70V Maryland Manual

1775, March 22 .........
1775, July 26 ...........
1776, June 26 ..........
1776, July 3 ...........
1776, July 4 ...........

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

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

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 .................
1803 .................
1807, Dec. 18 ..........

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

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 ..........

"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.
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 En-
gland disestablished.
First State Constitution adopted by Ninth Convention.
Continental Congress met at Baltimore.
First General Assembly elected under State Constitution of 1776 met
at Annapolis.
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 Confed-
eration. Maryland sent no representatives.
Maryland ratified Federal Constitution.
Maryland ceded land for District of Columbia.
Baltimore City incorporated.
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.
Free blacks disenfranchised.
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
interpreted 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.