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Roanoke Island was the site of the 16th-century Roanoke Colony, the first English colony in the New World
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The English Navy defeated the Spanish Armada on the sea.
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In 1607, 104 English men and boys arrived in North America to start a settlement. On May 13 they picked Jamestown, Virginia for their settlement.
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The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
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Their initial arrival in 1608 and throughout the next few years contributed greatly to Jamestown's ultimate success.
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English settler John Role begins experimenting with cultivation of tobacco. The tobacco grown by the Indians is much too harsh to sell in the European market. He learns there is a more mild strain of tobacco that can be grown inthe Chesapeake. Jamestown growers sent their first shipment to England in 1617.
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Pocahontas was captured by English settlers and held hostage in an attempt to recover settlers taken prisoner by Pocahontas's father, Powhatan.
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Colonists could start owning land at this time in 1618.
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House of Burgesses was the first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies.
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On this day on August 20, 1916 the Dutch first brought 20 odd some number of Africans to America as slaves.
