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HISTORICAL CHRONOLOGY

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• 1600 - 1699
• 1700 - 1799
• 1800 - 1899
• 1900 - 1999
• 2000 -

Fort McHenry National Monument & Historic Shrine, 2400 East Fort Ave., Baltimore, Maryland, July 2016. Photo by Sarah A. Hanks.

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1800-1899

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1800. Alexander Brownish & Sons (at present Alex. Brownish), first investment bank in nation, founded in Baltimore.

1801. Baltimore General Dispensary founded.

1801, July 27-1805, March 4. Robert Smith (1757-1842) of Baltimore served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy.

1802. Rev. Daniel Coker (1780-1846), who had been born into slavery as Isaac Wright and subsequently escaped, ministered to black Methodists, Baltimore.

1803, Dec. 24. Elizabeth Patterson (1785-1879) of Baltimore married Jerome Bonaparte (1784-1860), brother of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), in Baltimore. Later, Jerome Bonaparte returned to France in 1805 and married German princess Catharina of W�rttemberg in 1807; Elizabeth Patterson received a divorce in America in 1815.

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1804, April xx. Baltimore Water Company formed (chartered 1792).

1805, March iii-Aug. 6. Robert Smith (1757-1842) of Baltimore served as U.S. Attorney Full general.

1806. Construction started for Basilica of the Assumption, America's first Roman Catholic cathedral. Designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, master department completed 1818.

1806. Maximilien Godefroy designed first Gothic Revival structure in United States, St. Mary's Seminary Chapel, Baltimore (completed 1808).

1807, Dec. 18. Higher of Medicine of Maryland, nation'southward offset public medical school, chartered at Baltimore by the Full general Associates.

Interior, Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 409 Cathedral St., Baltimore, Maryland, November 2015. Photograph by Sarah A. Hanks.

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1808. John Carroll became Archbishop of Baltimore, first Catholic Archbishop in U.s..

1808. Elizabeth Seton opened female person academy, Baltimore.

1809. Second Courthouse opened in Baltimore at Church building (now Lexington) St. and Washington Square.

1809, March 6-1811, Apr 1. Robert Smith (1757-1842) of Baltimore served equally U.S. Secretarial assistant of State.

Archbishop John Carroll (1735-1815) Bicentennial Memorial (1976), by Felix de Weldon (1907-2003), on southside of Duvall Wing, Prince George's County Courthouse, Upper Marlboro, Maryland, October 2009. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

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1810, Jan. vii. Washington Cotton fiber Manufacturing Visitor, Mount Washington, first in Country, incorporated.

1811. Maryland Penitentiary (at present Metropolitan Transition Middle) opened in Baltimore.

1811, Sept. vii. Hezekiah Niles began publishing in Baltimore Niles' Register, a national newspaper.

1812, June 27. Mob attacked Alexander Contee Hanson, editor of Baltimore Federal Republican, and political party.

1812, Dec. 12. Thomas Kemp, Roughshod'southward Point, launched Baltimore Clipper Chasseur, subsequently famous under command of role-owner and privateer Thomas Boyle.

1812, December. 29. College of Medicine of Maryland rechartered every bit University of Maryland, Baltimore.

1813, June 13. Chesapeake, first steamboat on Chesapeake Bay, traveled between Baltimore and Annapolis.

1814, Aug. Rembrandt Peale opened Baltimore Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts, designed past Robert Cary Long, Sr.

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1814, Sept. 13-xiv. Bombardment of Fort McHenry, commanded past Major George Armistead and dedicated by some one,000 soldiers, militiamen and sailors, lasted 25 hours. Sight of American garrison flag flying above Fort in battery'south aftermath inspired Francis Scott Central to write "Defence of Fort McHenry," which later became known as "The Star-Spangled Banner."

1814, Sept. 15. British forces retreated from Baltimore, ending the Battle of Baltimore and the Chesapeake Campaign.

Entrance to Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland, August 2010. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

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1815. Charles Reeder, Sr. established steam-engine mill and foundry, Federal Hill.

