Faneuil Hall - Timeline of Events

Timeline of Events

• 1761 - Building burns down

• 1762 - Hall rebuilt

• 1773
  • December 3 - Meeting about tea lately arrived on the ship Eleanor; Capt. James Bruce, Samuel Adams, Jonathan Williams, and others present

• 1806—Building remodelled and expanded by Charles Bulfinch

• 1826
  • Aug. 2 - Daniel Webster eulogizes John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

• 1831
  • July 11- Timothy Fuller speaks "at the request of the Suffolk Anti-Masonic Committee"

• 1834
  • Sept. 6 - Edward Everett eulogizes Lafayette

• 1837
  • Wendell Phillips speaks
  • 1st Exhibition and Fair of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association

• 1839
  • Peleg Sprague stumps for candidate William Henry Harrison

• 1843
  • July 4 - Charles Francis Adams, Sr. speaks

• 1848
  • April 15 - Edward Everett eulogizes John Quincy Adams

• 1854
  • May 26 - After arrest of Anthony Burns, public meeting "to secure justice for a man claimed as a slave by a Virginia kidnapper, and imprisoned in Boston Court House, in defiance of the laws of Massachusetts."

• 1863
  • April 18 - Andrew Jackson Hamilton "of Texas" speaks "at the war meeting"

• 1865
  • Jan. 9 - Edward Everett speaks on "the relief of the suffering people of Savannah"

• 1876
  • June 7 - Meeting "in favor of public parks;" Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. and others speak

• 1878
  • Aug. 1 - "Indignation meeting ... to protest against the injury done to the freedom of the press by the conviction and imprisonment of Ezra H. Heywood"

• 1887
  • Oct. 29 - Eben Norton Horsford speaks on occasion of the unveiling of Anne Whitney's Leif Ericson statue (installed on Commonwealth Ave.)

• 1903
  • March 4 - Frederic J. Stimson debates James F. Carey
  • March 19 - Protest "against the suppression of truth about the Philippines"
• 1909
  • May - 32nd Grand Division (Order of Railroad Conductors)ORC Convention

• 1974 - Weathervane stolen, then returned

• 1992 - Building restored

• 2012 - Lower Level and First Level completely renovated by Eastern General Contractors, Inc. of Springfield, MA.