In 1775, he was a delegate to the Maryland Convention, an extralegal body convened after the colonial assembly had been prorogued.

When the Continental Congress had adopted Adams's radical May 15 preamble, Maryland's delegates walked out and sent to the Maryland Convention for instructions.

On May 20, the Maryland Convention rejected Adams's preamble, instructing its delegates to remain against independence, but Samuel Chase went to Maryland and, thanks to local resolutions in favor of independence, was able to get the Maryland Convention to change its mind on June 28.

Although Southerners disliked the New Yorker Van Buren as well as his intended running mate, Colonel Richard Mentor Johnson of Kentucky, Van Buren secured the nomination at a meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, at the 1835 Democratic National Convention.

The 1852 Whig National Convention, held in Baltimore, Maryland, was bitterly divided.

On September 6, 1776, the Maryland Constitutional Convention agreed to a proposal introduced by Thomas Sprigg Wootton wherein Frederick County, the largest and most populous county in Maryland, would be divided into three smaller units.

Ocean City is home to the annual Maryland State Firefighters Convention.

* " Intervention " ( Convention ), an annual Internet Culture convention held in Rockville Maryland

* Baltimore Convention Center, in downtown Baltimore, Maryland

Of partial German ancestry, Shriver was a descendant of David Shriver, who signed the Maryland Constitution and Bill of Rights at Maryland's Constitutional Convention of 1776.

The Baltimore Convention Center is a convention and exhibition hall located in downtown Baltimore, Maryland.

As was the case with Harborplace, which opened in 1980 ; the Maryland Science Center, which opened in 1976 ; and the National Aquarium in Baltimore, which opened in 1981, the Convention Center was intended to be a catalyst for tourism, an important part of the City's post-manufacturing economic development plans.

" ( Controversy, 2005, p. 3 ) A report on economic development in the area, entitled Subsidizing the Low Road: Economic Development in Baltimore, states that " public and non-profit facilities such as the Maryland Science Center, the World Trade Center, the Convention Center, and the National Aquarium " ( Subsidizing, 2002, p. 11 ) were part of then-mayor Schaefer's " focus on real estate, retailing and tourism sectors " ( p. 10 ), as areas for growth, as well as his utilization of "' public / private partnerships ' to pursue economic development " ( p. 11 ).

During the next two decades, due in part to the success of the Convention Center and the other attractions, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards, M & T Bank Stadium, Power Plant Live !, and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History, have joined the area, creating a ten-block plus entertainment and cultural destination at Baltimore's Inner Harbor, further increasing tourist dollars flowing into the region.

Thus some — most notably Baltimore's former Mayor and now Governor of Maryland Martin O ' Malley — feel that a hotel adjacent to the Convention Center will make it a more appealing site for conventions.

On July 18, 2011, the Baltimore Sun reported that the Baltimore Convention & Tourism Board approved to take $ 50, 000 out of Visit Baltimore's budget to pay for the $ 150, 000 feasibility study that the Maryland Stadium Authority approved on June 14, 2011.

As of April 24, 2012, the project is moving forward, on March 5, 2012, the feasibility report was published and made public jointly by the Maryland Stadium Authority and Baltimore City which strongly makes the recommendation for expanding the Baltimore Convention Center and building a new arena to replace 1st Mariner Arena and that if no action is taken, it will harm Baltimore's tourism industry in the long run, the study found that " Market research indicates that there is a significant demand for additional space at the Convention Center to host more, larger, and simultaneous events.

The west end of the facility — corner of Pratt and Howard Street — is served by the Convention Center / Pratt Street Station of the Maryland Transit Administration's light rail system, providing direct links to both BWI Airport and Baltimore Penn Station ( MARC Penn Line and Amtrak Northeast Corridor trains ).

But the Maryland militia had likewise fled, all too typical of this type of soldier during the Revolution, an experience which gave Morgan little confidence in militia in general, as he watched other instances of their breaking in hot engagements.

Colonel Benjamin Ford wrote to Morgan from Wilmington that he understood a Mrs. Sanderson from Maryland had obtained permission from Smallwood to visit Philadelphia, and would return on May 26th, escorted by several officers from Maryland `` belonging to the new levies in the British service ''.

In Maryland the Harford County Board of Education had prepared a desegregation plan which the Court approved but which a plaintiff had challenged ; ;

In 1995, Art Modell, who had purchased the Browns in 1961, announced he was relocating the team to Baltimore, Maryland.

Many colonial settlers came to Delaware from Maryland and Virginia, which had been experiencing a population boom.

Most of the free African-American families in Delaware before the Revolution had migrated from Maryland to find more affordable land.

Skinner and Key were there to negotiate the release of prisoners, one of whom was Dr. William Beanes, a resident of Upper Marlboro, Maryland who had been arrested after putting rowdy stragglers under citizen's arrest.