1815, July. Baltimoreans laid cornerstone for Robert Mills' Washington Monument (completed 1829).

1815, Sept. Baltimoreans laid cornerstone for Maximilien Godefroy's Boxing of North Indicate Monument (completed 1825).

Major George Armistead statue (1914), by Edward Berge, Fort McHenry National Monument & Historic Shrine, 2400 Due east Fort Ave., Baltimore, Maryland, July 2016. Photograph by Sarah A. Hanks.

Major Armistead (1780-1818) commanded American forces during Battle of Baltimore at Fort McHenry, Sept. 13-xiv, 1814, and remained as Fort commander until his death.

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1816. Delphian Club, a literary group, organized in Baltimore and met at Tusculum, home of William Gwynn, newspaper owner and editor.

1816. Locust Betoken annexed to City of Baltimore.

1816, June 11. Rembrandt Peale demonstrated gas lighting at his museum.

1816, June 13. Rembrandt Peale formed Gas Calorie-free Visitor of Baltimore, first gas visitor in land.

1816, June 17. Baltimore City Mayor and Quango passed ordinance creating Gas Light Company of Baltimore.

1817. Maryland auxiliary of American Colonization Society formed at Baltimore.

1817, Feb. 3. Baltimore boundaries extended due north to East Ave.

1817, February. v. General Associates incorporated Gas Light Company of Baltimore (Chapter 251, Acts of 1817).

1817, Feb. 7. Gas Lite Company of Baltimore lit first gas streetlamp in state on corner of Market and Lemon Streets (now Baltimore & Holliday Streets).

1818. National Route completed from Cumberland to Wheeling, now West Virginia.

1818, January. ane. Savings Bank of Baltimore, first of its kind in Land, chartered.

1818, June 2. Maryland Agricultural Gild organized, Baltimore.

1819, April 2. John Stuart Skinner published at Baltimore, The American Farmer, first agricultural journal in United states.

1819, Apr 26. Independent Order of Odd Fellows organized at Roughshod's Point, Baltimore.

1819, May five. At Outset Contained Church of Baltimore, William Ellery Channing delivered sermon defining Unitarianism, which led to germination of American Unitarian Association in 1825

1822. Isaac McKim milled flour with steam power, Baltimore, outset such operation in country.

1824. Maryland Law Institute (now Francis Male monarch Carey School of Law) at University of Maryland, Baltimore, opened.

1824. Benjamin Lundy published at Baltimore the Genius of Universal Emancipation, an anti-slavery newspaper.

1824, Aug. ix. William Pinkney Whyte (1824-1908), Governor of Maryland, born in Baltimore.

1825. Marquis de Lafayette revisited Baltimore.

1825, Nov. six. Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts (now Maryland Constitute College of Art) held starting time exhibition, American manufacturing articles.

1825, Sept. 24. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911), abolitionist and writer, born in Baltimore.

1826, Jan. 10. Maryland Establish for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts chartered.

1826. Levy Courtroom abolished; Mayor and City Quango take over Levy Courtroom powers.

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1827. Washington Medical College (1827-1839) founded in Baltimore.

1827, Feb. 28. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad chartered.

1828. Maryland and Virginia Steam Boat Company offered regular Baltimore to Norfolk service.

1828. Maryland Penitentiary directors appointed commission to recommend plans for expansion.

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum, 901 West Pratt St. (at Poppleton St.), Baltimore, Maryland, May 2013. Photo by Adam N. Wexler.

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1828, June. Baltimore Shot Tower begun.

1828, June 13. Elizabeth Lange, Maria Balas, Rosine Boegue, and Theresa Duchemin opened Oblate School for Colored Girls (at present Saint Frances University) in 5 St. Mary's Court, Baltimore.

1828, July 4. Showtime earth turned for construction of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.

Phoenix Shot Belfry, 801 East Fayette St., Baltimore, Maryland, February 2008. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

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1828, Dec. Peter Cooper (1791-1883), Columbus O'Donnell (1792-1873), William Patterson (1752-1835), and others formed Canton Company, Baltimore.

