Capsule Chronology/9

1747 ....................Tobacco inspection law enabled Maryland to control quality of exports.

1755 ....................Gen. Edward Braddock's expedition through Maryland to the west.

1763-1767 ...............Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon surveyed boundary line with

Pennsylvania.

1765, Nov. 23.............Stamp Act resistance at Frederick.

1772, March 28............Cornerstone laid for State House in Annapolis.

1774, June 22.............First Provincial Convention met at Annapolis.

1774,  Oct. 19 .............Burning of the Peggy Stewart in Annapolis harbor.

1775,  March 22............"Bush Declaration" signed, Harford County

1775,  July 26..............Association of Freemen formed.

1776,  June 26.............Departure of Robert Eden, Maryland's last colonial governor.

1776, July 4...............Declaration of Independence adopted in Philadelphia. Engrossed

copy signed by Marylanders William Paca, Charles Carroll of Car-
rollton, Thomas Stone, and Samuel Chase.

1776, July 6...............Maryland Convention declared independence from Great Britain.

1776, Nov. 3..............Declaration of Rights adopted by Ninth Convention. Church of England

disestablished.

1776, Nov. 8..............First State Constitution adopted by Ninth Convention.

1776,  Dec. 20-1777, March 4. Continental Congress met at Baltimore.

1777,  Feb. 5 ..............First General Assembly elected under State Constitution of 1776 met at

Annapolis.

1781, March 1.............Maryland ratified, and thereby made effective, the Articles of

Confederation.

1781, Nov. 5..............John Hanson elected President of the United States in Congress

Assembled.

1782 ....................Washington College established at Chestertown.

1783, Nov. 26-1784, June 3.. Continental Congress met at Annapolis.

1783,  Dec. 23.............Washington resigned commission as commander in chief of Continental

Army at State House in Annapolis.
1784 ....................St. John's College established at Annapolis.

1784,  Jan. 14..............Treaty of Paris, ending Revolutionary War, ratified by Congress at

Annapolis.

1785,  March 28............Mt. Vernon Compact, an agreement on navigation and fishing in Potomac

and Chesapeake Bay; signed by Maryland and Virginia commission-
ers.

1785, Aug................China trade begun with arrival of Canton cargo at Baltimore.

1785,  Nov. 22.............Mt. Vernon Compact ratified by Maryland.

1786,  Sept. 11-14..........Annapolis Convention held to discuss revisions to Articles of

Confederation. Maryland sent no representatives.

1787,  Sept. 17.............U. S. Constitution signed by Marylanders Daniel Carroll, James McHenry,

and Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, at Philadelphia.

1787,  Nov. 29.............Luther Martin's report, The Genuine Information, criticized proposed U. S.

Constitution, including its omission of a bill of rights.

1788,  April 28.............Maryland, the seventh state, ratified U. S. Constitution.

1789,  Dec. 19.............Maryland ratified Bill of Rights, first ten amendments to U. S.

Constitution.

1791, Dec. 19.............Maryland ceded land for District of Columbia.

1796 ....................Baltimore City incorporated.

1802 ....................Property qualification for voting removed in local elections.

1803 ....................Viva voce voting at elections changed to voting by ballot.

1807, Dec. 18.............University of Maryland chartered as the College of Medicine of Maryland.