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Offers a chronological timeline of important dates and events in Virginia History. Access Virginia early history and history firsts.
Virginia has a long history of agricultural reformers, and the Progressive Era stimulated their efforts. Rural areas suffered persistent problems, such as declining populations, widespread illiteracy, poor farming techniques, and debilitating diseases among both farm animals and farm families.
Kids learn about the history and timeline of the state of Virginia including early explorers, Native Americans, Jamestown, an English Colony, American Revolution, and Civil War.
Virginia Records Timeline: 1553 to 1743. The Library of Congress owns twenty-one manuscript volumes of seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Virginia colonial records that were originally part of Jefferson’s personal library.
The timeline brings together digitized primary sources from our collection and the Library of Congress, including text, audio, and video that places Virginia's story within the greater framework of the history of the United States.
Sir William Berkeley becomes governor of the colony of Virginia. He serves until 1652, and then again from 1660 to 1677. Berkeley is a strong Anglican and attempts to establish the Anglican Church more firmly in Virginia.
The first Africans had been taken to Virginia in 1619, but race-based slavery began to grow rapidly only after the 1660s. Soon the institution was protected by Virginia law, and the number of enslaved people in the colony rose steadily until the American Revolution (1775–83).
Following a yearlong investigation into mismanagement headed by Sir Richard Jones, justice of the Court of Common Pleas, the Crown revokes the Virginia Company of London's charter and assumes direct control of the Virginia colony.
Timeline of important dates and major events in the history of Virginia. Illustrated list of events and people from our today in history archives.
Of 1,261 people who have gone to Virginia, 650 settled on some form of Company lands. Of these, eighty became tenants of the governor, one hundred tenants on the new college's land at Middle Plantation, and 150 became apprentices or servants. Ninety women settled in Virginia.