1828-1829. Peter Cooper started Canton Iron works, earliest planned industrial area in country, at Canton, Baltimore.

1829. Work began on Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad (completed to Pennsylvania line 1832).

1829. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's Carrollton Viaduct, start masonry railroad bridge in country, crossed Gwynn'south Falls.

1829, July two. Elizabeth Lange, Maria Balas, Rosine Boegue, and Theresa Duchemin took their vows and established the Oblate Sisters of Providence in Baltimore, first gild of African-American nuns in Roman Cosmic Church.

1830. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Station at Mount Clare, first in United States.

1830. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad began performance with train cars pulled past horses.

1830. Peale Museum sold after exhibits moved and became Baltimore's showtime City Hall.

1830, Feb. 25. Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, organized as Country's first Jewish congregation, incorporated at Baltimore.

1830, May 22. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad'southward showtime rider motorcar, "Pioneer," made beginning run to Ellicott Mills.

1830, Aug. 28. Race at Baltimore between Peter Cooper'southward Tom Thumb steam locomotive and a train pulled by equus caballus on Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

1830, Sept. thirty. John Lee Carroll (1830-1911), Governor of Maryland, built-in at "Homewood" in Baltimore.

1831. Heirs of John Eager Howard donated land for parks to extend due north, south, east, and west of Washington Monument, Baltimore.

1831, Feb. Maryland State Colonization Order formed in Baltimore.

1831, Sept. 26-28. Anti-Masonic Party Convention (the starting time national political convention) met in Baltimore.

1831, Dec. 12-xvi. National Republican Party Convention met in Baltimore.

1832. David Carroll and Horatio Gambrill bought Washington Manufacturing Company in Mount Washington, Baltimore.

1832, March five. Baltimore and Port Deposite Runway Road chartered (Affiliate 288, Acts of 1832).

1832, May 21-23. Commencement Democratic Party National Convention met in Baltimore.

1833, March. Washington Medical College of Baltimore incorporated.

1833, Oct. 19 Baltimore Saturday Visiter published story of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849): "Ms. Found in a Canteen," winner of $50 prize.

1834, March 24. Bank of Maryland failed.

1835. Improved Lodge of Ruby-red Men (secret congenial gild) organized Great Council of Maryland, Baltimore.

1835, Feb. 13. Courthouse'due south roof and 2nd story destroyed by fire.

1835, May twenty-23. Democratic Party National Convention met in Baltimore.

1835, Aug. 6-9. Baltimore mobs rioted following months of inaction in wake of Bank of Maryland'southward closure and damaged houses of bank directors and Mayor Jesse Hunt, among others.

1835, Aug. 25. Washington Branch of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad opened.

1836. Washington Higher Hospital (1836-1851) opened.

1837, May 17. Baltimore Sun began publication under Arunah South. Abell.

1838. Voter registration system initiated in Baltimore.

1838, February. 12. Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad Company formed.

1838, Sept. three. Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery in Baltimore.

1839. David Carroll and Horatio N. Gambrill bought Whitehall Flour Mill in Hampden-Woodberry near the Jones Falls and converted information technology into textile mill for cotton duck, the canvas for transport sails.

1839. Washington Medical College renamed Washington University of Baltimore (1839-1851).

1839, Oct. twenty. Baltimore City Council established Male Cardinal Loftier School (at present Baltimore City College).

1839, November. 14. Mercantile Library Association established in Baltimore.

1840, Feb. i. Baltimore College of Dental Surgery (now Schoolhouse of Dentistry), globe'due south start dental college, founded in Baltimore.

1840, March xviii. Baltimore Steam Parcel Company (Old Bay Line) chartered.

1840, Apr two. Washingtonian Full Abstinence Society (Washingtonian movement, Washington Temperance Society) founded in Baltimore.

1840, May 5-6. Democratic Party National Convention met in Baltimore. First convention at which a Party platform was adopted when delegates decided that federal authorities part not divers past Constitution should exist decided by state regime.

