1606 |
- Virginia Company receives royal charter.
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1607 |
- English colonists found Jamestown; Pocahontas “rescues” John Smith.
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1607–1610 |
- Starvation plagues Jamestown.
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1612 |
- John Rolfe begins to plant tobacco in Virginia.
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1617 |
- First commercial tobacco shipment to England.
- Pocahontas dies in England.
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1618 |
- Powhatan dies; Opechancanough becomes Algonquian chief.
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1619 |
- First Africans arrive in Virginia.
- House of Burgesses begins to meet.
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1622 |
- Opechancanough leads first uprising in Virginia.
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1624 |
- Virginia becomes royal colony.
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1630s |
- Barbados colonized by English.
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1632 |
- Colony of Maryland founded.
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1634 |
- Colonists begin to arrive in Maryland.
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1640s |
- Barbados colonists grow sugarcane with slave labor.
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1644 |
- Opechancanough leads second uprising.
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1660 |
- Navigation Act requires colonial products be shipped only to English ports.
- Virginia law defines slavery as inherited, lifelong servitude.
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1663 |
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1670 |
- Charles Towne, South Carolina, founded.
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1670–1700 |
- Slave labor system emerges in Carolina and Chesapeake colonies.
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1676 |
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1680 |
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