809: Died Poor Tom Paine! there he lies: Nobody laughs and nobody cries. Where he has gone or how he fares Nobody knows and nobody cares.

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