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Maryland's state-birthday date is April 28, 1788, when its convention ratified the United States Constitution, seventh among the original states. That familiar date, recorded by the U.S. Senate, marks entry into the new federal constitutional system. It does not mean Maryland first acquired a state government that morning: independence and its first state constitution had come in 1776. Maryland's longer story runs from Indigenous Chesapeake communities through colonial settlement, the American R …