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History of Virginia - Wikipedia In 1776, Virginia and the rest of the American Colonies, would declare independence from Great Britain, helping form the United States Virginia planters had a major role in gaining independence and in the development of Democratic-Republican ideals of the United States
History and Facts on Virginia Virginia became a colony in 1624 and entered the union on June 25, 1788, the tenth state to do so Virginia was named for Queen Elizabeth I of England, the “Virgin Queen” and is also known as the “Old Dominion ”
Virginia - Colonial, Civil War, Jamestown | Britannica Virginia - Colonial, Civil War, Jamestown: The original inhabitants of Virginia arrived some 10,000 to 12,000 years ago These were people of Paleo-Indian culture, who, like their successors, the Archaic-culture people, lived mainly by hunting and fishing
Virginia - Capital, Facts Statehood - HISTORY The colony’s charter was revoked by King James I in 1624, with governors thereafter chosen by the crown Virginia remained a royal colony until the American Revolution
Virginia Museum of History Culture The museum’s signature exhibition, The Story of Virginia, covers Native American tribes prior to European colonization, colonization and the Revolutionary War, slavery and the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Civil Rights movement and more up to the present day
Home - Encyclopedia Virginia Gabriel Archer chronicled an expedition to New England in 1602 and was among the first settlers of the Virginia colony at Jamestown in 1607
History in Virginia - Virginia Is For Lovers Virginia is an American history icon Our country began here in 1607, and it's no surprise that the Old Dominion has more than its share of historic and historical sites, exhibits, monuments and legendary personas
VIRGINIA CHRONOLOGY Virginia's first General Assembly meets Indians raid Virginia settlements, killing more than 300 colonists James I revokes the charter of the Virginia Company of London Bacon's Rebellion erupts The General Assembly produces a slave code
Timeline of Virginia history - Wikipedia This article is a timeline of the history of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the Great Indian Warpath had a branch that led from present-day Lynchburg to present-day Richmond