Which city hosted the main 1976 presentation of Britain’s Bicentennial Bell?

Philadelphia hosted the main 1976 presentation of Britain’s Bicentennial Bell.

Queen Elizabeth II presented the replica bell in Philadelphia on July 6, 1976, during the United States Bicentennial. Philadelphia was a fitting setting because the city had hosted the Second Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention.

The bell was modeled on the Liberty Bell and cast at London’s Whitechapel Bell Foundry. Its gift from Britain acknowledged the two countries’ shared history while celebrating the United States as an independent nation two centuries after 1776.

Boston, New York City, and Washington, D.C., also played major roles in the American Revolution and national history. Philadelphia is the specific answer because the Bicentennial Bell presentation took place there, not because it was the only city involved in the anniversary.