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Wahunsunacock unites 32 Powhatan groups.
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The first permanent English colony in North America is founded in Jamestown.
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The first African Americans are brought to Virginia.
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Virginian Thomas Jefferson serves as the lead writer of the Declaration of Independence.
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The American Revolution Ends at the Battle of Yorktown.
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Virginia becomes the 10th state in the United States.
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Nat Turner leads a slave uprising.
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The US Surpreme Court rules that segregation on interstate buses is illegal, based on the case of Virginian Irene Morgan.
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Terrorists crash a plane into the Pentagon, killing 125 people.
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Virginia celebrates the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown.