> CHRONOLOGY

1606

  • Virginia Company receives royal charter.

1607

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

1607–1610

  • Starvation plagues Jamestown.

1617

  • Pocahontas dies in England.

1618

  • Powhatan dies; Opechancanough becomes Algonquian chief.

1619

  • House of Burgesses begins to meet in Virginia.

1622

  • Opechancanough leads first uprising in Virginia.

1624

  • Virginia becomes royal colony.