1841, Jan. Maryland College of Chemist's shop (now School of Pharmacy) founded in Baltimore.

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1844, Jan. Maryland Historical Society (now Maryland Heart for History & Civilization) founded in Baltimore.

1844, May i. First motorbus lines began operating in Baltimore.

1844, May 1. Whig Party National Convention met in Baltimore.

Maryland Historical Social club, 201 West Monument St., Baltimore, Maryland, Dec 2006. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

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1844, May 24. Samuel F. B. Morse demonstrated telegraph line, sent first telegraph message, "What hath God wrought", from Supreme Courtroom in Washington, DC, to Mount Clare Train Station in Baltimore.

1844, May 27-29. Democratic Political party National Convention met in Baltimore.

1845. Lloyd Street Synagogue constructed in Baltimore, first Maryland synagogue, a Robert Cary Long, Jr., design.

Lloyd Street Synagogue, Lloyd St., Baltimore, Maryland, April 2008. Photograph by Diane F. Evartt.

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1845. Baltimore and Cuba Smelting and Mining Company began operations in Locust Point, Baltimore.

1845. Baltimore Marine Hospital synthetic at Fairfield.

1846. Cross Street Market opened in Federal Hill between Charles St. and Patpsco St.

1846. Hollins Market place opened at Hollins St. and Arlington Ave.

1846. James Corner opened first transatlantic packet line, Baltimore to Liverpool.

1847. Improved Order of Red Men (secret fraternal lodge) formed Corking Council of the The states in Baltimore.

1848, May 22-25. Democratic Party National Convention met in Baltimore.

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1849. Thomas Kensett, Jr. began canning oysters in Baltimore.

1849, Oct. vii. Edgar Allan Poe died in Baltimore.

1850. Dominicus Iron Building, Baltimore's first all-iron structure, built.

1850, Feb xviii. President St. Station (Philadelphia, Wilmington, & Baltimore Railroad) opened in Baltimore.

1850, June 3. Calvert Station (Baltimore & Susquehanna Railroad), largest railroad final in country, opened in Baltimore.

1851. Washington University of Baltimore closed.

1851, June ix. Charles J. Bonaparte (1851-1921), U.Due south. Attorney General and U.Southward. Secretary of the Navy, built-in in Baltimore.

Tombstone of Edgar Allan Poe & Maria Clemm, Westminster Presbyterian Cemetery, West Fayette St. & Greene St., Baltimore, Maryland, Baronial 2018. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

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1851. Three-masted clipper Seaman, Baltimore, established speed tape for canvas (94 days) from San Francisco to Cape Henry.

1851, July 4. Baltimore City, as a governmental unit, separated from Baltimore County.

1852. Baltimore boundaries extended.

1852. Loyola College (now Loyola University Maryland), Baltimore, founded.

1852, April 24. Merchants and Miners Transportation incorporated in Baltimore to begin coastal shipping service.

1852, June 1-five. Democratic Party National Convention met in Baltimore.

1852, June 17-20. Whig Party National Convention met in Baltimore.

1852, July 22-1853, March seven. John Pendleton Kennedy (1795-1870) of Baltimore served every bit U.South. Secretary of the Navy.

1852, July 27-29. Statewide convention of gratuitous blacks, Baltimore.

1852, November. eighteen. Evangelical groups formed Young Men's Christian Clan (YMCA), Baltimore.

1853. Henry Sonneborn, Baltimore, began manufacturing clothing.

1853. Baltimore, Carroll, and Frederick Railroad organized, later became Western Maryland Railroad.

1854. Union Protestant Hospital (at present MedStar Union Memorial Hospital) established.

1854-1859. Ascension of Know Cypher Political party; Baltimore riots named metropolis "Mobtown."

1855. Mary Whitridge, Baltimore-congenital clipper ship, sailed from Cape Henry to English Channel in tape-setting 12 days and 7 hours.

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1856. Camden St. Station (Baltimore & Ohio Railroad), Baltimore, opened.

