Timeline of Jamestown

  • Jamestown was founded

    Jamestown was founded by Capt. John Smith and some other people. Captain John Smith sailed to Jamestown on the ships Susan Constant, The Discovery, and Godspeed.
  • The Settlement of Jamestown

    The Jametown Colony is being built and the James Fort is completed.
  • The Failed Expedition

    John Smith leads expedition up the Chichahomony in search of food. Later in the expedition he is captured by Chief Powhatons tribe.
  • Pocahantis

    John Smith is captured and sent to Chief Powhaton. Powhaton was going to kill Smith but Powhatons daughter Pocahantis saves John Smith.
  • John Smiths Injury

    John Smith gets badly injured in a gun powder explosion and is forced to go back to England. Then Jamestown starts to fall apart.
  • The Arrival of more Colonists

    100 new settlers arrive in The Deliverince and Patience. Lord De La Warr arrives on one of these ships.
  • Lord De la Warr

    Lord de la warr arrives and prevents 250 people from leaving Jamestown. Then he starts rebuilding the failing colony.
  • Pocahontase's life

    Pocahontas died at age 22. But before she died she savedJohn Smiths life. Married John Rolfe, and had a son with John Rolfe. Pocahontas was born in 1695 and died in 1617. In the movie Pocahontas had a raccoon named Meeko.
  • House of Burgesses

    Virginias House of Burgesses meets for the first time.
  • Indentured servants and salves

    The first indentured servants and African slaves arrive in Virginia.
  • The First Law

    The Virginia House of Burgesse creates the first law that requires tobacco to be soldfor at least 3 shillings per pound. John Rolfe discoveres tobacco and makes alot of maoney on it and it becomes a cas crop.
  • The Great Massacre

    Openchanough teh indian leads a Massacre and kills 347 colonists. That starts a war that lasts for almost a decade.
  • The Abigal

    The Abigal arrives with no food and a load of infected passengers. Later plague and starvation kills about 500 people.