1734/12/21 |
Paul Revere is born in the North End of Boston on December 21, 1734, according to the Old Style calendar then in use, or January 1, 1735, in the modern calendar. |
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Paul Revere's Birthday |
1770/00/00 |
Paul Revere purchases an old house in the North End of Boston, Paul Revere's home from 1770-1800 |
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Paul Revere House |
Boston |
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1773/12/16 |
More than 5000 American colonists meet at the South Meeting House to decide the fate of three ships (BEAVER, ELEANOR and DARTMOUTH) loaded with tea docked at Griffin's Wharf |
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Old South Meetinghouse |
Boston |
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Boston Tea Party |
1773/12/16 |
More than 5000 American colonists meet at the South Meeting House to decide the fate of three ships (BEAVER, ELEANOR and DARTMOUTH) loaded with tea docked at Griffin's Wharf |
Ringleader |
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Old South Meetinghouse |
Boston |
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American Revolution - From Protest to Revolt |
1775/04/18 |
Paul Revere leaves his house in Boston and is rowed across the harbor to Charlestown. "While waiting to start his famous ride, he realized that he'd forgotten his spurs, sent his dog home with a note asking that they be brought to him." Esther Forbes |
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Paul Revere House |
Boston |
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The Midnight Ride |
1775/04/18 |
Paul Revere alerts Isaac Hall |
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Isaac Hall House |
Medford, MA |
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The Midnight Ride |
1775/04/19 |
About midnight: Paul Revere arrives at Lexington warning John Hancock and Samuel Adams they are about to be arrested. |
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Hancock-Clarke House |
Lexington, MA |
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The Midnight Ride |
1775/04/19 |
Revere is briefly detained and questioned. "in an instant I saw four of them, who rode up to me, with their pistols in their hands, said G-d d-n you stop. If you go an Inch further, you are a dead Man" PR |
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Minute Man National Historical Park - Battle Road Unit |
Lexington, MA |
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The Midnight Ride |
1775/04/19 |
Revere is briefly detained and questioned. "in an instant I saw four of them, who rode up to me, with their pistols in their hands, said G-d d-n you stop. If you go an Inch further, you are a dead Man" PR |
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Minute Man National Historical Park - Battle Road Unit |
Concord, MA |
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The Midnight Ride |
1779/07/25 |
Revere and 600 militiamen under the command of Gen Solomon Lovell, fight to with in a few hundred yards from the British earthen fort, at a striking distance to overrun the enemy. |
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Fort George (Castine, Maine) |
Castine |
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Penobscot Expedition |
1795/00/00 |
Paul Revere is contracted to provide 15 tons of drawn copper bolts (fasten hull planking to live oak frame), a 242-pound bell and other fittings for the USS CONSTITUTION ($3820.33). He obtains English copper sheathing to covered HER below the waterline. |
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USS CONSTITUTION |
Boston |
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1795/07/04 |
During a Masonic ceremony, Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, Paul Revere, assist Samuel Adams in the laying of the foundation stone for the new Massachusetts State House. |
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Massachusetts Statehouse |
Boston |
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1801/00/00 |
Paul Revere establishes a copper rolling mill in a former gunpowder mill in Canton, Massachusetts with son Joseph Warren Revere. |
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1801/00/00 |
Samuel Parkman commissions Paul Revere to cast a bronze bell for his father, Rev Ebenezer Parkman's Westborough MA church. The bell was installed in October of 2011 in the Old South Meeting House. |
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Old South Meetinghouse |
Boston |
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1802/00/00 |
Revere Bell is cast by Paul Revere (bought by the Old South Church in 1803, still hand rung on Sundays, Holidays and special occasions). |
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Old South Church, Newburyport |
Newburyport |
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1814/00/00 |
Paul Revere and the Revere Copper Company recast the King's Chapel bell. |
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King's Chapel, Boston |
Boston |
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1818/05/10 |
Paul Revere dies of natural causes at his home on Charter St (lost) in Boston. He is buried at Granary Burying Ground. |
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Granary Burying Ground |
Boston |
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Death of Paul Revere |