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VIRGINIA CHRONOLOGY
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- Human beings inhabit the land later called Virginia.
- Spanish Jesuits establish a mission.
- Powhatan began consolidating tribes.
- The English settle Jamestown.
- 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.
- The Knights of the Golden Horseshoe explore the Blue Ridge Mountains.
- Patrick Henry argues the Parson's Cause.
- The royal governor dissolves the General Assembly.
- Patrick Henry delivers his "Liberty or Death" speech.
- Lord Cornwallis surrenders to George Washington.
- The General Assembly passes the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.
- Gabriel's Conspiracy, a slave rebellion, is thwarted.
- Virginia adopts a new constitution.
- Nat Turner leads a slave rebellion in Southampton County.
- The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union is founded.
- John Brown and others attack the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry.
- The Ordinance of Secession is approved.
- West Virginia is admitted to the Union.
- R. E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia.
- African American men vote for the first time in Virginia.
- Virginia's Reconstruction constitution became effective.
- The Readjuster Party is founded.
- The Seaboard Air Line Railway is chartered.
- Virginia's new constitution limits voter participation.
- The Virginia Prohibition Act, also known as the Mapp Act, takes effect.
- The Spanish Influenza pandemic reaches Virginia.
- Roanoke radio station WDBJ broadcasts for the first time.
- The CCC opens Camp Roosevelt in the George Washington National Forest.
- Work began on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
- On D-Day the 116th Infantry participates in the invasion of France.
- WTVR transmits the first television broadcast in Virginia.
- In Farmville a student walkout protests unequal school conditions.
- Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C., is dedicated.
- Virginia grants official recognition to six Virginia Indian tribes.
- Lawrence Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American state governor.
- Terrorists hijack four airliners, flying one into the Pentagon.
- The last auction of leaf tobacco in Virginia takes place in Farmville.
