--- ---  # Lin-Manuel Miranda Chose an Appropriate Date for His Final Night in _Hamilton_  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Updated: Dec 13, 2023 7:16 AM UTCPublished: Jul 8, 2016 4:00 PM UTC  Actor, composer Lin-Manuel Miranda performs on stage during "Hamilton" GRAMMY performance on Feb. 15, 2016 in New York City. Actor, composer Lin-Manuel Miranda performs on stage during "Hamilton" GRAMMY performance on Feb. 15, 2016 in New York City.Theo Wargo—Getty Images  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Updated: Dec 13, 2023 7:16 AM UTCPublished: Jul 8, 2016 4:00 PM UTC This weekend will be a somewhat sad one from fans of _Hamilton_: its creator and star, Lin-Manuel Miranda, will perform [his final show](http://time.com/4371511/lin-manuel-miranda-leaving-hamilton/) in the title role on Saturday, before going off to work on other projects. Though he’s said that he’ll revisit the role in the future, it marks the end of an era — and the beginning of a new one — for the mega-hit musical as longtime understudy Javier Muñoz takes over. These couple days will also be sad ones for fans of the real historical figure [Alexander Hamilton](http://time.com/4149349/alexander-hamilton-facts/). It was on July 11 of 1804 — exactly 212 years ago this Monday — that the Founding Father was shot by his rival, Vice President Aaron Burr, in a duel. At 2:00 in the afternoon on the following day, July 12, Alexander Hamilton died. “Yesterday Genl. Hamilton expired in the midst of his family, who are agonized beyond description. No person who witnessed their distress will ever be induced to fight a duel—unless he is a person wholly insensible to every sentiment of humanity,” [wrote](https://books.google.com/books?id=HNRR9VrwsWsC&pg=PA407&lpg=PA407&dq=%22thus+has+perished+one+of+the+greatest+men%22&source=bl&ots=vKOJutWiMp&sig=JcXtPdmR4mtPsQnW%5FTKOh6VRW6c&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjN2NfR0MnNAhVDyyYKHWImAJIQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=%22thus%20has%20perished%20one%20of%20the%20greatest%20men%22&f=false) Hamilton’s friend Oliver Wolcott to his wife, on July 13\. “Nothing can present a more humiliating idea of the imperfection of human nature, than the scene we have witnessed.” [_Get your history fix in one place: sign up for the weekly TIME History newsletter_](http://time.com/newsletter) Hamilton biographer Ron Chernow [told TIME Books](http://time.com/4149352/ron-chernow-alexander-hamilton-interview/) last year, there’s reason to believe that [Hamilton](http://time.com/4210440/jefferson-hamilton-excerpt/) could have gone on to even more great things had he survived that day: “At the time of the duel, he was projecting a series of volumes on the history of political institutions, and he said that those books would be to the Federalist Papers what wine was to water,” Chernow said, “which makes me very sad that we never got to read them.” Lin-Manuel Miranda's Last 'Hamilton' Show: On a Fitting Day ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4384946/lin-manuel-miranda-hamilton-last-show/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4384946/lin-manuel-miranda-hamilton-last-show/"},"headline":"Lin-Manuel Miranda Chose an Appropriate Date for His Final Night in Hamilton","datePublished":"2016-07-08T16:00:34.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T07:16:12.000Z","description":"It's almost the anniversary of the end of the real Alexander Hamilton, too","url":"https://time.com/4384946/lin-manuel-miranda-hamilton-last-show/","keywords":["Theater"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc9fceadad41efe4/698899a8bc6cfc96193dd933/hamilton1.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lily Rothman","jobTitle":"Rothman is managing editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc9fceadad41efe4/698899a8bc6cfc96193dd933/hamilton1.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hamilton at the Grammys","caption":"The 58th GRAMMY Awards - \"Hamilton\" GRAMMY Performance","creditText":"Theo Wargo—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4384946/lin-manuel-miranda-hamilton-last-show/","name":"Lin-Manuel Miranda Chose an Appropriate Date for His Final Night in Hamilton"}}]}] ```