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This is a timeline of events related to the settlement of Jamestown, in what today is the U.S. state of Virginia. Dates use the Old Style calendar (e.g., the settlement naming occurred 4 May 1607 [ O.S. 14 May 1607]).
1770 establishments in the Colony of Virginia (14 P) 1771 establishments in the Colony of Virginia (3 P) 1772 establishments in the Colony of Virginia (1 C, 12 P)
1614 – Peace between the Virginia colony and the Powhatan Confederacy. 1619 – First meeting of the Virginia House of Burgesses. First Africans in Virginia. 1620 – The Pilgrims found the Plymouth Colony. [1] 1622 – Indian massacre of 1622 in Virginia. 1624 – Virginia Company collapses and Virginia becomes a crown colony.
The Colony of Virginia was a British colonial settlement in North America from 1606 to 1776.. The first effort to create an English settlement in the area was chartered in 1584 and established in 1585; the resulting Roanoke Colony lasted for three attempts totaling six years.
There never was a bishop in colonial Virginia, and in practice the local vestry, consisting of gentry laymen controlled the parish. [94] By the 1740s, the Anglicans had about 70 parish priests around the colony. Missionaries were sent to the Indians but they had little success apart from the Nansemond tribe, which had converted in 1638. The ...
At a higher level, large areas of Virginia were split off to form new states, transferred as state boundaries were clarified, or came under the administration of the federal government. Virginia has 95 counties, 38 independent cities, and 190 incorporated towns. There are also hundreds of unincorporated places in Virginia with their own identities.
The James Fort c. 1608 as depicted on the map by Pedro de Zúñiga. Jamestown, also Jamestowne, was the first settlement of the Virginia Colony, founded in 1607, and served as the capital of Virginia until 1699, when the seat of government was moved to Williamsburg.
1982 – Virginia Port Authority's affiliate Virginia International Terminals begins operating the Newport News Marine Terminal. 1984 – U.S. Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (later Jefferson Lab) established. [12] 1987 – Patrick Henry Mall in business. 1992 Monitor–Merrimac Memorial Bridge–Tunnel opens. [12]