1901
Progressive Teddy Roosevelt becomes president

1905
Poe Amendment defeated

1908
Reform Democrat Austin Crothers becomes governor

1910
Maryland urban population exceeds 50 percent of the total state population
Maryland passed the first injury compensation law in the nation

1912
Reform Republication Phillips Lee Goldsborough becomes governor

1913
Progressive Democrat Woodrow Wilson becomes president; 16th and 17th Amendements ratified

1914
World War I begins in Europe

1916
Maryland National Guard begins training

1917
United State declares war against Germany; Blshevik Revolution in Russio

1917-1918
C oldest winter on record.
Armistice in Europe

1919
18th Amendment ratified

1920
Democrat Albert C. Ritchie becomes governor
19th Amendment ratified

1921
Republican Warren G. Harding becomes president

1922
United Mine Workers strike in western Maryland

1923
Harding dies.
Calvin Coolidge becomes president

1924
Potomac River flood destroys C&O canal

1925
Scopes trial

1927
Lindbergh flies solo across Atlantic ocean

1929
Drought cripples Maryland farmers
Republican Herbert Hoover becomes president; stock market crash

1931
Baltimore Trust Company fails

1932
Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act

1933
23,0000 Baltimore families on relief
Democrat Franklind Roosevelt becomes president
"100" days programs first New Deal’
21st Amendment ratified

1935
R epublican Harry Nice becomes governor
Murray case overturns segregation at UM Law School
Federal Relief Act creates WPA

1937
Congress of Industrial Organization organizes in Maryland
Glenn L. Martin Company and Beth Steel get orders for war materials from Europe

1939
World War II begins in Europe

1940
Peacetime Selective Service Act

1941
Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor

1945
FDR dies
Harry S. Truman becomes president
Germany surrenders
Atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Japan surrenders

1946
First suburban department store opens in Silver Spring
Beginning of a national baby boom

1947
Democrat William Preston Lane, Jr. become governor
Truman doctrine and Marshall Plan

1949
ober Law
NATO formed
Communist revolution in China
First Soviet nuclear test

1950-1953
Korean War

1951
Republicaton Theodore R. McKeldin becomes governor

1952
Chesapeake Bay Bridge opens

1953
Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower elected preseident

1954
Baltimore public schools desegregated Brown v. Board of Ed

1955
Maryland Port Authority created

1957
Harbor Tunnel opens
Soviet satellite Sputnik launched

1959
Democrat J. Millard Tawes becomes governor

1961
Charles Center construction begins in Baltimore
JFK inaugurated

1962
Cuban missile crisis

1963
JFK assassinated
Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president

1964
Civil Rights Act

1965
Voting Rights Act

1967
Republican Spiro Agnew becomes governor
convention attempts to revise Maryland Constitution

1968
Baltimore riots
MLK assassinated
RFK assassinated

1969
Democrat Marvin Mandel becomes governor
Richard Nixon becomes president; Agnew becomes Vice-President
first man walks on the moon

1973
Agnew resigns
Vietnam war ends

1974
Nixon resigns
Gerald Ford becomes president

1975
Mandel indicted for bribery

1977
Jimmy Carter becomes president

1979
Harry Hughes becomes governor

1981
Ronald Reagan becomes president

1982
Sandra Day O’Connor joins Supreme Court

1985
Chesapeake Bay preservation legislation passed