1856. Hebrew Chivalrous Society (formerly United Hebrew Assistance Club, at present The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore) incorporated at Baltimore.

Model showing horses pulling train car between President St. & Camden Stations, Baltimore, Baltimore Civil War Museum at President St. Station, 601 South President St., Baltimore, Maryland, May 2016. Photograph by Sarah A. Hanks.

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1856, Sept. 17-xviii. Whig Political party National Convention met in Baltimore.

1856, Oct. & & Nov. 4. Election violence, known every bit Know-Goose egg Riots, took place in Baltimore.

1857. Bank of Baltimore failed during Panic of 1857.

1857. Baltimore gentlemen formed Maryland Club.

1857. Washington Higher Hospital reopened as Church Home and Infirmary Infirmary.

1857, Jan. 2. Martha Carey Thomas (1857-1935), president of Bryn Mawr College and founder of Bryn Mawr School for girls, born in Baltimore.

1857, February. Peabody Institute founded in Baltimore by philanthropist George Peabody (affiliated with The Johns Hopkins University in 1977). It was starting time university of music established in United States.

1859, July 26. Starting time Baltimore horsecar line, began operating from Broadway to Baltimore St. and North St.

1860. Irish gaelic-born population of Baltimore City peaked (fifteen,536 of 212,418).

1860, May 9. Constitutional Spousal relationship Party formed in Baltimore.

1860, June xviii-23. Democratic Political party National Convention (first assembled at Charleston, South Carolina, April 23 - May three, 1860) reconvened in Baltimore

1860, October. 19. Druid Hill Park opened, Baltimore.

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1861. Peabody Establish (later due west wing) opened in Baltimore.

George Peabody (1795-1869) statue (1869), by William W. Story, before Peabody Institute, Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, Maryland, March 2009. Photo past Diane F. Evartt.

A Baltimore merchant who moved to London, George Peabody became a philanthropist and diplomat. He established the first charitable foundations in America and England, and founded the Peabody Institute at Baltimore in 1857.

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1861, Apr 19. Sixth Massachusetts Union Regiment attacked by Baltimore mob in outset bloodshed of the Civil War.

1861, May 13. Brig. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler's Union forces occupied Baltimore.

1861, June 27. Military arrested Baltimore's Marshall of Police George P. Kane and imprisoned him at Fort McHenry. Police Committee suspended.

1861, July i. Military machine arrested Baltimore'southward Police Commissioners and imprisoned them at Fort McHenry.

Exhibit showing 6th Massachusetts Infantry attacked by Baltimore mob on April 19, 1861, Baltimore Civil State of war Museum at President St. Station, 601 South President St., Baltimore, Maryland, May 2016. Photo past Sarah A. Hanks.

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1861, Sept. 12. Severn Teackle Wallis of Baltimore and other members of Full general Assembly arrested by Union soldiers at Frederick.

1864, Apr xviii. President Abraham Lincoln addressed Baltimore Sanitary Fair, organized by Maryland women for U.S. Sanitary Commission.

1864, June vii-eight. National Wedlock Party [Republican Party] National Convention met in Baltimore.

1864, Nov. 1 Maryland slaves emancipated by Maryland Constitution of 1864. To celebrate, under direction of Baltimore City Council, five hundred guns were fired, bells were rung, and flags displayed "to adjure the joy of the people at their cracking deliverance."

1865. Chesapeake Marine Railway and Dry out Dock Company, first black-owned business organization in Country, established in Baltimore by Isaac Myers.

1865, July. Banking company of Baltimore reorganized as National Depository financial institution of Baltimore.

1866. First library of Peabody Institute opened in Baltimore.

1866, Aug. xx. National Labor Marriage, the first national labor marriage in America, organized in Baltimore and lobbied Congress to authorize an eight-hour work twenty-four hour period.

1866-1869. Thomas G. Swann (1806-1883) of Baltimore served every bit Governor of Maryland.

1867. Centenary Biblical Institute chartered under auspices of Methodist Episcopal Church; later became Morgan State University.

