Cecil Calvert: Proprietary Founding and Governance of Maryland

Cecil Calvert

An English nobleman, politician, lawyer, and the 2nd Baron Baltimore. Inheriting the North American colonial project from his father, George Calvert, he became the first Proprietor of Maryland after receiving a royal charter for the Maryland Colony from Charles I in 1632. He never emigrated to Maryland himself, instead governing the colony from England by dispatching his younger brother, Leonard Calvert, and others as governors. As a Roman Catholic, he sought to develop Maryland into a colony where Christians of different denominations, including Catholics, could coexist, and was involved in the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649.

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Year	Cecil Calvert
1605	Birth of Cecil Calvert (Period: August 8, 1605, Location: Kingdom of England, Kent (present-day Kent region in southeastern England))
1621	Matriculation at Trinity College (Cecil Calvert, Age: 15 years old, Period: 1621, Location: Oxford, England)
1628	Involvement in Father George Calvert's Colonial Ventures (Age: 22 years old, Period: 1628, Location: Avalon Colony, Newfoundland) Marriage (Cecil Calvert, Anne Arundel, Age: 22 years old, Period: 1627 or 1628, Location: England (specific wedding location limited in verifiable sources))
1629	Appointment as Governor of Avalon Colony (Cecil Calvert, Age: 23 years old, Period: 1629–1632, Location: Avalon Colony, Newfoundland)
1630	Promotion of Religious Tolerance Policies (Cecil Calvert, Age: 24 years old, Period: 1630s–1649, Location: Maryland Colony)
1632	Appointment as Proprietor of Maryland Colony (Cecil Calvert, Age: 26 years old, Period: 1632, Location: England and Maryland, North America) Long Reign as 2nd Baron Baltimore (Cecil Calvert, Age: 26 years old, Period: 1632–1675, Location: England and Maryland Colony) Succession as 2nd Baron Baltimore (Cecil Calvert, Age: 26 years old, Period: April 1632, Location: England) Obtaining the Charter for the Maryland Colony (Cecil Calvert, Age: 26 years old, Period: June 20, 1632, Location: England, London area, and Maryland region, North America)
1633	Maryland Settlement Expedition via the Arc and Dove (Age: 27 years old, Period: 1633–1634, Location: Gravesend, Isle of Wight, Chesapeake Bay, St. Clement's Island) Execution of the Maryland Settlement Plan (Age: 27 years old, Period: 1633–1634, Location: England, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland)
1634	Policy of Religious Tolerance in Maryland Colony (Age: 28 years old, Period: After 1634, Location: Maryland Colony) Proxy Governance of Maryland Colony (Cecil Calvert, Age: 28 years old, Period: 1634–1675, Location: England and Maryland Colony) Establishment of the St. Marys Colony (Age: 28 years old, Period: March 1634, Location: St. Marys, present-day St. Mary's County, Maryland)
1644	Armed Conflicts in Maryland Colony Related to the English Civil War (Age: 38 years old, Period: 1644–1646, Location: Maryland Colony, St. Marys, Kent Island, Chesapeake Bay area) Armed Conflicts Between Maryland Colony and William Claiborne (Age: 38 years old, Period: Around 1635, 1644–1646, Location: Kent Island, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland Colony) "Plundering Time" in Maryland (Age: 38 years old, Period: 1644–1646, Location: Maryland Colony, St. Marys, Kent Island)
1649	Passage of the Maryland Toleration Act (Age: 43 years old, Period: April 21, 1649, Location: St. Marys, Maryland Colony)
1650	Third English Civil War and Rule by Protestant Factions in Maryland (Age: 44 years old, Period: 1650s, Location: England and Maryland Colony)
1654	Protestant Rule over Maryland (Age: 48 years old, Period: 1654–1658, Location: Maryland Colony)
1658	Restoration of Maryland Proprietary Rights (Age: 52 years old, Period: 1658, Location: Maryland Colony)
1675	Death of Cecil Calvert (Age: 70 years old, Period: November 30, 1675) Death and Succession to the 3rd Baron Baltimore (Cecil Calvert, Age: 70 years old, Period: November 30, 1675, Location: Middlesex, England)

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East India Company	James Lancaster John Davis William Keeling Henry Middleton Thomas Best Thomas Roe Josiah Child Gerald Aungier Job Charnock
Expansion into North America	John Smith John Winthrop William Bradford William Penn James Oglethorpe Cecil Calvert John Cabot
Science and Astronomy	Galileo Galilei Johannes Kepler Francis Bacon René Descartes William Harvey Robert Boyle Robert Hooke Christiaan Huygens Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Isaac Newton Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Arts and Culture	Peter Paul Rubens Rembrandt van Rijn Diego Velázquez Johannes Vermeer Anthony van Dyck Giovanni Battista Lulli Antoine Watteau

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