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Queen Elizabeth issues a charter to Sir Walter Raleigh, allowing him to build a permanent settlement in North America for the English.
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Captains Phillip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe leave Plymouth on two boats well provided in men and supllies with mission to explore the North American coast in search of a suitable location for the foundation of a sustainable settlement. They eventually reach the island of Roanoke.
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Expedition commanded by Sir Walter Raleigh’s cousin, Sir Richard Grenville, leaves Plymouth with a group of 600 settlers and sets sail to Roanoke, North Carolina.
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Sir Richard Grenville anchors at Roanoke and the colonists attempt to establish a permanent settlement there.
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Sir Richard Grenville leaves to England for more supplies. He leaves Ralph Lane as the governor of 107 men.
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The colonists had a hard time surviving due to the conflict with Native Americans and illnesses. Sir Francis Drake takes the remaining surviving colonists back to England.
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John White and his men are granted privileges to plant a new colony in Virginia. He sets off from Plymouth to Virginia.
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John White and the colonists arrive in Roanoke.
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George Howe, one of the governor's assistants was killed by Indians while fishing crabs alone next to the village. He was pierced with 16 arrows.
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Gov. White's daughter Eleonor, married to the tiler Ananias Dare, gives birth to a girl, named Virginia. She is the first English child to be born in the New World.
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Governor John White leaves for England to get more supplies.
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John White leaves Plymouth for Virginia without more colonists and without supplies.
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John White arrives in Roanoke, and there are no colonists at the colony.The only trace left from the colonists was the word "CROATOAN" etched on a tree.
