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The first permanent English settlement in North America, it gave England its first foothold in the European competition for the New World.
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Angolans were kidnapped by the Portuguese, and were then bought by English colonists. The arrival of the enslaved Africans in the New World marks a beginning of two and a half centuries of slavery in North America.
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To bring order to the province, Governor George Yeardley created the first representative assembly in America. It was composed of an appointed Governor and six Councilors, as well as 22 men called burgesses.
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It was a document signed on the English ship before landing at Plymouth, Massachusetts. It was the first framework of government written and enacted in the United States.
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It's when the Plymouth colonists from England and the Native American Wampanoag people shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the New World.
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The English went and took over New Amsterdam from the Dutch, renaming it New York after the Duke of York.
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Invented by Isaac Newton, instead of a lens, it used a single curved main mirror, together with a smaller flat mirror.
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A war that put Native Americans against English settlers and their Indian allies, it was one of the bloodiest conflicts in U.S history.
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A rebellion held by Virginia settlers, led by Nathaniel Bacon against Colonial Governor William Berkeley, after Berkeley refused Bacon's request to drive Native American Indians out of Virginia.
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A series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in Massachusetts. More than 200 people were accused, 30 were found guilty