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