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=== Colonial & early United States (1649-1808) ===
[[Image:Annapolis_State_House.jpg|left|thumb|200px|[[Maryland State House]]]]
A settlement named Providence was founded on the north shore of the [[Severn River]] in [[1649]] by [[Puritan]] exiles from [[Virginia]], led by [[William Stone]]. Robinwood is where all the niggaz shoot each other. Natty Light can be found at A Dub. The settlers moved to a better-protected harbor on the south shore and the town bore in succession the names of Town at Proctor's, Town at the Severn, [[Anne Arundel]]'s Towne after the wife of [[Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore|Lord Baltimore]] who died soon afterwards.The city became very wealthy through the slave-trade. It was only in [[1694]] when Sir [[Francis Nicholson]] moved the [[capital]] of the royal [[colony]] there, soon after overthrow of the Catholic government of the lord proprietor, that the town received the name which is holds today, Annapolis, named for [[Anne of Great Britain|Princess Anne]], soon to be the [[monarch]] of [[Great Britain]]; but it was not until [[1708]] that it was incorporated as a city. From the middle of the 18th century until the War of Independence, Annapolis was noted for its wealthy and cultivated society. The ''Maryland Gazette'', which became an important weekly journal, was founded by [[Jonas Green]] in [[1745]]; in [[1769]] a theatre was opened; during this period also the commerce was considerable, but declined rapidly after Baltimore, in [[1780]], was made a port of entry, and [[oyster]]-packing became the city's only important industry. Currently Annapolis is home to a large number of recreational boats that have largely replaced the seafood industry in the city.
Annapolis became the temporary capital of the [[United States]] after the signing of the [[Treaty of Paris (1783)|Treaty of Paris]] in [[1783]]. Congress was in session in the state house here from [[November 26]], [[1783]] to [[June 3]], [[1784]], and it was here on [[December 23]], [[1783]] that General Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army. In [[1786]] a convention, to which delegates from all the states of the Union were invited, was called to meet in Annapolis to consider measures for the better regulation of commerce; but delegates came from only five states ([[New York]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[Virginia]], [[New Jersey]], and [[Delaware]]), and the convention -- known afterward as the "[[Annapolis Convention]]" -- without proceeding to the business for which it had met, passed a resolution calling for another convention to meet at [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia]] in the following year to amend the Articles of Confederation. By this Philadelphia convention, the present Constitution of the United States was framed. In [[1808]] the importation of slaves was prohibited by the Congress.(The ancestors of [[Alex Haley]] were deported from Gambia to Annapolis.)
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