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VIrgina is founded by John Smith and others, at Jamestown. The colony was then named after the Queen of England at the time that was known as the " virgin queen."
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Within one year of the first settlement 120 additional colonists had arrived, but sixty-seven of the original number had died.
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As the population continues to decrease in the newly found colony only 490 that were left by John Smith, there were only sixty alive when he returned.
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John Rolfe introduces his tobacco seeds in Jamestown
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First crop of tobacco exported
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The first meeting was held of Virginia General Assembly
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When the Pilgrims, landed at Plymouth there were 2,200 colonists living at or near Jamestown.
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King James I, granted the fourth charter to the London Company. This is what authorized "two supreme councils, in Virginia, for better government of the said colony."
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King James made Virginia a Royal Colony
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The town of Williamsburg established and is then designated as the capital of the colony.
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The capital, Williamsburg, is then destroyed by a fire.
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French and Indian War begins. General Georgre Washington leads the military into battle.
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French and Indian War ends
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Committees of Correspondence is established
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First Continental Congress meeting is held. To this meeting Virginians George Washington and Patrick Henry attend.
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Virginian Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, around the same time Virginia adopted it's first constitution, and declared its independence.
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Capital moved from Williamsburg to Richmond
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Statute of Statute of Religious Freedom passed giving Virginians the right to chooseto practice any religion of there choice
