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Timeline
| Pre- 17th Century | The Land and Its People | c. 10,000 BC |
First humans arrive in the land that will become Maryland |
c. 1500 BC |
Oysters become an important source of food | |
| c. 800 AD |
Native Americans begin to use the bow and arrow to hunt. They also learn how to grow some plants for food | |
c. 1200 AD |
Native-Americans [Woodland Indians] begin to settle in permanent villages | |
| 17th Century | Voyage to Marie's Land | 1608 |
Captain John Smith explores the Chesapeake Bay |
1631 |
English explorers establish a trading post on Kent Island | |
1632 |
King Charles I grants Maryland Charter to Cecilius Calvert | |
| 1633 |
About 140 English settlers set sail for Maryland on the Ark and Dove | |
1634 |
Ark and Dove arrive at St. Clement's Island | |
| The Colony Begins (1634-1640) | 1634 |
Colonists settle in St. Mary's City |
1635 |
First General Assembly (law-making assembly of freemen) meets at St. Mary's City | |
1632 |
King Charles I grants Maryland Charter to Cecilius Calvert | |
1635 |
A Relation of Maryland published by Jerome Hawley and John Lewger (London) | |
1638 |
The Assembly claims the right to introduce its own laws | |
| The Colony Grows (1640-1700) | 1642 |
Mathias de Sousa participates in the Maryland Assembly |
| 1648 |
Margaret Brent is denied the right to vote in the General Assembly | |
| 1662 |
Leonard Calvert's house becomes the colony's first state house | |
1664 |
Enslavement of Africans is required by law in Maryland | |
1667 |
St. Mary's City becomes the first official city in Maryland | |
1685 |
William Nuthead sets up a printing press in St. Mary's City | |
1689 |
Maryland Revolution of 1689 | |
1695 |
Annapolis becomes the capital of Maryland | |
1698 |
Parliament opens the slave trade to all merchants. Slave imports increase in Maryland | |
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