1867. Isaac Freeman Rasin won election to clerkship, Baltimore Urban center Court of Mutual Pleas.

1867. Lavinia Dundore organized Maryland Equal Rights Society in Baltimore to piece of work for suffrage.

1867, March 23. Washington University of Baltimore reorganized (1867-1877) and Maryland Free Hospital established (Chapter 170, Acts of 1867).

1867, Nov. 27. Knights of Pythias formed in Baltimore.

1868. Regular steamship service between Baltimore and Bremen inaugurated by Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and North German Lloyd.

1869, July. Isaac Myers and blackness caulkers in Baltimore formed national black labor spousal relationship.

1870. University of Maryland School of Law reopened.

1870, May. Baltimore African Americans parade to celebrate passage of Fifteenth Amendment to U.S. Constitution.

1870, Oct. 27. Maryland Jockey Lodge sponsored racing at Pimlico Race Course.

1871, Dec. Lafayette Market place (now Artery Market place) opened at Pennsylvania Ave.

1872. Western Maryland Railroad completed line, Hagerstown to Baltimore.

1872, Oct. 8. College of Physicians and Surgeons (1872-1915) incorporated in Baltimore.

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1872, July ix-10. Democratic Party National Convention met in Baltimore.

1873, May 23. Showtime Preakness Stakes, second race of Triple Crown, held at Pimlico Race Grade.

1873, Sept. 21. School Sisters of Notre Dame established Notre Dame of Maryland Collegiate Found for Young Ladies (at present Notre Dame of Maryland University), Baltimore, first Catholic women's higher in The states.

1874. Baltimore boundaries extended.

1875. Work began on east wing (now George Peabody Library) of Peabody Institute (completed 1878).

1875, Oct. 25. Designed by Baltimore architect George A. Frederick, new Baltimore Urban center Hall dedicated, replacing old city hall in Peale Building, which formerly held the Peale Museum.

Metropolis Hall, 100 Northward Holliday St., Baltimore, Maryland, June 2006. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

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1876, Oct. iii. The Johns Hopkins University opened in Baltimore, founded past philanthropist Johns Hopkins.

1877, July xx-22. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad strike; workers went on strike forth line, demonstrated in Cumberland, struck and rioted at Baltimore.

1877. Presbyterian Centre, Ear and Throat Charity Infirmary opened on Baltimore Street (airtight & consolidated in 1960 with Hospital for the Women of Maryland to form Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Baltimore County).

1877. Washington University of Baltimore'southward franchise transferred to College of Physicians and Surgeons.

1878, March 27. Washington University of Baltimore merged into Higher of Physicians and Surgeons.

1878, Sept. 2-1889, Sept. 3. Male and Female Colored School no. one, showtime Baltimore high school for African Americans, held in former Urban center Hall (former Peale Museum).

1878, June 24. William Chiliad. Brooks with The Johns Hopkins University established Chesapeake Zoological Laboratory at Fort Wool, Hampton Roads.

1878, Aug. Young men of Baltimore Able-bodied Social club returned from Newport, Rhode Island, with lacrosse sticks.

1878. Knights of Labor organized, Baltimore.

1879, Jan. Telephone commutation opened on corner of Baltimore & South Streets, Baltimore, first in State.

1880, July ane. Consolidated Gas Company of Baltimore formed from merger of Consumers' Mutual Gas-light Company of Baltimore City, Gas-light Visitor of Baltimore, and People's Gas Company of Baltimore.

1880. Electrical energy debuted in Maryland at Sun Building, Baltimore.

1881, Sept. Baltimore Medical College and its educational activity facility, Maryland General Infirmary (now Academy of Maryland Medical Center Midtown Campus), incorporated (merged with Academy of Maryland School of Medicine in 1913).

1881, October. 10-12. Oriole Festival, an effect like to Mardi Gras, historic opening of Loch Raven Reservoir.

1882, Feb. xx. Woman'due south Medical College of Baltimore (1882-1910) incorporated.

1882, Sept 12-14. Second Oriole Festival held.

