c.10,000 B.C. ...........
c. 1000 B.C. ............
c. 800 B.C. .............
c. 1000 A.D. ............
1498 .................
1524 .................
1572 .................
1608 .................
1629 .................
1631 .................
1632, June 20 ...........
1633, Nov. 22 ...........
1634, March 25 ..........
1645 .................
1647/8, Jan. 21 ..........
1649, April 20 ..........
1650, April 6 ...........
1652, March 29 ..........
1655, March 25 ..........
1657, Nov. 30 ...........
1664 .................
1683, May 15 ...........
1685, Aug. 31 ...........
1689, July-1690, May
1690, May-1692, April ....
1692, April-1715 ........
1692 .................
1694 .................
1696 .................
1715 .................
1718 .................
1727, Sept. .............
1729 .................
1732 .................
1744, June 30 ...........
1747 .................
1755 .................
1763-1767 .............
1765, Nov. 23 ...........
1774, June 22 ...........
1774, Oct. 19 ...........
1775, March 22 ..........
1775, July 26 ...........
1776, June 26 ...........
1776, July 3 ............
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Indians known to have lived in Maryland by this date.
Indian introduction of pottery.
Indian introduction of domesticated plants.
Permanent Indian villages established.
John Cabot sailed along Eastern Shore off present-day Worcester
County.
Giovanni da Verrazano passed mouth of Chesapeake Bay.
Pedro Menendez de Aviles, Spanish governor of Florida, explored
Chesapeake Bay.
Capt. John Smith explored Chesapeake Bay.
George Calvert, 1st Lord Baltimore, left Avalon in Newfoundland,
visited Virginia.
Kent Island settled by Virginians under William Claiborne.
Maryland Charter granted to Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Lord Balti-
more, by Charles I.
The Ark and the Dove set sail from Cowes, England, for Maryland.
Landing of settlers at St. Clement's Island.
Ingle's Rebellion,
Margaret Brent denied right to vote in General Assembly.
Religious toleration law enacted.
General Assembly divided into an Upper and Lower House.
Parliamentary commissioners hold jurisdiction over colony.
Puritans from Virginia defeated Gov. William Stone's forces at Bat-
tle of the Severn.
Lord Baltimore's claim to Maryland reaffirmed.
Slavery sanctioned by law; slaves to serve for life.
Headright system of land grants ended.
Printing press of William Nuthead used at St. Mary's City by this
date.
Maryland Revolution of 1689.
Interim government of Protestant Associators.
Crown rule; Maryland governed as a royal colony rather than as a
proprietary province.
Church of England made the established church. Royal assent to es-
tablishment act given in 1702.
Capital moved from St. Mary's City to Annapolis.
King William's School founded at Annapolis.
Restoration of proprietary rights to Charles Calvert, 5th Lord
Baltimore.
Catholic disenfranchisement.
Maryland Gazette began publication at Annapolis.
Baltimore Town established.
Establishment of boundary line with three lower counties of Penn-
sylvania, which later became Delaware.
Indian chiefs of the Six Nations relinquished by treaty all claims to
land in colony.
Tobacco inspection law enabled Maryland to control exports.
Gen. Edward Braddock's expedition through Maryland to the west.
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon surveyed boundary line with
Pennsylvania.
Stamp Act resistance at Frederick.
First Provincial Convention met at Annapolis.
Burning of the Peggy Stewart in Annapolis harbor.
"Bush Declaration" signed, Harford County.
Association of Freemen formed.
Departure of Robert Eden, Maryland's last colonial governor.
Maryland Convention declared independence from Great Britain.
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