{"slug": "colony-of-virginia", "label": "Colony of Virginia", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_of_Virginia", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1070529", "qid": "Q1070529", "description": "former British colony in North America", "entries": 17, "years": 15, "span": [1607, 1775], "span_label": ["1607 CE", "1775 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 9}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 4}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}], "also_known_as": ["Virginia Colony"], "related": [{"slug": "williamsburg-virginia", "label": "Williamsburg, Virginia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "george-washington", "label": "George Washington", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "french-and-indian-war", "label": "French and Indian War", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "june", "label": "June", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "november", "label": "November", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "old-style-and-new-style-dates", "label": "Old Style and New Style dates", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jamestown", "label": "Jamestown", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mughal-empire", "label": "Mughal Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "presidencies-and-provinces-of-british-india", "label": "Presidencies and provinces of British India", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jahangir", "label": "Jahangir", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thomas-roe", "label": "Thomas Roe", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "province-of-north-carolina", "label": "Province of North Carolina", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1607, "year_label": "1607 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "April 26", "text": "April 26 – English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia, later moving up the James River.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358831090#April–June", "title": "1607", "revid": 1358831090, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1616, "year_label": "1616 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "January 10", "text": "January 10 – English diplomat Sir Thomas Roe presents his credentials to the Mughal Emperor Jahangir, in Ajmer Fort, opening the door to the British presence in India. Roe sailed in the Lyon under the command of captain Christopher Newport, best known for his role in the Virginia colonies.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366307823#January–February", "title": "1616", "revid": 1366307823, "section": "Events › January–February"}}, {"year": 1619, "year_label": "1619 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 20", "text": "August 20 – A group of \"twenty and odd\" enslaved Africans, onboard the privateer ship White Lion (the first in the state of Virginia), are landed at Point Comfort in colonial Virginia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369562130#July–September", "title": "1619", "revid": 1369562130, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1624, "year_label": "1624 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 24", "text": "May 24 – After years of unprofitable operation, Virginia's charter is revoked, and it becomes a royal colony.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1331350573#April–June", "title": "1624", "revid": 1331350573, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1625, "year_label": "1625 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "January 25", "text": "25 January – The Danish West India Company is granted an eight-year monopoly on trade with the West Indies, Virginia, Brazil and Guinea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340248385#Events", "title": "1625 in Denmark", "revid": 1340248385, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1650, "year_label": "1650 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 30", "text": "October 30 – The Commonwealth of England government passes a law prohibiting trade between English merchants and English colonies that had sided with Charles II over Oliver Cromwell. Specifically labeled as rebel colonies for purposes of the ban are the North American colonies of Virginia and the Somers Isles (alias Bermuda), as well as the Caribbean islands of Barbados and Antigua.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373388330#October–December", "title": "1650", "revid": 1373388330, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1655, "year_label": "1655 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 8", "text": "March 8 – John Casor becomes the first legally recognized slave in what will become the United States, as a court in Northampton County in the Colony of Virginia issues its decision in the Casor lawsuit, the first instance of a judicial determination in the Thirteen Colonies holding that a person who has committed no crime could be held in servitude for life.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365983750#January–March", "title": "1655", "revid": 1365983750, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1676, "year_label": "1676 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June", "text": "June – Bacon's Rebellion begins in the Virginia Colony. On July 30, Nathaniel Bacon and his followers issue the Declaration of the People of Virginia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365992596#April–June", "title": "1676", "revid": 1365992596, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1676, "year_label": "1676 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 30", "text": "July 30 – Virginia colonist Nathaniel Bacon and his makeshift army issue a Declaration of the People of Virginia, instigating Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365992596#July–September", "title": "1676", "revid": 1365992596, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1699, "year_label": "1699 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 1", "text": "May 1 (O.S.) – A series of five student orations at the College of William & Mary precipitate the Colony of Virginia's capital moving from Jamestown to Middle Plantation, resulting in the establishment of Williamsburg.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369560904#April–June", "title": "1699", "revid": 1369560904, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1705, "year_label": "1705 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November", "text": "November – In Williamsburg, capital of the Colony of Virginia in America, construction of the Capitol Building is completed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355353320#October–December", "title": "1705", "revid": 1355353320, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1754, "year_label": "1754 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 28", "text": "May 28 – French and Indian War: Battle of Jumonville Glen – The war begins when George Washington, 22, leads a company of militia from the Colony of Virginia, in an ambush on a force of 35 French Canadians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360193273#April–June", "title": "1754", "revid": 1360193273, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1754, "year_label": "1754 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 28", "text": "28 May – The Battle of Jumonville Glen begins the French and Indian War in North America: 22-year-old George Washington leads a company of militia from the Colony of Virginia in an ambush on a force of 35 French Canadians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353738506#Events", "title": "1754 in France", "revid": 1353738506, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1755, "year_label": "1755 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 25", "text": "July 25 – The decision to deport the Acadians is made, during meetings of the Nova Scotia Council meeting in Halifax. From September 1755-June 1763, the vast majority of Acadians are deported to one of the following British Colonies in America: Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Contrary to popular belief, no Acadians are sent to Louisiana. Those sent to Virginia are refused and then sent on to Liverpool, Bristol, Southampton and Penryn in England. In 1758 the Fortress of Louisbourg falls and all of the civilian population of Isle Royal (Cape Breton Island) and Isle St. Jean (Prince Edward Island) are repatriated to France. Among them were several thousand Acadians, who had escaped the deportation by fleeing into those areas. Very few Acadians successfully escape the deportation and do so only by fleeing into some of the northern sections of present day New Brunswick. The event inspires Longfellow to write the epic poem Evangeline.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360194188#July–September", "title": "1755", "revid": 1360194188, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1761, "year_label": "1761 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 19", "text": "November 19 – A separate peace treaty is signed between the Cherokee Indians and the Colony of Virginia, bringing the Anglo-Cherokee War to a close.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369831762#October–December", "title": "1761", "revid": 1369831762, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1767, "year_label": "1767 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "November 1", "text": "November 1 – Scottish-born American merchant and shipowner Andrew Sprowle of Portsmouth, Virginia, establishes the Gosport Shipyard on the western shore of the Elizabeth River in the Virginia Colony, on the site of what will eventually become the Norfolk Naval Shipyard.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365587024#October_–December", "title": "1767", "revid": 1365587024, "section": "Events › October –December"}}, {"year": 1775, "year_label": "1775 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 7", "text": "November 7 – American Revolution: John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, British royal governor of the Colony of Virginia, signs Dunmore's Proclamation, declaring martial law and offering freedom to slaves of Patriots who run away from their owners and join the Loyalist forces (formal proclamation November 15) thus losing the support of planters who see slaves as their vital livelihood.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365589248#July–December", "title": "1775", "revid": 1365589248, "section": "Events › July–December"}}]}