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Captain John Smith explores the Chesapeake Bay
Smith and a crew of 14 men set out on a voyage up the Bay in a small, wooden boat called a shallop. Smith traveled north along the Bay's eastern shore to the Nanticoke River. He then crossed the Bay and explored its western shore as far north as the Patapsco River. -
Slavery allowed in Maryland
The slavery they had was not big plantations or on farms not much of that at all. What it did consist of was being servants or maids for the wealthy. -
Annapolis became the capital of Maryland
Relocation of Maryland Capital. The new Protestant Maryland governor Sir Francis Nicholson relocated the capital from St. Mary's City to the more central Annapolis -
England’s Queen Anne grants Annapolis its City Charter
The Puritans named their new settlement Providence. In 1650, Lord Baltimore, the overseer of the colony, granted a charter to the county that surrounded Providence. He named it Anne Arundel County after his beloved wife, Anne Arundel, who had died shortly before at the age of thirty-four. -
Baltimore is founded
The city is named after Cecil Calvert, second Lord Baltimore (1605–1675), of the Irish House of Lords and founding proprietor of the Province of Maryland. -
Mason-Dixon Line established as Maryland's northern boundary
On this day in 1767, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon complete their survey of the boundary between the colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland as well as areas that would eventually become the states of Delaware and West Virginia. -
Four Marylander's sign the Declaration of Independence
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, and Charles of Carroll of Carrollton signed the Declaration of Independence and they were from Maryland. -
Annapolis became the first capital in the U.S
the Treaty of Paris was ratified there on January 14, 1784, so Annapolis became the first peacetime capital of the U.S. -
Maryland became the 7th U.S State
Maryland Becomes the Seventh State in the Union. Maryland was the seventh state to ratify the United States Constitution and has two nicknames, the Old Line State and the Free State. -
Maryland gave up some land to Washington D.C
Half of the district was in Maryland and the other half was in Virginia, and the two states gave this land to the government. In 1791, it was named Washington, the District of Columbia to honor George Washington. Columbia was another name for North America. -
St. Micheals attacked
Branded “The town that fooled the British,” St. Michaels avoided destruction by British invasion on August 10, 1813, when residents—forewarned of an imminent attack—turned off all their lights and attached lanterns to the masts of ships and the tops of trees, causing cannons to overshoot the town. The only house to be struck became known as the “Cannonball House.” -
The star Spangled banner was made
On September 14, 1814, while witnessing the British bombard Fort McHenry in an attempt to capture Baltimore during the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics to “The Star-Spangled Banner.” In 1931, the United States adopted the song as its national anthem. -
Chesapeake and Delaware Canal opened, linked Chesapeake Bay with Delaware River
The Chesapeake & Delaware Canal is a 14-mile-long, 450-foot-wide and 35-foot-deep ship canal that connects the Delaware River with the Chesapeake Bay in the states of Delaware and Maryland in the United States. The C&D Canal is owned and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Philadelphia District. -
#1 1830-the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company built the first railroad station in Baltimore.
Civil War-era deployment by rail of soldiers from one theater of operations to another. The reinforcements began their journey on cars powered by locomotives belonging to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. -
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad’s first 13 miles of track connect Baltimore to Ellicott City, where America’s first railroad terminal opens in 1831
America's First Major Railroad Station. On January 7, 1830, America's first significant railroad station was opened in Baltimore as the eastern terminus of the recently formed Baltimore and Ohio (B & O) Railroad. -
Baltimore Sun newspaper begins publication
History. The Sun was founded on May 17, 1837, by printer/editor/publisher/owner Arunah Shepherdson Abell (often listed as "A.S. Abell") and two associates, William Moseley Swain, and Azariah H. Simmons, recently from Philadelphia, where they had started and published the Public Ledger the year before. -
World first telegraph
Sent by inventor Samuel F.B. Morse on May 24, 1844, over an experimental line from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, the message said: "What hath God wrought?" -
The United states naval academy was founded
The United States Naval Academy was founded on October 10th, 1845 at Annapolis and is still open to this date. The acceptance rate is %9 which is quite low. James K. Polk and George Bancroft established the United Naval Academy and the purpose for creating it was to train people to become Marines. -
Destined to write nevermore, Edgar Allan Poe dies while traveling in Baltimore. He is laid to rest at a memorial grave in the Westminster Burying Ground in Baltimore.
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. -
The battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam in Sharpsburg on September 17, 1862, was the first attack on Union soil during the Civil War and the bloodiest one-day battle in U.S. history with more than 23,000 soldiers killed. Although it ended in a draw, President Abraham Lincoln used General Robert E. Lee’s retreat to Virginia as an opportunity to issue his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, warning seceded states to return to the Union before the end of the year or their slaves would be declared free. -
Slavery ended in Maryland on November 1, 1864.
The Maryland General Assembly wrote a new constitution for the state that made slavery illegal after that date. Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that ended slavery. Maryland outlawed slavery almost a year later. -
The first passenger train from Washington, D.C., arrives at Chesapeake Beach
a new resort town with a casino and race track. Today, Chesapeake Beach and its sister city, North Beach, are known more for boutiques, eateries and quiet beach fun -
Babe Ruth, the Sultan of Swat, was born in Baltimore and attended Saint Mary's Industrial School.
Babe Ruth, one of the most famous baseball players ever attended a school in Baltimore, Maryland. He was born in Maryland in 1895 and died in 1948. He died from Esophageal cancer in 1948 and his net worth was about 800,000 or $8,428,170.94 in today's money. -
Fire destroyed downtown Baltimore
The Great Baltimore Fire raged in Baltimore, Maryland, United States on Sunday, February 7 and Monday, February 8, 1904. -
Wilbur Wright conducts flight training for military aviators at a new airfield and hangar in College Park, recognized today as the world’s oldest continually operating airport
The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur, were two American aviators, engineers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who are generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane. -
Elkton factory explosion killed 15 workers
charred ruins of five Triumph Explosives, Inc., buildings on the outskirts of this small war boom city seeking additional bodies while investigating officials sought to determine cause of an explosion in which 15 persons are known to have died. -
Desegregation of public schools began
The desegregation of the county's schools, which this latest plan is intended to bring about, has been a slow, piece meal process since the 1954 Supreme Court decision, in large part because of a “freedom of choice” policy that was in effect for a decade. The public schools in the county in 1954 were offidially segregated; there were 24 separate black schools. Now there are about 40,000 black students, or about one‐quarter of the total. -
Thurgood Marshall becomes first African-American Justice of the Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall was an American lawyer, serving as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African-American justice. -
Rioting occurred in Baltimore and Washington, D. C. following Dr. Martin Luther King assassination.
The immediate cause of the riot was the April 4 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee, which triggered unrest in 125 cities across the United States. -
Annapolis celebrated 300-year anniversary as Maryland's capital
The Maryland State House housed the workings of the United States government from November 26, 1783, to August 13, 1784, and the Treaty of Paris was ratified there on January 14, 1784, so Annapolis became the first peacetime capital of the U.S.
