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The Jesuit Mission on Chesapeake Bay
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Francis Drake sees Pacific Ocean for the first time
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Two attempts to establish a colony on Roanoke Island are organized by Sir Walter Raleigh. The second disappears without a trace.
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Sir Walter Raleigh explores 300 miles up the Orinoco River in South America
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December 20: Admiral Christopher Newport leaves London with the Godspeed, Discovery, and Susan Constant bound for Virginia.
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May 26: Paspahegh Indians attack the colonists, killing two and wounding ten.
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January 2: Smith is accused of causing the deaths of his men on the expedition, tried, and condemned to be hung.
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July 24: A hurrican sinks one ship; the flag ship Sea Venture (with Thomas Gates, George Somers, John Rolfe) is tossed about for four days before lodging on a reef in Bermuda; all 150 on board and the supplies are saved; the colonists begin rebuilding two boats from the wreckage
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June 8: Lord De La Warr arrives and prevents Gates and 250 (?) settlers from returning to England.
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1611 Earliest colonization of Bermudas from Virginia May: Sir Thomas Dale arrives with 300 new settlers
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June 4: Captain Argall captures Pocahontas and brings her to Jamestown as a hostage
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May 24: Colonist John Rolfe marries Pocahontas.
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Raleigh leads expedition to Guiana, South America First cargo of Virginia-grown tobacco reached England.
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The "Great Migration" increases Jamestown's population from 400 to 4,500 but most die from disease, starvation, and Indian attack.
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May: Powhatan dies.
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July 30-August 4: The General Assembly meets in the choir of the Jamestown church; its first law requires tobacco to be sold for at least three shillings per pound.
