Timeline
By:Kristin, Jeffrey, Corey, Manny, Lathan
- 1610
Thomas West, Lord Delaware, was made Governor of Virginia.
Henry Hudson discovers Hudson Bay.
- 1611
Henry Hudson dies.
- 1612
Captain John Smith writes A Map of Virginia.
The Dutch use Manhattan as a fur trading center.
Tobacco planted for the first time by English colonists in Virginia.
- 1613
English Colonists in Virginia destroy the French settlements at Port Royal, Nova Scotia.
- 1614
Sir Walter Raleigh writes The History of the World.
Pocahontas marries John Rolfe.
- 1616
Sir Walter Raleigh released from the Tower of London.
John Rolfe and Pocahontas travel to England.
William Baffin discovers Baffin Bay while searching for a Northwest passage.
Captain John Smith writes A Description of New England.
A smallpox epidemic decimates the New England Native American population.
- 1617
Sir Walter Raleigh sets sail for Guiana.
Pocahontas dies.
- 1618
Sir Walter Raleigh returns to England and is executed.
- 1619
The first representative colonial assembly, the House of Burgesses, was formed in Virginia.
First slaves in North America.