Timeline Wednesday 21 April 1649

Events on Wednesday 21 April 1649 1

• 1649 Maryland Toleration Act Passed Colonial Maryland legislates religious toleration for Christians On 21 April 1649, the colonial assembly of Maryland passed the Act Concerning Religion, guaranteeing freedom of worship to Trinitarian Christians, including both Catholics and Protestants. It was among the first laws in English North America to protect religious toleration, though it imposed the death penalty for denying the Trinity. The act was repealed a few years later amid political upheaval in the colony.