jan 1, 1607 - Virginia Company
Description:
Who: London investors, explorers.
What: Formed joint-stock company to establish a colony.
Where: Jamestown.
When: 1607.
Why: 1st successful British settlement in North America. As a corporation, they were empowered to govern themselves, established precedent of self-government.
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