The Jamestown Colony in Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in North America founded in 1607. It was the third attempt of the Virginia Company of London to establish a permanent trade center in the Americas following the failures of the Roanoke Colony (1587-1590) and the Popham Colony of 1607-1608.
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1607 - 1699Jamestown Colony of Virginia becomes the first permanent English colony in North America.
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1607 - 1609Jamestown Colony of Virginia struggles to survive.
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1607Jamestown Colony of Virginia founded.
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1609 - 1610The Starving Time of the Jamestown Colony; colonists are forced to resort to cannibalism.
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1610 - 1611Jamestown Colony begins to thrive after the introduction of tobacco crop and reorganization of the settlement.
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1611 - 1619John Rolfe's tobacco blend becomes lucrative cash crop; Jamestown investors become rich.
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1611 - 1619Systematic removal of native Powhatan tribes from their lands as more colonists arrive in Jamestown from England.
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1619House of Burgesses is convened; first English representational government in the Americas.
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1619First African slaves arrive in Jamestown; possibly treated as indentured servants.
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22 Mar 1622The "Indian Massacre" of the Jamestown colony when the Powhatan Confederacy fights for their land; over 300 colonists killed.
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1676Bacon's Rebellion; Jamestown is burned in revolt over governor's pro-Native American and early settler's rights.
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1699Jamestown is abandoned in favor of Williamsburg as colonial capital of Virginia.
