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Pocahontas is Born
Pocahontas is believed to be born around the year 1595. Historians can not be certain of her birthday though because there is no real record of her birth. -
Rescuing European Explorers
Many explorers from Europe were coming to America in the 1600's. Pocahontas's tribe captured an explorer, John Smith, but Pocahontas heroically saved Smith from death. She placed her head upon Smith's at his execution. -
Pocahontas Lives Among the English Settlers
Pocahontas's father, chief Powhatan, refused to meet the needs of the settlers, leaving Pocahontas held in English captivity. Not much information was recorded in the time Pocahontas was with the settlers. Something we do know about Pocahontas was that she was baptized and converted to Christianity. -
Pocahontas Captured
After the Anglo-Powhatan Wars, there were still many disagreements among the English settlers and the Powhatan tribe. An English settler, Captain Samuel Argall, tricked Pocahontas by luring her onto an English ship. On the ship they held her ransom and refused to return her until the Powhatan's returned the English prisoners and supplies. -
Pocahontas Decides to Stay
The English decide to let Pocahontas talk to her father. She was very mad about how her father had not done everything in his power to get her back home. She decided that she would continue to live with the English settlers instead of the Powhatan. -
Pocahontas Becoming Married
During her time in captivity, Pocahontas met John Rolfe. After Pocahontas decided that she would continue to live with the English settlers, Pocahontas and John Rolfe decided to get married. Rolfe's occupation was a tobacco planter, which he was very successful in. -
Pocahontas the Mother
A little less that a year after they got married, Pocahontas and John Rolfe had a baby together. The baby was boy, which they had named Thomas Rolfe. Thomas Rolfe grey up to become a deputy governor. -
Pocahontas Travels to England
Pocahontas is married to English settler, John Rolf, so she traveled with Rolfe back to England. In England, she was treated very well. She was presented to the king in Whitehall Palace during a performance of Ben Jonson's The Vision of Delight. In England some saw and treated her a princess, but some only saw her as a curiosity. -
Pocahontas Dies
Pocahontas and John Rolfe needed to make heir way back from England to Virginia. On the was home, Pocahontas became very ill. They took the ship to shore, where they buried Pocahontas near a church in Gravesend. -
Pocahontas's Grave Lost
Pocahontas was buried near a church in Gravesend. Later, a fire destroyed the church. This resulted in loss of the exact site where she was buried.
