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Was the first enduring English colony in North America. It was one of the five Southern colonies and one of the thirteen American colonies that later merged to became the United States of America.
Establishment
May 1607: In 1607, the English established the Jamestown settlement in Virginia Colony. Led by Captain John Smith and funded by the Virginia Company, Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
Chronology
Interactive Chronologies with maps are available in the section Changes Navigation
Were a series of wars fought between settlers of the Virginia Colony and Algonquin Indians of the Powhatan Confederacy in the early 17th century.
1.1.First Anglo-Powhatan War
Was a war between the Virginia Colony and Algonquin Indians of the Powhatan Confederacy.
January 1615: The English colonists concluded a peace with the Powhatan that was sealed by the marriage of Pocahontas to colonist John Rolfe.
1.2.Second Anglo-Powhatan War
Was a war between the Virginia Colony and Algonquin Indians of the Powhatan Confederacy.
September 1632: A final peace was made between the English settlers and the Powhatan Confederacy in the Virginia Colony. This agreement gave Virginia the Eastern Shore and both sides of the James, as well as the southern shore of the York.
1.3.Third Anglo-Powhatan War
Was a war between the Virginia Colony and Algonquin Indians of the Powhatan Confederacy.
November 1646: The extent of the Virginia Colony open to patent was defined as the land between the Blackwater and York rivers.
Was a revolution in England and Scotland that led to the deposition of Catholic King James II.
November 1688: By November 1688 William of Orange, who was Stadtholder of the Netherlands, and his wife Mary, were in control of England and Wales. They would later become King and Queen of Great Britain.
Were a series of conflicts fought intermittently during the 17th century in North America throughout the Saint Lawrence River valley in Canada and the lower Great Lakes region which pitted the Iroquois League against the Hurons, northern Algonquians and their French allies.
January 1701: Iroquois expansion until 1700.
Were fought by European governments and colonists in North America, and later by the United States and Canadian governments and American and Canadian settlers, against various American Indian and First Nation tribes.
4.1.Cherokee-American wars
Were a series of skirmishes between the Cherokee and the American settlers on the frontier.
October 1768: To address the issue of settlers living beyond the boundaries established by earlier treaties, John Stuart, the Superintendent for Southern Indian Affairs, negotiated a treaty on October 17, 1768. This agreement resulted in the Cherokee surrendering their claims to lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the Colony of Virginia. This territory now encompasses most of West Virginia and eastern Kentucky, as well as a portion of southwestern Pennsylvania.
November 1768: After Pontiac's War, the Iroquois Confederacy ceded to the British government its claims to the hunting grounds between the Ohio and Cumberland rivers, known to them and other Indians as Kain-tuck-ee, in the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix.
March 1775: Richard Henderson and his investors reached an agreement with the Cherokees to purchase a vast tract of lands west of the southern and central Appalachian Mountains. In the purchased region, they founded the extra-legal Transylvania Colony.
Was a 1774 conflict between the British colony of Virginia and the Shawnee and Mingo.
October 1774: In 1774, Colonel Andrew Lewis led a force of Virginia militia to confront Shawnee Chief Cornstalk at Camp Pleasant (Point Pleasant). The ensuing Battle of Point Pleasant was a key conflict in Lord Dunmore's War.
Was the war of independence of the United States of America (at the time the Thirteen Colonies) against Great Britain.
July 1776: United States Declaration of Independence: the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule.
6.1.Southern theatre of the American Revolutionary War
Was the southern theater of war of the American Revolutionary War. It encompassed engagements primarily in Virginia, Georgia and South Carolina.
January 1776: Battle of Great Bridge.
6.1.1.Snow Campaign
Was a U.S. military campaign in Carolina during the American Revolutionary War.
November 1776: By November 27 a Colonial army led by Colonel Richardson reached the Congaree River.
December 1776: The Patriot force occupied the North Carolina interior by December 23. The Patriot forces then made their way back toward the coast.
January 1647: After the Third Anglo-Powhatan war, the Colony is composed by: the land between the Blackwater and York rivers, and up to the navigable point of each of the major rivers - which were connected by a straight line running directly from modern Franklin on the Blackwater, northwesterly to the Appomattoc village beside Fort Henry, and continuing in the same direction to the Monocan village above the falls of the James, where Fort Charles was built, then turning sharp right, to Fort Royal on the York (Pamunkey) river. Necotowance thus ceded the English vast tracts of still-uncolonized land, much of it between the James and Blackwater. English settlements on the peninsula north of the York and below the Poropotank were also allowed, as they had already been there since 1640.
March 1663: Borders established by the Charter of Carolina (1663).
May 1677: The Treaty of 1677 was signed in Virginia on May 28, 1677, between the English Crown and representatives from various Virginia Native American tribes, including the Powhatan Confederacy. This treaty marked a significant agreement between the colonists and the indigenous peoples of the region.
January 1685: Treaty of Albany (1684).
March 1702: As William III of England was also the de facto ruler of the Dutch Republic (as Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic), the Personal Union between Netherlands and Great Britain ended at his death.
January 1723: The Virginia Colony expanded its territories with the Treaty of Albany (1722).
January 1764: Proclamation of 1763.
January 1769: 1768 Boundary Line Treaty of Fort Stanwix with Indigenous Americans.
January 1775: The Virginia Colony expanded its territories with the Treaty of Camp Charlotte (1774).
Disestablishment
January 1776: Battle of Great Bridge.
July 1776: United States Declaration of Independence: the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule.
November 1776: By November 27 a Colonial army led by Colonel Richardson reached the Congaree River.
December 1776: The Patriot force occupied the North Carolina interior by December 23. The Patriot forces then made their way back toward the coast.
Selected Sources
1768 Boundary Line Treaty of Fort Stanwix. National Park Service. Retrieved on 7 April 2024 on https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/1768-boundary-line-treaty-of-fort-stanwix.htm
5 Nations Expansion. Wikipedia. Retrieved on 30 March 2024 on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:5NationsExpansion.jpg
Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
Israel, J. I. (1995): The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, Clarendon Press, pp. 959-960
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