Benedict Leonard Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore, 10th Proprietary Governor of Maryland (21 March 1679 – 16 April 1715) was an English nobleman and politician.
Maryland Puritans, by now a substantial majority in the colony, revolted against the proprietary government, in part because of the apparent preferment of Catholics to official positions of power.
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August 14 – Robert Hayman (died 1629) poet, colonist and Proprietary Governor of Bristol's Hope colony in Newfoundland; his book, 'Qvodlibets ("What you will"), published in 1628, was the first book of English poetry written in what would become Canada.
Robert Hayman, Qvodlibets ("What you will"), the first book of English poetry written in what would become Canada, written by the Proprietary Governor of Bristol's Hope colony in Newfoundland
Robert Hayman was the colony's only Proprietary Governor as this colony only existed until about 1631 before being abandoned.
Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore (1699–1751), Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland
Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore (1637–1715), second Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland
In that year, William Stone (c. 1603–1659), the third proprietary governor of Maryland, was resisting the commissioners of Parliament for the government of that province.
Sir Richard Everard, 4th Baronet (c.1683–1733), Proprietary Governor of North Carolina