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<text id=93AT0412>
<title>
Maryland--History
</title>
<history>
Compact ALMANAC--United States Directory
Maryland
</history>
<article>
<source>Compact</source>
<hdr>
History
</hdr>
<body>
<p>Maryland Capsule Chronology
</p>
<p> c. 10,000 BC
</p>
<p> Indians known to have lived in Maryland by this date.
</p>
<p> c. 1,000 BC
</p>
<p> Indian introduction of pottery.
</p>
<p> c. 800 BC
</p>
<p> Indian introduction of domesticated plants.
</p>
<p> c. 1,000 AD
</p>
<p> Permanent Indian villages established.
</p>
<p> 1498
</p>
<p> John Cabot sailed along Eastern Shore off present-day
Worcester County.
</p>
<p> 1524
</p>
<p> Giovanni da Verrazano passed mouth of Chesapeake Bay.
</p>
<p> 1572
</p>
<p> Pedro Menendez de Aviles, Spanish governor of Florida,
explored Chesapeake Bay.
</p>
<p> 1608
</p>
<p> Capt. John Smith explored Chesapeake Bay.
</p>
<p> 1631
</p>
<p> Kent Island settled by Virginia under William Claiborne.
</p>
<p> 1632, June 20
</p>
<p> Maryland Charter granted to Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Lord
Baltimore, by Charles I, King of England.
</p>
<p> 1634, March 25
</p>
<p> Landing of settlers at St. Clement's Island.
</p>
<p> 1635, Feb. 26
</p>
<p> First General Assembly met at St. Mary's.
</p>
<p> 1649, April 21
</p>
<p> Religious toleration law enacted.
</p>
<p> 1652, March 29
</p>
<p> Parliamentary commissioners hold jurisdiction over colony,
curtailing proprietary authority.
</p>
<p> 1655, March 25
</p>
<p> Puritans from Virginia defeated Gov. William Stone's forces
at Battle of the Severn.
</p>
<p> 1657, Nov. 30
</p>
<p> Lord Baltimore's claim to Maryland reaffirmed.
</p>
<p> 1664
</p>
<p> Slavery sanctioned by law; slaves to serve for life.
</p>
<p> 1689, July-1690, May
</p>
<p> Maryland Revolution of 1689.
</p>
<p> 1692, April-1715
</p>
<p> Crown rule; Maryland governed as a royal colony rather than a
proprietary province.
</p>
<p> 1694
</p>
<p> Capital moved from St. Mary's City to Annapolis.
</p>
<p> 1696
</p>
<p> King William's School (later St. John's College) founded at
Annapolis.
</p>
<p> 1727, Sept.
</p>
<p> Maryland Gazette began publication at Annapolis.
</p>
<p> 1729
</p>
<p> Baltimore Town established.
</p>
<p> 1732
</p>
<p> Establishment of boundary line with three lower counties of
Pennsylvania, which later became Delaware.
</p>
<p> 1744, June 30
</p>
<p> Indian chiefs of the Six Nations relinquished by treaty all
claims to land in colony.
</p>
<p> 1747
</p>
<p> Tobacco inspection enabled Maryland to control quality of
exports.
</p>
<p> 1763-1767
</p>
<p> Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon surveyed bouundary line with
Pennsylvania.
</p>
<p> 1765
</p>
<p> Stamp Act resistance at Frederick.
</p>
<p> 1776, July 4
</p>
<p> Declaration of Independence adopted in Philadelphia.
Engrossed copy signed by Marylanders William Paca, Charles
Carroll of Carrollton, Thomas Stone and Samuel Chase.
</p>
<p> 1776, July 6
</p>
<p> Maryland Convention declared independence from Great Britain.
</p>
<p> 1776, Nov. 5
</p>
<p> Declaration of Rights adopted by Ninth Convention. Church
of England disestablished.
</p>
<p> 1776, Nov. 8
</p>
<p> First State Constitution adopted by Ninth Convention.
</p>
<p> 1776, Dec. 20-1777, March 4
</p>
<p> Continental Congress met at Baltimore.
</p>
<p> 1781, March 1
</p>
<p> Maryland ratified, and thereby made effective, the Articles
of Confederation.
</p>
<p> 1783, Dec. 23
</p>
<p> Washington resigned commission as Commander-in-Chief of
Continental Army at State House in Annapolis.
</p>
<p> 1784, Jann. 14
</p>
<p> Treaty of Paris, ending Revolutionary War, ratifited by
Congress at Annapolis.
</p>
<p> 1788, April 28
</p>
<p> Maryland, the seventh state, ratified U.S. constitution.
</p>
<p> 1789, Dec. 19
</p>
<p> Maryland ratified Bill of Rights, first ten amendments to
U.S. Constitution.
</p>
<p> 1791, Dec. 19
</p>
<p> Maryland ceded land for District of Columbia.
</p>
<p> 1796
</p>
<p> Baltimore City incorporated.
</p>
<p> 1802
</p>
<p> Property qualification for voting removed in local elections.
</p>
<p> 1803
</p>
<p> Viva voce voting at elections changed to voting by ballot.
