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Thomas Paine dies at his Grove Street Address in Greenwich Village in New York City. Only 6 mourners attend his funeral. |
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Robespierre has Thomas Paine arrested and imprisoned at Luxembourg palace. |
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Paine is denounced on the floor of the National Convention as "an Englishman" and declared an enemy of France. Robespierre begins to plan Paine's arrest. |
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In a letter to Jefferson, Thomas Paine writes "Had this Revolution been conducted consistently with its principles, there was once a good prospect of extending liberty through the greatest part of Europe; but I now reqlinquish that hope." |
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Thomas Paine completes his work "The Rights of Man" as a reply to "Reflections on the Revolution in France" by Edmund Burke. In it, Paine clearly documents three points similar to the "self-evident truths" that are cited in Jefferson's US Declaration of Independence. |
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Thomas Paine publishes his first "American Crisis" essay. He proclaims that "These are the times that try men's souls." |
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Thomas Paine completes "Common Sense." |
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Thomas Paine arrives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, having been advised to emigrate to the United States by Benjamin Franklin. |
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Thomas Paine marries his landlord's daughter, Elizabeth Ollive. |
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Thomas Paine is discharged from his post as an excise officer for claiming to have inspected goods for which he merely reviewed the documentation. |
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Thomas Paine writes a letter to the board of excise requesting to be reinstated, and on the 4th his request is granted, but to be filled on vacancy. |
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Thomas Paine is born in King Street in Thetford, Norfolk. |
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