Virginia Historical Society (exhibits vary) – visit included Toys of the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s
1600s
(1607) Jamestown, first permanent English settlement
established; Indians attacked, killed 1, wounded 11; John Smith captured by
Indians
(1608) More settlers arrived; John Smith released; fire destroyed
all the homes
(1611) John Rolfe introduces his tobacco seeds
(1612) First crop of tobacco exported
(1613) Pocahontas captured, brought to Jamestown
(1614) John Rolfe and Pocahontas married
(1619) 90 women arrived on "brides' ship"; black
indentured servants arrived on Dutch ship; first meeting held of Virginia
General Assembly
December 4, 1619: First Thanksgiving
at Berekley Plantation
(1622) Indian massacre caused the death of 347 colonists,
including women and children
(1624) King James made Virginia a royal colony
(1676) Colonists revolted (Bacon's Rebellion); capitol building
and Jamestown settlement burned; Bacon died, supporters hung
(1699) Capitol building burned again; town of Williamsburg established, designated as capital
1600s English Farm can be toured at the Frontier Culture Museum
1700s
(1732) February 22: George Washington was born in Westmoreland County
1740s American Farm can be toured at the Frontier Culture Museum
(1747) Williamsburg capital destroyed by fire
(1754) French and Indian
War began; General George Washington led militia into battle
(1763) French and Indian
War ended
(1763) Hanover County Courthouse: It was here that, in 1763, Patrick Henry argued and won The Parson's Cause, a case involving religious liberty in the Colony.
(1765) Stamp Act passed by King George III, required colonists to
buy stamps for newspapers, calendars, marriage licenses; Patrick Henry spoke
against Act (Scotchtown)
(1771) Richmond flooded
(1773) Committees of Correspondence established
(1773) William Henry Harrison was born at Berkley Plantation.
Harrison served as US President for 31 days before he died of pneumonia. He
died on April 4, 1841, the first President to die in office. He was also the
last president to be born as a British subject.
(1774) First Continental Congress meeting held in Philadelphia,
PA; Virginians George Washington and Patrick Henry attend
(1775) March 23 - Patrick Henry delivered his inspirational
speech, ending with "Give me liberty or give me death". (St. Johns
Church)
(1775) April 19 – Lexington and Concord
– start of the Revolutionary War (FYI - not Virginia history)
(1775) Settlers began using the Cumberland Gap
to move west (Cumberland Gap National Historical Park/Wilderness Road State
Park)
Cumberland
Gap National Historical Park Field Trip
(1776) Virginian Thomas Jefferson wrote Declaration of
Independence; Virginia adopted first constitution (June 29); Virginia declared
its independence (June 12); Declaration of Independence signed July 4.
(1779) Capital moved from Williamsburg to Richmond (Capitol
building)
(1781) At Yorktown, British forces under General Charles
Cornwallis surrendered to the combined French and American forces serving under
the command of General George Washington.
(1786) Statute of Religious Freedom passed; gave Virginians right
to choose religion, church
(1788) Virginia became 10th U. S. state
(1789 - 1797) George Washington served as first U. S. President
(1799) George Washington died at Mount Vernon
1700s Frontier Culture Museum German Farm, Irish
Forge, Irish Farm, West African Farm, Ganatastwi
1800s
(1801) Thomas Jefferson elected third U. S. President
(1804) Meriweather Lewis (born in Ivy, VA in Albemarle County)
and William Clark (born in Ladysmith, VA in Caroline County) began exploration
of western frontier; first Americans to cross continent all the way to Pacific
Ocean
(1809) James Madison elected fourth U. S. president; known as
"Father of the Constitution" (Montpelier)
Montpelier
Field Trip
(1809) James Monroe elected fifth U. S. president
Ash
Lawn Highland Field Trip
(1811 – 1826) Edgar Allan Poe lived in Richmond
Poe
Museum Field Trip
(1813) Executive Mansion built beside Capitol
Executive
Mansion Field Trip
1820s American Farm can be toured at the Frontier Culture Museum
(1831/1837) Cyrus McCormick invented the reaper
(Cyrus McCormick Farm in Raphine)
Cyrus
McCormick Farm Field Trip
(1831) Nat
Turner led slave rebellion against plantation owners; he was captured and hung
in Southhampton County (Courtland)
(1841 – 1865) Tredegar
Iron Works
(1841) John Tyler elected president (Sherwood
Forest Plantation)
Sherwood
Forest Plantation Field Trip
(1850s) American Farm and Early American
Schoolhouse – Frontier Culture Museum
(1856) Booker T. Washington born
Booker
T. Washington National Monument Field Trip
(1859) John Brown, abolitionist, led group in raid to steal
weapons to fight slavery (Harpers Ferry Historical Park)
Harpers
Ferry Field Trip
(1860) Meadow Farm Museum (1860s working farm)
Meadow
Farm Museum Field Trip
1861 -
Richmond National Battlefield Park
American Civil War Museum
Richmond National Battlefield Park
American Civil War Museum
- Virginia's state flag adopted in 1861 - The flag has a blue background with a white circle in the center. In the center are the words "VIRGINIA," and "SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS" (Latin for "thus always to tyrants").
- Virginia secedes and joins the Confederacy; the Civil War begins
- May 24-25 - Union troops occupy Arlington Heights and Alexandria. Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth is killed after removing a Confederate flag from the Marshall House in Alexandria.
