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Baltimore was the origin of a major railroad workers' strike in 1877 when the B&O company attempted to lower wages. On July 20, 1877, Maryland Governor John Lee Carroll called up the 5th and 6th Regiments of the National Guard to end the strikes, which had disrupted train service at Cumberland in western Maryland.
In the same year Baltimore city's Czech population was 2,206, 0.3% of the city's population. [13] 27,603 people of Czech descent lived in the greater Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area. [14] As of 2011, immigrants from the Czech Republic were the fifty-eighth largest foreign-born population in Baltimore. [15]
The flag of Maryland. The recorded history of Maryland dates back to the beginning of European exploration, starting with the Venetian John Cabot, who explored the coast of North America for the Kingdom of England in 1498. After European settlements had been made to the south and north, the colonial Province of Maryland was granted by King ...
In the same year Baltimore city's Hungarian population was 1,245, 0.2% of the city's population. [27] Hungarians first began to immigrate to Baltimore during the 1880s, along with other Eastern Europeans. [110] They tended to embark from Bremen, Germany and then settle in the neighborhood of Locust Point, alongside other European immigrants. [85]
In the same year Baltimore city's French population (excluding Basques) was 4,721, 0.7% of the city's population. There were also 824 French-Canadians, 0.1% of the population. [4] As of 2011, immigrants from France were the forty-fifth largest foreign-born population in Baltimore. French (including patois and Cajun) was the fourth most common ...
St. Mary's City (also known as Historic St. Mary's City) is a former colonial town that was founded in March 1634, as Maryland's first European settlement and capital. [5] It is now a state-run historic area, which includes a reconstruction of the original colonial settlement and a designated living history venue and museum complex.
The Indigenous peoples of Maryland are the tribes who historically and currently live in the land that is now the State of Maryland in the United States of America. These tribes belong to the Northeastern Woodlands, a cultural region. Only 2% of the state's population self-reported as having Native American ancestry in the 2020 US census.
1519: Founding of Panama City by Pedro Arias Dávila. 1521: Hernán Cortés completes the conquest of the Aztec Empire. 1521: Juan Ponce de León tries and fails to settle in Florida. 1524: Pedro de Alvarado conquers present-day Guatemala and El Salvador. 1524: Giovanni da Verrazzano sails along most of the east coast.