Congress. Name. Years.

Ferdinand C. Latrobe. ........ Baltimore City. ....... 1870 January
Arthur P. Gorman............ Howard...............187S January
Jesse K. Hines. ............. .Kent. ............... 1874 January
Lewis C. Smith. ........... . .Washington . 1876 January
Fetter S. Hoblitzell. .......... Baltimore City. ...... .1878 January
Hiram McCullough........... .Cecil................. 1880 January
Otis Keilholtz, ............... Baltimore City. ....... 1882 January
J. Pembroke Thorn........... .Baltimore City........ 1884 January
Joseph B. Seth. ............. Talbot. .............. .1886 January
•George M. Upshur............ Worcester............. 1888 January
John Hubner. ............... .Baltimore. ........... .1890 January
Murray Vandiver. ............ Harford.............. 1892 January
James H. Preston. ........... Baltimore City. ...... .1894 January
Sydney E. Mudd. ............ -Charles. ... ......... .1896 January
Louis Schaefer. .............. Baltimore City. ...... .1898 January
Lloyd Wilkinson. ............ .Worcester. ........... .1900 January
Noble L. Mitchell. ........... .Harford. ............ .1902 January
Dr. George Y. Everhart. ...... Baltimore. ............1904 January
Carville D. Benson. .......... .Baltimore. ........... .1906 January
J. Enos Ray, Jr. ............. .Prince George's. ..... .1908 January
Adam Peoples............... .Cecil .................1910 January-
James McC. Trippe. .......... Baltimore City. .......1912 January
James MeC. Trippe. ......... .Baltimore City. ...... 1914 January

Chronology.

Revised for this addition by DR. BERNARD C. STEINER, of the

Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City.

1608. Exploration of the Chesapeake Bay by Capt. .John Smith.

1631. August—Settlement of Claiborne fur trading post on Kent island.

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.
1635. 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.
1643. Governor Calvert driven from the province by William Ingle.
1649. Toleration Act passed.

1652. Maryland seized by the Commissioners of Parliament.
1654. March—Battle of the Severn.

1657. November 30—Restoration of the Province of Lord Baltimore.
1666. Augustine Herman and family naturalized. The first foreigners

naturalized in. Maryland.

1671. George Fox visited the Province. Rise of the Quakers.

1682. December—William Penn met Charles Calvert, Third Lord
Baltimore, at West River, for an interview on the divisional
lines between their lands.

1683. The Old Treasury building, on Capitol Hill, Annapolis, was built
for "the Court House of the Port of Entry." Now used as
the office of the State Superintendent of Education.
1689, July—Protestant Revolution,

1692. Church of England made the established church of the Province.
1692. Maryland made a Royal 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