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 within a few hundred yards of the British earthen fort, at a striking distance to overrun the enemy. |
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Fort George (Castine, Maine) |
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Penobscot Expedition |
1792/00/00 |
Paul Revere cast his first bell, also the first bell cast in Boston, for his own church, the Second Church (lost) of Boston. |
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First Church Bell Cast In Boston |
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1792/06/28 |
Paul Revere buys a lot on Lynn Street, now Commercial St, at Sliding Ally in Boston and establishes a foundry with his sons Paul Jr and Joseph Warren. |
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1795/00/00 |
Revere is hired to provide 15 tons of drawn copper bolts to fasten hull planking to live oak frame, a 242-pound bell and fittings for the USS CONSTITUTION at $3820.33. Revere's foundry draws will down the English-made copper bolts and provide the bell. |
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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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1800/01/00 |
Encouraged by the promise of a loan from the federal government, Paul Revere, buys a former gunpowder mill in Canton, where during the Revolutionary War, largely by his instrumentality and agency, the Colony and State had been supplied with powder. |
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Paul Revere Heritage Site |
Canton |
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1802/00/00 |
Paul Revere recommends covering the wooden dome of the Massachusetts Statehouse with copper sheets in the manner used in ship building to solve the problem of persistent rainwater leaks. |
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Massachusetts Statehouse |
Boston |
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1811/00/00 |
At the age of 76, Paul Revere cast his last bell, retires from business and passes the day-to-day operations on to his son and grandson. 27 bells are known to exist which were cast during the period of his direct involvement at the foundry. |
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Paul Revere Heritage Site |
Canton |
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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 |