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English arrived in significant numbers and created a permanent colony. Owned by Lord Baltimore, named Maryland after Queen Mary. The first settlement was made by a company of about twenty gentlemen and three hundred artisans and laborers.
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Law-making assembly of freemen met at St. Mary's City.
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Richard Ingle leads rebellion against proprietary government. In this time, Maryland was full of both Catholic Royalists and Puritan Roundheads; the government was catholic, and not all of the citizens were very happy about this.
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Margaret Brent denied right to vote in General Assembly. First women in the new world to request this right.
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Passage of the Maryland Toleration Act, the first of its kind in our history. Provided that "no person or persons whatsoever within this province, professing to believe in Jesus Christ, shall from henceforth be any ways troubled, molested, or discountenanced for, or in respect to, his or her religion."
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Parliamentary commissioners displace proprietary regime.
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