1800
Congress meets in Washington, DC
1801
Thomas Jefferson becomes president
1803
Property requirements for voting abolished
1807
Medical College of Maryland established
Chesapeake Affair; Embargo
1812
Anti-Federalist violence in Baltimore
War of 1812
1814
Defense of Baltimore
Washington DC burned by British troops
1816
Bethel AME Church formed in Baltimore
1817
Construction of Erie Canal begun
1826
Religious test for voting and office holding removed
1828
Construction of C&O Canal and B&O Railroad begun
1829
Cross-Cut Canal opened
Andrew Jackson becomes president
1831
Nat Turner rebellion
1833
Bank of United States crisis
1835
Chief Justice John Marshall dies
1836
Eight Million Dollar Act
Roger B. Taney appointed chief justice
1837
Reform Act
Carroll County formed
1850
C&O Canal reaches Cumberland
Compromise of 1850
1851
New Maryland Constitution adopted
Howard County formed
Gorsuch raid
1852
Uncle Tom’s Cabin published
1853
B&O Railroad reaches Wheeling
1854
Kansas-Nebraska Act
1856
Know-Nothing Millard Fillmore carries Maryland
1857
Democrat James Buchanan becomes president
1858
Know-Nothing Thomas Hicks becomes governor
Dred Scott decision
1859
John Brown’s raid
1860
Democrat John Breckinridge carries Maryland
Republican Abraham Lincoln elected president
South Carolina secedes from the Union
1861
Baltimore mob attacks federal troops
John Merryman case
Lincon becomes president
Confederate government formed
Fort Sumter, SC fired upon
Lincoln calls for 75000 volunteers
1862
Battle of Antietam
1863
First Maryland draft
First black regiments organized
Emancipation Proclamation
First draft instituted
Battle of Gettysburg
1864
New Maryland Constitution adopted
Jubal Early’s raid
1865
Confederacy surrenders at Appomattox
Lincoln assassinated
1866
Democrat Thomas Swann becomes governor
Reconstruction begins
1867
New Maryland Constitution adopted
Wicomico County formed
1870
Black men vote
15th Amendment ratified
enfranchisement of black males
1872
Garrett County formed
1876
Johns Hopkins University opens
1877
Radical Reconstruction ends in the South
1880
Arthur Pue Gorman elected to the US Senate
1881
Charity Organization Society founded in Baltimore
1882
Married Women’s Property Act
1885
Reform League organized
Democrat Grover Cleveland becomes President
1889
Steel plant opens at Sparrows Point
1890
Harry Cummings, Maryland’s first black elected official, elected to the Baltimore City Council
1893
Financial panic and depression
1894
Maryland Woman Suffrage Association founded
1896
Reform Republican Lloyd Lowndes becomes governor
1898
Hawaii annexed
