Protestant Revolution (Maryland)

Part of Glorious Revolution

Date	1689-1692
Location	Province of Maryland
Result	Catholic Christianity was banned, from the Province of Maryland, until 1776, in the beginning of American Revolution

Belligerents

Maryland Catholics

Maryland proprietary colonial militia

Maryland Puritans

Protestant associators (Puritan volunteer militia)

Commanders and leaders

Baron Baltimore (Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore)

Governor Henry Darnall

Governor John Coode

Governor Nehemiah Blakiston

Strength

(700 men)

Casualties and losses

Maryland Catholics

Maryland Puritans

Baron Baltimore (Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore)

Governor John Coode

The Protestant Revolution of 1689, sometimes called "Coode's Rebellion" after one of its leaders, John Coode, took place in the Province of Maryland when Puritans, by then a substantial majority in the colony, revolted against the proprietary government led by the Roman Catholic Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore. The rebellion followed the "Glorious Revolution" in England of 1688, which saw the Protestant Monarchs William III and Mary II, replace the English, Catholic monarch, King James II. The Lords Baltimore lost control of their proprietary colony, and for the next 25 years, Maryland would be ruled directly by the British Crown. The Protestant Revolution also saw the effective end of Maryland's early experiments with religious toleration, as Catholicism was outlawed, and Roman Catholics forbidden from holding public office. Religious toleration would not be restored in Maryland until after the American Revolution.

Maryland had long practiced an uneasy form of religious tolerance among different groups of Christians. In 1649, Maryland passed the Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, a law mandating religious tolerance for trinitarian Christians. Passed on September 21, 1649 by the assembly of the Maryland colony, it was the first law requiring religious tolerance in the British North American colonies. The Calvert family, who had founded Maryland partly as a refuge for English Catholics, sought enactment of the law to protect Catholic settlers and those of other religions that did not conform to the dominant Anglicanism of England and her colonies.

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