</p>
<p> 1810
</p>
<p> Property qualification ended in voting for elections for
president, vice-president, and congressmen.
</p>
<p> 1810
</p>
<p> Free blacks disenfranchised.
</p>
<p> 1814, Aug. 24
</p>
<p> Battle of Bladensburg. (War of 1812)
</p>
<p> 1814, Sept. 12
</p>
<p> British repulsed at Battle of North Point.
</p>
<p> 1814, Sept. 13
</p>
<p> Bombardment of Fort McHenry, which inspired Francis Scott
Key to write "Star-Spangled Banner."
</p>
<p> 1818
</p>
<p> National Road completed from Cumberland to Wheeling.
</p>
<p> 1824-1829
</p>
<p> Chesapeake and Delaware Canal constructed.
</p>
<p> 1827, Feb. 28
</p>
<p> Baltimore and Ohio Railroad chartered.
</p>
<p> 1837, May 17
</p>
<p> The Baltimore Sun began publication.
</p>
<p> 1838, Oct. 3
</p>
<p> Governor and State senators first elected by voters rather
than by legislature.
</p>
<p> 1844, May 24
</p>
<p> Samuel E. B. Morse demonstrated telegraph line from
Washington, D.C. to Baltimore.
</p>
<p> 1845, Oct. 10
</p>
<p> U.S. Naval Academy adopted.
</p>
<p> 1854-1859
</p>
<p> Rise of "Know Nothing Party." Baltimore riots named city
"Mobtown."
</p>
<p> 1859, Oct. 16
</p>
<p> John Brown launched raid from Maryland on Federal arsenal,
Harper's Ferry.
</p>
<p> 1861, April 19
</p>
<p> Sixth Massachusetts Union Regiment attacked by Baltimore mob.
</p>
<p> 1861, April 26
</p>
<p> General Assembly met in special session at Frederick while
federal troops occupied Annapolis.
</p>
<p> 1861, May 13
</p>
<p> Gen. Benjamin E. Butler's Union forces occupied Batlimore.
</p>
<p> 1862, Sept. 17
</p>
<p> Battle of Antietam.
</p>
<p> 1863, June
</p>
<p> Confederates invaded Maryland en route to Gettysburg.
</p>
<p> 1864, July 6
</p>
<p> Hagerstown held for ransom by Confederates.
</p>
<p> 1864, July 9
</p>
<p> Frederick held for ransom by Confederates.
</p>
<p> 1864, Nov. 1
</p>
<p> Maryland slaves emancipated by State Constitution of 1864.
</p>
<p> 1877, Jan. 16
</p>
<p> Maryland-Virginia boundary demarcated by Jenkins-Black Award.
</p>
<p> 1877, July 20-22
</p>
<p> Baltimore and Ohio Railroad strike riot at Baltimore.
</p>
<p> 1886, Jan. 5
</p>
<p> Enoch Pratt Free Library opened in Baltimore.
</p>
<p> 1888-1889
</p>
<p> Oyster Wars; Maryland and Virginia watermen fought on
Chesapeake Bay.
</p>
<p> 1890
</p>
<p> Australian secret ballot in elections adopted.
</p>
<p> 1894
</p>
<p> First child labor law passed.
</p>
<p> 1902
</p>
<p> Workman's compensation law enacted, first such law in U.S.
Cumpulsory school attendance law passed.
</p>
<p> 1904
</p>
<p> Baltimore fire. Seventy blocks in heart of business
district devastated.
</p>
<p> 1931, March 3
</p>
<p> "Star-Spangled Banner" adopted as national anthem.
</p>
<p> 1937
</p>
<p> State income tax instituted.
</p>
<p> 1937, June 1
</p>
<p> City of Greenbelt chartered, a New Deal model community.
</p>
<p> 1947, July 1
</p>
<p> State sales tax instituted.
</p>
<p> 1950, June 24
</p>
<p> Friendship International Airport (later BWI) began operation.
</p>
<p> 1952, July 31
</p>
<p> Chesapeake Bay Bridge opened.
</p>
<p> 1957, Nov. 29
</p>
<p> Baltimore Harbor Tunnel.
</p>
<p> 1959, May
</p>
<p> Goddard Space Flight Center opened in Greenbelt.
</p>
<p> 1970, Spring
</p>
<p> Student rebellion at Univerrsity of Maryland, College Park.
</p>
<p> 1973
</p>
<p> Urban "homesteading" begun in Baltimore. City sold
abandoned houses for $1 each to buyers for renovation.
</p>
<p> 1980, July 2
</p>
<p> Harborplace, a 3-acre center of restaurants and shops,
opened in Baltimore City, signaling the revitalization of
Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
</p>
<p> 1981
</p>
<p> National Aquarium opened in Baltimore.
</p>
<p> 1987, Dec. 14
</p>
<p> Chesapeake Bay Agreement to restore and protect the Bay
signed by Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, District of
Columbia, Chesapeake Bay Commission, and U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency.
</p>
<p>Source: State of Maryland.
</p>
</body>
</article>
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