- June 1 - Cavalry clash at Fairfax Court House. First Confederate officer killed.
- June 17 - Troops clash at Vienna
- July: the Confederate Congress met in the Confederate Capitol building (video: wttw).
- July 21 - First Battle of Manassas
- August: Jeff Davis moved into the White House of the Confederacy.
- Oct. 21 - Battle of Ball's Bluff
- Dec. 21-22 - Battle of Dranesville
1862 -
- Aug. 22 - Confederate raid at
Catlett's Station
- Aug. 29-30 - Battle of Second
Manassas
- Sept. 1 -Battle of Chantilly
- Sept. 4-6 - Confederate army
passes through Leesburg on the march to Maryland
1863 -
- West Virginia is formed from northwestern Virginia (50 counties)
- March 17 - Raid on Kelly's Ford
- March 30 - Mosby raids Catlett's Station
- June 19-21 - Stuart's cavalry fights screening action along modern Route 50
- Oct. 14 - Battle of Bristoe Station
1864 -
- July 13-16 - Early crosses back into Virginia after Maryland excursion
- Nov. 6 - Mosby attacks workers on Manassas Gap Railroad at Salem
1865 -
- April 9 - Robert E. Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox; Lee and troops forced to leave Richmond; setting fire to bridges along the way
- April 21 - Mosby disbands his Rangers, rather than surrender them
(1860s – 1880s) Valuable coal
deposits discovered, connected by rail – Pocahontas Exhibition Coal Mine
1870 -
- Virginia reenters the United
States
- Capitol Disaster. A hot debate
over a case involving a mayor attracted a
large crowd to the second floor room above the chamber of the House of Delegates. The floor collapsed because of the weight of all of the people- killing 62 and injuring 251. - Virginia's Constitution provides for public schools. The first public law on schooling separates the races.
- (1877) James River flooded, many lives lost, 20 homes swept away, damages estimated at $1 million
1900s
(1901) Jim Crow laws passed, segregation created
(1903) Maggie Lena Walker opened St. Luke Penny Savings Bank for
African-Americans (Maggie Walker House)
(1913) Woodrow Wilson elected U. S. president; proclaimed second
Sunday in May Mother's Day (Woodrow Wilson birthplace in Staunton)
(1914) Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Organized
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Field Trip
(1914) Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Organized
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Field Trip
(1920) 19th Amendment passed, women received right to vote
(1927) The Carter Family released their first
record, one of the earliest recordings of country music (Carter Family Fold)
(1932) Patsy Cline born in Winchester
(1936) Richmond Floods
1939-40 - Aline Black and
Melvin Austin go to court to secure equal pay for Black teachers in Norfolk,
Virginia.
(1941 - 1943) Pentagon built in Arlington
(1941 - 1948) African-American parents, students fought for
busing, equal facilities, equal curricula
(1943) July 10 - Arthur Ashe born in Richmond, VA. Arthur Ash was the first
and only African-American male tennis player to win the "Gentleman's
Singles" title at Wimbledon. In 1975 Ashe was ranked No. 1 in the world.
(1944) June 6 – D-Day – Invasion of Normandy. Thirty-four Virginia National Guard soldiers from the town of Bedford were part of D-Day. Nineteen of them were
killed during the first day of the invasion, and four more died during the rest
of the Normandy campaign. The town and the "Bedford Boys" had
proportionately suffered the greatest losses of the campaign, thus inspiring
the United States Congress to establish the D-Day memorial in Bedford.
(National D-Day Memorial in Bedford).
(1947) Marguerite Henry wrote Misty of
Chincoteague while staying at Miss Molly’s Inn on Chincoteague Island
(1950) Desegregation began, first African-American student
attended Law School at University of Virginia
(1954) Segregation declared unconstitutional
(1958) Virginia declares no
integrated schools would receive funding
(1959) In an effort to refuse integration, Prince Edward County
closed all schools
(1960s) Most Virginia schools integrated
(1964) Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel opened
(1964) Civil Rights Act passed
(1967) Loving v. Virginia invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage
(Caroline County)
(1973) Secretariat won the Triple Crown (Meadow
Farm Event Park Secretariat Tour)
(1975) May 3 – Kings Dominion opened
(1975) May 16 – Busch Gardens Williamsburg
opened.
(1981) First American test tube baby born in Norfolk (Elizabeth
Jordan Carr)
(1989) L. Douglas Wilder became first African-American governor
of state, Mary Sue Terry becomes first female Attorney General.
(1993) 18 tornadoes struck southeast Virginia in four hours, four
people killed, 259 injured, damages of $52.5 million occurred
(1995) Richmond’s Floodwall completed
(1999) September 6 -Ten year
Old Enters College Gregory Smith (10), boy genius, began his first day of class
at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland.
2000s
(2003) Over 1 million power customers lost electricity due to Hurricane Isabel
(2007) 33 students at Virginia Tech massacred by fellow student
(2007) 400th anniversary of nation's founding held at Jamestown
(2009) Sen. Edward (Ted) Kennedy buried at Arlington beside
brothers, John and Robert
(2009) Snowstorm killed three, stranded hundreds of motorists
(2010) 11 pirates indicted in Norfolk for attacks on U.S. Navy
ships near Somalia
(2010) Two members of suspected spy ring, living in Virginia,
admitted to being Russian citizens
(2011) Two people killed in shooting at Virginia Tech
(2011) Earthquake in Virginia damaged buildings in Washington, DC
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