issues charter for the colony of Maryland (named in honor of Henrietta Maria), under control of Lord Baltimore.
1781Articles of ConfederationArticles of Confederation The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, commonly known as the Articles of Confederation...
ratified by 13th state, Maryland.
1788 Maryland ratifies the United States ConstitutionUnited States Constitution The United States Constitution is the supreme law [i] of the United States of America [i]. ...
and becomes the 7th U.S. stateU.S. state A state of the United States is any one of the fifty subnational entities referred to as a state [i] ...
.
1862American Civil WarAmerican Civil War The American Civil War was a sectional conflict in the United States of America [i] between the federal ...
: In the ConfederacyConfederate States of America The Confederate States of America was the government formed by eleven southern states of the USA [i] ...
's first invasion of the North, General Robert E. LeeRobert E. Lee Robert Edward Lee was a career U.S. Army [i] officer and the most successful general of the Confederate [i] ...
leads 55,000 men of the Army of Northern VirginiaArmy of Northern Virginia The Army of Northern Virginia was the primary military force of the Confederate States of America [i] in ...
across the Potomac RiverPotomac River The Potomac River flows into the Chesapeake Bay [i], located along the mid-Atlantic [i] c ...
at White's Ford near Leesburg, Virginia, into Maryland.
1973 Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice President of the United StatesUnited States The United States of America, also known as the United States, the U.S., the U.S.A., a...
and then, in federal court in BaltimoreBaltimore, Maryland Baltimore is an independent city [i] located in the U.S. state [i] of Maryland [i] on the eastern coast ...
, pleads no contest to charges of income taxIncome tax An income tax is a tax [i] levied on the financial income [i] of persons, corporations or other legal en...
evasion on $29,500 he received in 1967, while he was governor of Maryland. He is fined $10,000 and put on three years' probation.
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