Maryland Timeline of Events

Home / Timelines / Maryland

Maryland

Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...

Timeline of Events

1634

3.25.1634

The first settlers arrive in Maryland.

1738

5.25.1738

A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.

1767

10.18.1767

Mason-Dixon line, survey separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.

1788

4.28.1788

Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.

1838

9.3.1838

Dressed in a sailor's uniform and carrying identification papers provided by a Free Black seaman, future abolitionist Frederick Douglass boards a train in Maryland on his way to freedom from slavery.

1844

5.24.1844

Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a Bible quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland to inaugurate the first telegraph line.

1861

4.29.1861

American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union.

1877

7.21.1877

After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.

1963

12.8.1963

Pan Am Flight 214, a Boeing 707, is struck by positive lightning and crashes near Elkton, Maryland, United States, killing all 81 people on board.

1973

8.8.1973

U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew appears on television to denounce accusations he had taken kickbacks while governor of Maryland.

1978

9.5.1978

Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin peace process at Camp David, Maryland.

1996

5.6.1996

The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.