1776, Nov. 3 ...........

1776, Nov. 8 ...........
1776, Dec. 20-1777, March 4 .
1781, March 1 ..........
1781, Nov. 5 ...........

1782 .................
1783, Nov. 26-1784, June 3 .
1783, Dec. 23. ...........

1784 .................
1784, Jan. 14 ...........

1785, Aug. .............
1785, Dec. 5 ............

1786, Sept. 11-14 ........

1788, April 28 ..........
1791, Dec. 19 ...........
1796 .................
1802 .................
1802 .................
1803 .................
1807, Dec. 18 ...........

1810 .................

1814, Aug. 24 ...........
1814, Sept. 12 ...........
1814, Sept. 13 ...........

1818 .................
1819, March 6 ..........

1824-1829 .............
1826 .................
1827, Feb. 28 ...........
1828-1848 .............
1838, Oct. 3 ............

1844, May 24 ...........

1845, Oct. 10 ...........
1850, Nov. 4-1851, May 13..
1851, June 14 ...........
1854-1859 .............

1859, Oct.6 ............
1859, Oct. 16 ...........

1861, April 19 ..........

Capsule Chronology/7

Declaration of Independence adopted in Philadelphia. Engrossed
copy signed by Marylanders William Paca, Charles Carroll of
Carrollton, Thomas Stone, and Samuel Chase.
Declaration of Rights adopted by Ninth Convention. Church of Eng-
land disestablished.
First State Constitution adopted by Ninth Convention.
Continental Congress met at Baltimore.
Maryland ratified Articles of Confederation.
John Hanson elected President of the United States in Congress As-
sembled.
Washington College established at Chestertown.
Continental Congress met at Annapolis.
Washington resigned commission as commander in chief of the Con-
tinental Army at State House in Annapolis.
St. John's College established at Annapolis.
Treaty of Paris ending Revolutionary War ratified by Congress at
Annapolis.
China trade begun with arrival of Canton cargo at Baltimore.
General Assembly endorsed Compact of 1785, an agreement with
Virginia on navigation and fishing in the Potomac and Chesapeake
Bay.
Annapolis Convention held to discuss revisions to Articles of Con-
federation. Maryland sent no representatives.
Maryland ratified Federal Constitution.
Maryland ceded land for District of Columbia.
Baltimore City incorporated.
Freeborn blacks disenfranchised.
Property qualification for voting removed in local elections.
Viva voce voting at elections changed to voting by ballot.
University of Maryland chartered as the College of Medicine of
Maryland.
Property qualification ended in voting for electors for president,
vice-president, and congressmen.
Battle of Bladensburg.
British repulsed at Battle of North Point.
Bombardment of Fort McHenry, which inspired Francis Scott Key
to write "Star-Spangled Banner."
National Road completed from Cumberland to Wheeling.
In M'Culloch v. Maryland, U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall in-
terpreted Constitution to signify implied powers of federal govern-
ment.
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal constructed.
Jewish enfranchisement.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad chartered.
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal constructed (to Cumberland by 1848).
Governor and State senators first elected by voters rather than by
legislature.
Samuel F. B. Morse demonstrated telegraph line from Washington,
D.C., to Baltimore.
U. S. Naval Academy founded.
Constitutional Convention of 1850-1851.
Second State Constitution adopted.
Rise of Know Nothing Party. Baltimore riots caused city to be
known as "Mobtown."
Maryland Agricultural College opened at College Park.
John Brown's raid launched from site in Maryland on federal arsenal
at Harper's Perry.
Sixth Massachusetts Regiment of Union troops attacked by Balti-
more mob.