1882. Baltimore reformers won "skilful judges" ballot.

1882. Baltimore Orioles, owned by Harry R. Von der Horst, founded as a squad in newly-formed American Clan professional baseball league.

1882. Hospital for the Women of Maryland, 2nd women's infirmary in nation, opened in Bolton Loma, Baltimore (closed & consolidated in 1960 with Presbyterian Center, Ear and Throat Charity Hospital to form Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Baltimore County).

1882. University of Maryland opens Dental Department (now School of Dentistry).

1882. Adult female�south Industrial Substitution incorporated.

1883, Sept eleven-13. Third Oriole Festival held.

1883. Colored High and Training School (now Frederick Douglass High School) opened, Baltimore.

1883. Baltimore Federation of Labor organized.

1884, Jan.-1885, March 27. Robert M. McLane (1815-1898) of Baltimore served as Governor of Maryland.

1884. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad opened 22-sided polygonal Passenger Car Shop (now Roundhouse), a blueprint past E. Francis Baldwin and largest circular industrial building in world, Baltimore.

1885, Aug. 10. Baltimore to Hampden Line of Baltimore-Union Passenger Railway Company converted from horse-drawn to electrical streetcars, first commercial electric street railway in land.

1885. Northeast Market established at East Monument St.

1885. Baltimore civic leaders established Baltimore Reform League.

1885. African-American leaders established Mutual Brotherhood of Freedom, Baltimore's first civil rights organization.

1885. Woman'south Higher of Baltimore chartered past Methodists, later became Goucher College.

1885. Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore, founded by Martha Carey Thomas.

1886. Linotype machine perfected by Ottmar Mergenthaler, Baltimore.

1886, Jan. v. Enoch Pratt Free Library, the gift of Enoch Pratt, opened in Baltimore.

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1888. Voters due north and west of Baltimore City agreed to looting.

1889. Henrietta Szold opened night school for immigrants in Baltimore, first of its kind in nation.

1889, May 7. The Johns Hopkins Hospital defended in Baltimore.

1889, May 25. Lillie Carroll Jackson (1889-1975), civil rights activist, born in Baltimore.

1889, Dec. fourteen. Maryland Academy Hospital Training School for Nurses (now University of Maryland School of Nursing) opened at Baltimore.

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 600 North Wolfe St., Baltimore, Maryland, July 2012. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

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1890. Morgan Higher (now Morgan State University) formed from Centenary Biblical Institute.

1890. German-born population of Baltimore City peaked (41,930 of 365,863).

1890. Harry Southward. Cummings, African American, won seat on Baltimore Metropolis Quango.

1890, Jan. 25. Columbian Fe Works, Baltimore, launched Bohemian, first steel tanker ship in Us.

1891. Charles H. Grasty assumed control of Baltimore Evening News.

1892, Aug. 13. Baltimore Afro-American founded past John H. Murphy, Sr.

1892, Dec. Sheppard Asylum for the mentally sick founded by Moses Sheppard, opened to patients; afterward became Sheppard-Pratt Hospital.

1893, Oct. The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine opened in Baltimore, accepting women.

1894. Baltimore women formed Arundell Club.

1894. Provident Infirmary, Baltimore, founded by William T. Carr and William H. Thompson.

1894. Baltimore Orioles won their first professional baseball title.

1895. Maryland State Bar Association held first convention.

1895, Nov. Reformers carried Baltimore City and State elections.

1896-1900. 3rd Courthouse erected in Baltimore at Lexington St. and St. Paul St.

1896, November. 17. Herbert R. O'Conor (1896-1960), Governor of Maryland, built-in in Baltimore.

1897. Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., planned west side of Roland Park (company organized 1891).

1897, Feb. Maryland Public Health Clan formed, Baltimore.

1898. Baltimore obtained reformed city lease.

1898. Maryland Medical College of Baltimore (1898-1913) founded.

1899, Jan. Baltimore Municipal Fine art Society formed to adorn public buildings, streets, and open spaces.

1899, Dec. one. Maryland Federation of Women'southward Clubs organized at Baltimore.

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