CHRONOLOGY

1606

  • – Virginia Company receives royal charter.

1607

  • – English colonists found Jamestown; Pocahontas “rescues” John Smith.

1617

  • – Pocahontas dies in England.

1618

  • – Powhatan dies; Opechancanough becomes Algonquian chief.

1619

  • – House of Burgesses begins to meet in Virginia.

1622

  • – Opechancanough launches an assault on English settlers in Virginia.

1624

  • – Virginia becomes a royal colony.