when was the liberty bell built
Confidence votes 502. The Liberty Bell was ordered in 1751 to commemorate William Penn's 1701 Charter of Privileges, which had been passed 50 years earlier. It was cast in 1752 in London and commissioned as the bell for the Pennsylvania State House (now called Independence Hall).The Liberty Bell represented the freedoms valued by the Pennsylvania colony.he bell cracked again when it was rung during John Marshall's funeral in 1835. The Liberty Bell rang its last note in 1846 to honor George Washington's birthday. After the bell was rung on Washington's birthday, there appeared a distinct jagged line that prevented the bell from ever being rung again.