SPEAKERS OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 137
HAMS. COUNTY. SESSION.

Frederick C. Latrobe.......... Baltimore City.......1870 January.

Arthur P. Gorman............. Howard Co......... 1872 January.

Jesse K. Hines................ Kent Co............ 1874 January.

Lewis C. Smith............... Washington Co..... 1876 January.

Fetter S. Hoblitzell........... Baltimore City ..... 1878 January.

Hiram McCullough........... Cecil Co............ 1880 January.

Otis Keilholtz................ Baltimore City...... 1882 January. >

J. Pembroke Thom........... Baltimore City...... 1884 January.

Joseph B. Seth................Talbot Co...........1886 January.

George M. Upshur............ Worcester Co........1888 January.

John Hubner................. Baltimore Co........ 1890 January.

J. Murray Vandiver...........Harford Co..........1892 January.

James H. Preston............. Baltimore City...... 1894 January.

Sydney E. Mudd..............Charles Co.........1896 January.

Louis Schaefer................ Baltimore City...... 1898 January.

Lloyd Wilkinson.............. Worcester Co....... 7900 January.

Noble L. Mitchell............ Harford Co......... 1002 January.

Dr. George Y. Everhart........Baltimore Co.......1904 January.

Carville D. Benson............. Baltimore Co....... 1906 January.

CHRONOLOGY.

1632. June 20—Charter of Maryland granted.

1633. November 22—Sailing of the Ark and Dove.

1634. March 25—Landing of the Colonists.

1635. February 26—First Meeting of the Assembly.

T6.35. April 23—The first naval battle by white men in America was
fought on the Little Pocomoke River, Eastern Shore of Mary-
land, between Clayborne's pinnace Long Tail and Governor
Calvert's two pinnaces, the St. Margaret and the St. Helen.

1639. July ...—Protestant Revolution.

1649. Toleration Act passed.

1652. Maryland seized by the Commissioners of Parliament.

1657. November 30—Restoration of the Province to Lord Baltimore.

1666. Augustine Herman and family naturalized. The first foreigners
ever naturalized in Maryland.

1682. December 19—William Penn met Charles Calvert, 3d, Lord Bal-
timore, at West River, for an interview on the divisional Hue
between their lands.

1683. The old Treasury Building on Capitol Hill was built for "the
Court House for the Port of Entry," Used as the Treasury
both by the Provincial and State government.

16—. The first regularly constituted Presbyterian Church in the United
States was erected at Rehoboth, Somerset (now Wicomico)
County, by Rev. Frank Mackemie, who was the first regularly
ordained Presbyterian minister in America.

1692. Church of England made the established church of the Province.

1694. Seat of Government removed from St. Mary's to Annapolis,
under Francis Nicholson, Governor.

1694. February 28—The first Provincial Assembly held in Annapolis in
Major Edward Dorsey's house, 83 Prince George Street.

1696. April 3Ch—Foundation of first State House laid.

1696. King William's School founded at Annapolis.

1702. The English "Toleration Act for Dissenters" was extended to
Maryland.

1704. An Act was passed "to prevent the growth of popery."

1704. The first State House was entirely destroyed by fire.