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Two years later, Charles Benedict Calvert (1808–1864), a future U.S. Representative (Congressman) and descendant of the first Lord Baltimore, purchased 420 acres (1.7 km 2) of the Riversdale Mansion estate nearby today's College Park, Maryland. [16] Later that year, Calvert founded the school and was the acting president from 1859 to 1860. [17]
On March 6, 1856, the forerunner of today's University of Maryland was chartered as the Maryland Agricultural College.Two years later, Charles Benedict Calvert, a slaveowner, descendant of the Barons Baltimore, fervent believer in agricultural education, and a future U.S. Congressman, purchased 420 acres (1.7 km 2) of the Riversdale Plantation in College Park for $21,000.
The University of Maryland, Baltimore was founded in 1807 as the Maryland College of Medicine. In 1812, it was rechartered as the University of Maryland and given the authority to establish additional faculties in law, divinity, and arts and sciences. The faculty of law was founded in 1816, though it operated intermittently until 1868.
Asbury College founded. Delphian Club founded. [12] 1819 - Independent Order of Odd Fellows founded. 1820 - Population: 62,738 people; 1821 Maryland Academy of Science and Literature established. [5] Basilica consecrated. 1822 - Adelphi Theatre opens. [13] 1823 - Athenaeum founded. [14] 1826 - Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the ...
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1975 – Chinese Historical Society of Southern California founded. 1976 – Los Angeles City Historical Society founded. [63] 1977 – X (musical group) formed. 1978 L.A. Weekly begins publication. President Carter makes his first visit (May 4) Los Angeles Conservancy founded. 1979 – Sister city relationship established with Taipei, Taiwan. [55]
After the Spanish colonial era the Presidio of Sonoma in Sonoma, California was founded in 1834. [39] Founded by Vicente Francisco de Sarría in 1817, Mission San Rafael Arcángel, was the last mission founded during the Spanish period. To support the presidios and the missions, half a dozen towns (called pueblos) were established in California.
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