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In 1731, Benjamin Franklin established the Library Company of Philadelphia, the first library owned by a group of public citizens, which quickly expanded beyond the realm of books and became a center of scientific experiment, and which hosted public exhibitions of scientific experiments.
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1731 and Benjamin
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Benjamin Banneker ( November 9, 1731 – October 9, 1806 ) was a free African American scientist, surveyor, almanac author and farmer.
Benjamin Banneker was born November 9, 1731, in Baltimore County, Maryland to his mother Mary, a free black, and his father George, a fugitive slave.
* William Franklin ( 1731 – 1813 ), estranged son of Benjamin Franklin and last colonial governor of New Jersey.
* William Franklin ( 1731 – 1813 ), last Colonial Governor of New Jersey, son of Benjamin Franklin.
In 1731, Benjamin Franklin and his friends, sometimes called " the Junto ", operated the Library Company of Philadelphia partly as a means to settle arguments and partly as a means to advance themselves through sharing information.
* March 23-Richard Dobie, an early Canadian businessman and a sometimes partner of Benjamin Frobisher ( born 1731 ).
* Gray, A. K. Benjamin Franklin's Library: A Short Account of the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1731 – 1931, Foreword by Owen Wister.
* Wolf, E. " At the Instance of Benjamin Franklin "— A Brief History of The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1731 – 1976.
1731 and Franklin
On July 1, 1731, Franklin and a number of his fellow members among the Junto drew up articles of agreement to found a library, for they had discovered that their far-ranging conversations on intellectual and political themes foundered at times on a point of fact that might be found in a decent library.
1731 and established
In 1731 she established a Cadet Corps.
The city is home to important archival repositories, including the Library Company of Philadelphia, established in 1731, and the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, founded in 1814.
In 1731 the Siberian Military Flotilla was established here.
When the government of Worcester County was established on April 2, 1731, Worcester was chosen as shire town ( later known as a county seat ).
In 1731, Connecticut's colonial legislature established Canaan Parish as a religious entity in northwestern Norwalk and northeastern Stamford.
Category: Populated places established in 1731
Category: Populated places established in 1731
Category: Populated places established in 1731
Category: Populated places established in 1731
The Scotch-Irish Presbyterians of Allen Twp established a church in 1731.
Category: Populated places established in 1731
As the founding publisher of the Universal Lexicon, started in 1731 and during his lifetime growing to a total of 64 volumes, Zedler got into a long-standing legal dispute with the established publishers in Leipzig, whose more specialized products were threatened.
Category: Populated places established in 1731
In 1731, James Drummond, 3rd Duke of Perth, laid out the town's central James Square and established a textile industry with a flax factory.
By 1710, two separate principalities had become an established fact, eventually confirmed by the Treaty of Warna in 1731.
* 1731: Fort St. Pierre on Rainy Lake established by Christopher Dufrost de La Jemeraye and Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye.
Category: Publications established in 1731
The family estates were not forfeited on the attainder of the 3rd Earl, because his son's right to them under his marriage settlement was established before the Court of Delegates on appeal from the Forfeit Estates Commission, but the forfeiture took effect on his death in 1731.
It was first established by Dutch immigrants in 1731.
The Swedish East India Company was established 14 June 1731, its purpose to trade in East Asia.
Category: Populated places established in 1731
Mission San Francisco de la Espada ( also Mission Espada ) was a Roman Catholic mission established by Spain near San Antonio de Bexar in northern New Spain in 1731 to convert local Native Americans to Christianity and solidify Spanish territorial claims in the New World against encroachment from France.
1731 and Library
It suffered damage in the Cotton Library fire at Ashburnham House in 1731.
One was originally a complete copy of Ine's laws, part of British Library MS Cotton Otho B xi, but that manuscript was largely destroyed in 1731 by a fire at Ashburnham House in which only Chapters 66 to 76. 2 of Ine's laws escaped destruction.
Madden immediately identified them as part of the Cotton Library collection, which had been badly damaged in a fire of 1731.
* Library Company of Philadelphia: The " mother of all subscription libraries ", the Library Company was founded in 1731.
The Museum of Fulham Palace partially occupies Bishop Howley's Dining Room and the Porteus Library ( named after Bishop Beilby Porteus, 1731 – 1809 ), in the early 19th century part of the Palace.
* Grimm, D. F. " A History of the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1731 – 1835.
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