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Three ships carrying 105 settlers select a site on Chesapeake Bay for a new settlement named Jamestown.
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Sir Thomas Gates is named governor of Jamestown. He arrives to that only 60 of 500 of the colony settlers have survived on May 23, 1610.
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John Rolfe and Pocahontas gets married after hearing about the scandal of John Smith death.
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The indians attacked, and killed 347 people.
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Virginia became Britain's first royal colony in America.
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Charles II from england first delcare war against the Netherlands, starting the second Anglo-Dutch War
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Dutch ships had entered the James River and burned six ships.
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Some English ships attacked a dutch convey beginning the Third Anglo-Dutch War
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"Nathaniel Bacon marches on Jamestown, defeats forces loyal to Governor Berkeley, and burns the settlement." from http://www.shmoop.com/jamestown/timeline.html
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He dies of inflammtion causing severe diahrrea with the blood