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Roanoke Island
In 1584 an English fort and settlement with more than 100 men was established on the north end of the island, but it was abandoned the following year due to weather, lack of supplies and poor relations with the Native Americans. On August 18, one of the colonists, Eleanor Dare, gave birth to the first English-speaking child in the New World, Virginia Dare. -
spanish armada
The Spanish Armada was a Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from A Coruña in August 1588, under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England -
jamestown
the first town in the United States. The Virginia Company of England made a daring proposition. The first permanent British settlement in North America. -
colonist can own land
He sought to reward investors and so distributed 100 acres of land to each adventurer. He also distributed 50 acres to each person who paid his or her own way and 50 acres more for each additional person they brought along. -
The house of burgesses
After his arrival in Jamestown in 1619, Governor George Yeardley immediately gave notice that the Virginia colony would establish a legislative assembly. This assembly, the House of Burgesses, first met on July 30, 1619. -
King James cancels charter
King James declares Jamestown first royal colony for England in America. -
Virginia company sends women
Virginia company send 90 women to jamestown. -
King James declares Royal Colony
the lodon company founded Virginia during the reign of james 1. Jamestown was founded before the desire to gain wealth. Virginia became a royal colony in 1624. -
James VI
After the death of Queen Elizabeth I, James VI of Scotland becomes James I upon ascending to the English throne. -
Dutch Bring Africans
Historians normally date the start of slavery in the North American colonies to 1619. That year, a captured Portuguese slave ship carrying 50 African men, women, and children, docked at Point Comfort, which served as Jamestown's checkpoint for ships wanting to trade with the colonists. The crew of the ship was starving, and as John Rolfe noted in a letter to the Virginia Company's treasurer Edwin Sandys, they traded 20 African slaves for food and supplies.
