The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century

Virginia Company

Oct 7, 1606

The Virginia Company receives royal charter.

Jamestown

Oct 1, 1607

English colonists found Jamestown settlemtent; Pocahontas "rescues" John Smith

Jamestown Plague

Oct 7, 1610

Starvation plagues Jamestown

A Crop Saves Jamestown

Oct 7, 1612

John Rolfe begins to plant tobacco in Virginia

Algonquians

Oct 8, 1617

Powhatan dies; Opechancanough becomes chief of the Algonquians

Tobacco

Oct 8, 1618

First commercial tobacco shipment leaves for England; Pocahontas dies in England

Slavery

Oct 8, 1619

First Africans arrive in Virginia; House of Burgesses begins to meet in Virginia.

Uprising Against Virginia

Oct 8, 1622

Opechancanough leads first Indian uprising against Virginia colonists

A Royal Colony

Oct 8, 1624

Virginia officially becomes a royal colony.

Barbados

Oct 8, 1630

Barbados colonized by English.

Colony of Maryland

Oct 8, 1632

King Charles I grants Lord Baltimore land for colony of Maryland

Colony of Maryland

Oct 8, 1634

Colonists begin to arrive in Maryland

Sugarcane

Oct 8, 1640

Barbados colonists begin to grow sugarcane with labor of African slaves

Second Indian Uprising

Oct 8, 1644

Opechancanough leads second Indian uprising against Virginia colonists

Navigation Act

Oct 8, 1660

Navigation Act imposes mercantilist requirement that colonial products to be shipped only to English ports; Virginia law defines slavery as inherited, lifelong servitude

Carolina

Oct 8, 1663

Royal charter granted for Carolina colony

Charles Towne

Oct 8, 1670

Charles Towne, South Carolina, founded

Slave Labor

Oct 8, 1670

Slave labor system emerges in Carolina and Chesapeake colonies.

Rebellion

Oct 8, 1676

Bacon's rebellion

Revolt

Oct 8, 1680

Pueblo Revolt