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The three ships found the land of Virginia.
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Over half of the colonist died. Eather from starvation or some where attacted by Indians.
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Paspahegh Indians attack the Colonists, killing two and wounding ten.
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The Council finds President Edward M. Wingfield guilty of libel and he is deposed John Ratcliffe takes his place.
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Smith was elected to be President of the Virginia council.
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De la Warr set out to rebuild the colony in earlie june.
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Captain Argall captured Pocahontas and brought her to Jamestown as a hostage.
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Pocahantas married John Rolfe.
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Rolfe shiped his first load of Tobacco to England.
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Sir Walter Raleigh executed for treason in England
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They all meet in the choir of the Jamestown church. It first law requires Tobacca to be sold for at least three shillings per pound.
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The assembly adopted the Virginia companys instructions and passed some new laws.
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Twenty blacks are purchased from a passing Portuguese slave ship from Luanda Angola, to Vera Cruz. They may not have been the first, since some 32 Africans were noted five months earlier in a Virginia census of 1619.
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Ninety young women are transported to Virginia to be wifes. the Virginia Company prices them at one hundredth and fiftie pounds of leafe Tobacco.
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The Mayflower sails from Holland and England to America to make a new colony called the plymoth. they are the they pilgrams.
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The Powhatan Indian Attack kills 347 colonists. setting off a war that lasted a decade.
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Opechonough led powhatan indians in an uprise, killing 1/3rd of the 1,200 colonist in Virginia.
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In Bermuda, the Seaflower got blown up due to the negligence of the Captains son.
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The Virginia Company lost their charter. Then Virginia becomes a royal province due to mismanagement of the colony.
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Virginia became a Royal Colony.
