1767. May 13—Duty imposed on tea.
1769. June 22—Maryland Conventions met.

1772. The second State House was torn down, and the foundation of the
present State House was laid by Governor Robert Eden. The
dome was added after the Revolution.
1774. The present State House completed.

1774. October 19—Burning of the "Peggy Stewart. "

1775. July 26—Formation of "Association of Freeman."

1776. July 3—Maryland declared her independence.

1776. November 10—First State Constitution adopted.

1777. March 21—Thomas Johnson, first State Governor, inaugurated.

1781. March I—Maryland entered the Confederation.

1782. Washington College, Chestertown, incorporated.

1783. November 26—Continental Congress met in Annapolis.

1783. December 23—Washington resigned his military commission to

Congress in old Senate Chamber of Capitol, Annapolis.

1784. Saint John's College, Annapolis, chartered.
1784. January 14—Treaty of Peace with Great Britain ratified.

1784. Christmas conference of Methodist in Lovely Lane, Baltimore,
Francis Ashbury and Thomas Cole made the first Bishops.

1784. Cokesbury College, the first Methodist institution for higher educa-
tion in the world, opened at Abingdon, Harford County.

1786. December 11—First steamboat in the United States, invented by
James Rumsey, made trial trip on Potomac river, near Shep-
herdstown.

1786. September II—Convention of six States to inaugurate movement
for a percursor of the Federal Constitutional Convention met in
Annapolis.

1786. The Pope appointed Rev. John Carroll Apostolic Vicar, afterwards
Bishop of Baltimore. He became later the first Archbishop of
the United States.

1788. April 28—Maryland ratified Federal Constitution.

1791. Maryland ceded the District of Columbia to the United States.

1792. September—Rev. Thomas John Claggett consecrated the first

Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Maryland.
1796. Baltimore City incorporated.
1810. Property qualification for Electors abolished.
1814. September 12—Battle of North Point.
1814. September 13—Bombardment of Fort McHenry, during which

Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner."

1824. Religious tests for office removed.

1825. Jewish disabilities removed.
1828. July 4—Cornerstone of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad laid by Charles

Carroll of Carrollton.

1835. Bank riots in Baltimore.

1836. Obed Hussey, of Baltimore, the inventor of the first reaper and
mower cut the first field of grain ever harvested by a reaper (180
acres of wheat, oats and timothy) on the farm of General Tench
Tilghman, near Oxford, Talbot County, Md., under the auspices
of the Board of Agriculture for the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Owen Dorsey, fo Howard County, Md., invented the first suc-
cessful side rake and reaper attachment.