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Jamestown timeline

  • chespeake bay
    Mar 11, 1570

    chespeake bay

    The Jesuit Mission on Chesapeake Bay
  • Period: Mar 11, 1570 to

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  • drake
    Mar 11, 1573

    drake

    Francis Drake sees Pacific Ocean for the first time
  • roanoke island

    roanoke island

    Two attempts to establish a colony on Roanoke Island are organized by Sir Walter Raleigh. The second disappears without a trace.
  • sir walter

    sir walter

    Sir Walter Raleigh explores 300 miles up the Orinoco River in South America
  • discovery

    discovery

    December 20: Admiral Christopher Newport leaves London with the Godspeed, Discovery, and Susan Constant bound for Virginia.
  • indians attack

    indians attack

    May 26: Paspahegh Indians attack the colonists, killing two and wounding ten.
  • smith is accused

    smith is accused

    January 2: Smith is accused of causing the deaths of his men on the expedition, tried, and condemned to be hung.
  • a hurrican

    a hurrican

    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
  • lord de la warr

    lord de la warr

    June 8: Lord De La Warr arrives and prevents Gates and 250 (?) settlers from returning to England.
  • virginia

    virginia

    1611 Earliest colonization of Bermudas from Virginia May: Sir Thomas Dale arrives with 300 new settlers
  • captain argall

    captain argall

    June 4: Captain Argall captures Pocahontas and brings her to Jamestown as a hostage
  • john rolfe

    john rolfe

    May 24: Colonist John Rolfe marries Pocahontas.
  • pocahontas

    pocahontas

    Raleigh leads expedition to Guiana, South America First cargo of Virginia-grown tobacco reached England.
    March 17: Pocahontas dies in Gravesend, England.
  • great migration

    The "Great Migration" increases Jamestown's population from 400 to 4,500 but most die from disease, starvation, and Indian attack.
  • powhatan

    powhatan

    May: Powhatan dies.
  • general assembly

    general assembly

    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.