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king james 1st died and was succeded by his son, chales 1
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three ships sighted the land of virginia, landed at Cape Henry (present day Virginia Beach) and were attacked by Indians. the three ships that sailed were Susan Constant, Godspeed, Discovery
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On May 13 the colonists chose Jamestown Island as the site for settlement, because it met the London Company’s instructions and it had a deep river channel nearby. On May 14 they stepped ashore and began fortifying the area against Spaniards and Indians.
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John was released by powhatan. This was the day that when John came back and found out that half of the people were died because of deiseses or of starvation.
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pocanhontas died at gravessend,England.Rolfe left his son with an uncle in England and returend to Virginia
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Sir Francis Wyatt was knighted July 7, 1618 at Windsor.
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Lord de la Warr died. Most of the jamestown colony were not happy when he died but very few were.
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The General Assembly of the colony of Virginia, the first representative assembly in English America, met in the church at Jamestown until August 4, 1619. The assembly adopted the Virginia Company’s and passed some new laws
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The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth to establish a colony in “Northern Virginia.”
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The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth to establish a colony in “Northern Virginia.”
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opechancanough led the Powhatan Indians in an uprising killing about a third of the 1200 colonists in virginia
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Opechancanough led the Powhatan Indians in an uprising, killing about one-third of the 1200 colonists in Virginia. Jamestown was warned and was not attacked. Many outlying settlements were abandoned, and much sickness followed the uprising.
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A treaty was made at middle plantation with the Indians who had been under attack. The Indians ceded their lands and were confined to small reservations for which an annual tribute was paid to the colony.