Province of Maryland
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Was an English and later British colony in North America that existed from 1632.
Establishment
June 1632: In 1632, the territory that is now Maryland was granted to the English Lord Baltimore by King Charles I.
Chronology
Interactive Chronologies with maps are available in the section Changes Navigation
Were a series of conflicts fought intermittently during the 17th century in North America throughout the Saint Lawrence River valley in Canada and the lower Great Lakes region which pitted the Iroquois League against the Hurons, northern Algonquians and their French allies.
January 1657: The Iroquois defeated and assimilated the Erie Tribe.
January 1671: Iroquois expansion in the Susquehannas territories.
January 1673: Iroquois expansion in the Susquehannas territories.
January 1678: In 1677, the Iroquois adopted the majority of the Iroquoian-speaking Susquehannock into their nation.
January 1680: Iroquois expansion until 1679.
Were a series of conflicts mainly fought between the Dutch Republic and England (later Great Britain) from mid-17th to late 18th century.
2.1.Third Anglo-Dutch War
Was a conflict between the Dutch Republic and England, in alliance with France.
September 1673: The Dutch recaptured New Netherland from England with a fleet of 21 ships led by Vice Admiral Cornelius Evertsen and Commodore Jacob Binckes.
March 1674: The Treaty of Westminster concluded the Third Anglo-Dutch War and ceded New Netherland to England.
Was a revolution in England and Scotland that led to the deposition of Catholic King James II.
November 1688: By November 1688 William of Orange, who was Stadtholder of the Netherlands, and his wife Mary, were in control of England and Wales. They would later become King and Queen of Great Britain.
Were fought by European governments and colonists in North America, and later by the United States and Canadian governments and American and Canadian settlers, against various American Indian and First Nation tribes.
4.1.Cherokee-American wars
Were a series of skirmishes between the Cherokee and the American settlers on the frontier.
October 1768: To address the issue of settlers living beyond the boundaries established by earlier treaties, John Stuart, the Superintendent for Southern Indian Affairs, negotiated a treaty on October 17, 1768. This agreement resulted in the Cherokee surrendering their claims to lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the Colony of Virginia. This territory now encompasses most of West Virginia and eastern Kentucky, as well as a portion of southwestern Pennsylvania.
Was the war of independence of the United States of America (at the time the Thirteen Colonies) against Great Britain.
July 1776: United States Declaration of Independence: the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule.
January 1639: Leonard Calvert captured Kent Island by force in February 1638.
January 1653: In the peace treaty of 1652 the Susquehannock ceded to Maryland large territories on both shores of the Chesapeake Bay in return for arms and for safety on their southern flank.
January 1654: In 1653, the territory under the leadership of Johan Björnsson Printz, governor from 1643 to 1653, expanded along the river from Fort Christina. This territory was part of New Sweden, a Swedish colony in North America.
January 1665: The first European settlers in Delaware were the Swedes and the Dutch, with the land eventually coming under English control in 1664. This transfer of power was a result of the Second Anglo-Dutch War, during which the English successfully captured the Dutch colony of New Netherland, which included present-day Delaware.
March 1681: Maryland lost some of its original territory to Pennsylvania in the 1660s when King Charles II granted the Penn family, owners of Pennsylvania, a tract that overlapped the Calvert family's Maryland grant.
March 1702: As William III of England was also the de facto ruler of the Dutch Republic (as Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic), the Personal Union between Netherlands and Great Britain ended at his death.
Disestablishment
July 1776: United States Declaration of Independence: the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule.
Selected Sources
5 Nations Expansion. Wikipedia. Retrieved on 30 March 2024 on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:5NationsExpansion.jpg
Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
Israel, J. I. (1995): The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, Clarendon Press, pp. 959-960
Jennings, F. (1968). Glory, Death, and Transfiguration: The Susquehannock Indians in the Seventeenth Century. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 112(1), 15–53. http://www.jstor.org/stable/986100
Rayback, R.J. (1957): Atlas of New York State, Frank E. Richards, p. 12
Steele, I. K. (1994): Warpaths: Invasions of North America, Oxford University Press, p. 64
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