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The exact date of Pocahontas' birth is unknown, but most historians agree that she was born either in 1595 or 1596
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Englishmen arrived at Jamestown.
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Pocahontas visits Jamestown several times; meets Captain John Smith, whom she tutors in the Powhatan's language. Pocahontas and John Smith become friends.
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Smith is captured by Powhatan warriors and taken to the village of Werowocomoco to meet Powhatan; Pocahontas "saves" Smith during what was probably a mock execution, staged as part of a ceremony intended to adopt the Englishman into the Powhatan tribes.
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Pocahontas sends Indian messengers to Jamestown with food for the struggling colonists.
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Powhatan orders Smith's death; Pocahontas warns Smith of her father's decree, allowing him to escape from the assassins.
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Injured in a gunpowder accident, Smith leaves Virginia and returns to England for good.
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Powhatan orders the massacre of 60 settlers visiting Werowocomoco; Pocahontas goes to live with the Patawomeke tribe.
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Pocahontas is kidnapped by Captain Samuel Argall, who takes her to Jamestown as an English prisoner and holds her for ransom.
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Pocahontas is baptized by Protestant minister Alexander Whitaker sometime this year or early 1614, taking the Christian name Rebecca
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Pocahontas marries colonist John Rolfe
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Pocahontas visits England, arriving in June, is royally received, and has a reunion with Smith
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On the return trip, Pocahontas dies (possibly from a respiratory ailmentat) in Gravesend, England, and is buried March 21 – son Thomas stays in England until early adulthood