He won all the same states that his father had won in the election of 1800: the New England states, New Jersey, and Delaware, as well as parts of New York and a majority of Maryland.

Virginia's land claims had partially overlapped with those by Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and possibly others.

Hanson had no extended formal education while growing up in Maryland, but he read broadly in both English and Latin.

" Good Charlotte, from Maryland, had three successive top ten albums beginning with The Young and the Hopeless in 2002.

On 21 February 2008 Philips had completed its acquisition of VISICU Baltimore, Maryland through the merger of its indirect wholly owned subsidiary into VISICU.

On September 14, 2001, an Indian American motorist and three family members were pulled over and ticketed by a Maryland state trooper because their car had broken taillights.

By age five, she had begun composing instrumental pieces on piano and, while living in Rockville, Maryland, she won a full scholarship to the Preparatory Division of the Peabody Conservatory of Music.

The state of Maryland had levied a tax on banks not chartered by the state ; the tax applied, state judges ruled, to the Bank of the United States chartered by Congress in 1816.

Only Maryland and New York had yet to authorize independence.

He knew that the Dutch had established deeds for the lands east of the river ( New Jersey ), but not for the lands to the west ( Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania ).

Word of her exploits had encouraged her family, and biographers agree that she became more confident with each trip to Maryland.

The girl had left behind a twin brother and a loving home in Maryland.

Students of Professor John F. Banzhaf III from the George Washington University Law School, collectively known as Banzhaf's Bandits, found four residents of the state of Maryland willing to put their names on a case and sought to have Agnew repay the state $ 268, 482 — the amount it was said he had taken in bribes.

The remaining state, Maryland, had five Federalist representatives to three Republicans ; one of its Federalist representatives voted for Jefferson, forcing that state delegation also to cast a blank ballot.

In poor health, he died a year later at his nephew's plantation Oxon Hill Manor in Prince George's County, Maryland, on November 22, 1783. The grave site has been lost.

Others propose she may have been recruiting more escaped slaves in Canada, and Kate Clifford Larson suggests she may have been in Maryland, recruiting for Brown's raid or attempting to rescue more family members.

In 1948, ENIAC was moved from the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering, where it had been conceived and designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, to the Ballistic Research Laboratory in Aberdeen, Maryland.

The races themselves have been moved from the waters of Florida to the United States Naval Surface Warfare Center's Carderock Division David Taylor Model Basin in Bethesda, Maryland, and are held biennially.

As early as 1819, Chief Justice John Marshall noted in the famous case McCulloch v. Maryland, that " the opinions expressed by the authors of that work have been justly supposed to be entitled to great respect in expounding the Constitution.

Confederate armies had been on the move earlier in the fall, invading Kentucky and Maryland, and although each had been turned back, those armies remained intact and capable of further action.

McClellan had stopped Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Antietam in Maryland, but had not been able to destroy Lee's army, nor did he pursue Lee back into Virginia aggressively enough for Lincoln.

Miocene fossils have been found in both California and Maryland, but the greater diversity of fossils and tribes in the Pacific leads most scientists to conclude that it was there they first evolved, and it is in the Miocene Pacific that the first fossils of extant genera are found.

The Chesapeake Bay and Maryland region has generally been associated more with crabs, but in recent years the area has been trying to reduce its catch of blue crabs, as wild populations have been depleted.

The actual term ' genomics ' is thought to have been coined by Dr. Tom Roderick, a geneticist at the Jackson Laboratory ( Bar Harbor, ME ) over beer at a meeting held in Maryland on the mapping of the human genome in 1986.

The Braddock Road had been opened by the Ohio Company in 1751 between Cumberland, Maryland, the limit of navigation on the Potomac River, and the French Fort Duquesne at the forks of the Ohio River, a site that would later become Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

* May 4, 1956: in Prince George's County, Maryland, 15-year-old student Billy Prevatte fatally shot one teacher and injured two others at Maryland Park Junior High School in Prince George's County after he had been reprimanded from the school.

The Preakness Stakes has been termed " The Run for the Black-Eyed Susans " because a blanket of Viking daisies, decorated to look like Black-eyed Susans ( Rudbeckia hirta, the state flower of Maryland ) is traditionally placed around the winner's neck.

His letters from Fort Inge and Fort Ewell have been preserved by the Maryland Historical Society.

Though it has been largely eclipsed by California's production, the area still produces significant quantities of tomatoes, green beans, corn, soy beans — Queen Anne's County is the largest producer of soy beans in Maryland — and other popular vegetables.

Many other universities and educational institutions of the United States have been involved in the development of the project and its instruments, namely the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Stanford University, Penn State University ( ARL ), Boston College, UCLA, Clemson University, Dartmouth College, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland, College Park, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MIT, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, and the University of Tulsa.

These " inalienable rights " had been conferred by the State of Maryland, prior to conversion to a national capital, and are revoked, or not enforced by the US Congress.