1290s: The first clock tower is said to have been built on the site but there are no records of it. · 1367 · 1698: The medieval clock tower is pulled down and a ...

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Before 1878: The clock stopped for the first time in its history, "through a heavy fall of snow" on the hands of a clock face. · 21 August 1877 – January 1878: ...

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July 11, 1859 - Big Ben chimes for the first time. September 1859 - Big Ben's great bell cracks two months after its first chime and is taken out of commission.

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The history of the Big Ben Clock Tower at Westminster dates back to the 13th Century but the tower as we now know it has its roots in 19th Century Britain.

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1858 (12 May): A brand new Big Ben, recast by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, gets its first public airing. This time, the clapper is deployed in ...

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The Great Clock was installed in 1859 and started on 31 May. The Great Bell, Big Ben, began striking on 11 July 1859.

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The famous tower clock known as Big Ben, located at the top of the 320-foot-high Elizabeth Tower, begins ticking over the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, ...

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Big Ben is one of the United Kingdom's most iconic landmarks, and has for almost two centuries towered over Westminster's busy streets to the awe of Londoners ...

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The history of the Big Ben Clock Tower at Westminster dates back to the 13th Century but the tower as we now know it has its roots in 19th Century Britain. In ...

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July 11, 1859 - Big Ben chimes for the first time. September 1859 - Big Ben's great bell cracks two months after its first chime and is taken out of commission.

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