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Virginia under Charles I
Timeline for series 7 of the American History Podcast
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Sarah Tanksalvala
⟶ Updated 10 months ago ⟶
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American History Podcast episodes
Events
Francis Wyatt becomes Governor of Virginia & approves new, more detailed instructions for governor
George Yeardley begins second term as Virginia governor
Francis West becomes interim/deputy governor of Virginia
John Pott elected interim Governor of Virginia
John Harvey takes office as governor of Virginia
Councilors plan the "thrusting out of Governor Harvey."
John West elected governor of Virginia
Harvey reinstated as governor
Francis Wyatt named governor of Virginia
William Berkeley instated as governor of Virginia
Harvey appointed governor of Virginia
Virginia Company grants Harvey land
Harvey goes to Virginia at head of commission to investigate Virginia conditions
Harvey returns to England
Harvey presides over his first assembly as Governor
Pott convicted of two felonies
Harvey complains about Council opposing him
Harvey accepts limits of his commission as he and council enter truce
Assembly puts Mathews in charge of enlarging Point Comfort fort
Privy Council orders Harvey to limit tobacco planting
Virginia ships 5-10,000 bushels of corn to New England
King names Richard Kemp secretary of Virginia
Mathews, Pott and Harvey arrive in Plymouth
Harvey presents his case in England
Harvey arrives back in Virginia
Harvey obeys order to construct state house sometime this year
King reappoints Wyatt as governor.
Harvey writes final letter from Point Comfort before returning to England
Berkeley splits Assembly into bicameral legislature sometime this year
Yeardley organized raid on Indians living near any English towns
Yeardley dies
General assembly directed by king to discuss his proposals
Pretended peace with Powhatan to redeem captives
Harvey regulates tobacco planting
Harvey directs first revisal/updating of Virginia laws
Sometime this year, county government established
Sometime this year, county government established. THIS ONE
King orders mutinous councilors estates restored
Wyatt appointed to replace Harvey
Berkeley appointed governor as Mathews faction fights and continues Harvey defamation
Berkeley starts governor duties
Commission reappoints Francis West governor
Harvey returns to England
Charles announces Virginia will remain a crown colony
Wyatt returns to England
Assembly discusses new tobacco contract.
Yeardley appointed to succeed Wyatt
Harvey calls Assembly to discuss building palisade
King officially allows Virginia Assemblies as a permanent institution
Governor West writes report explaining Virginia's slow progress
West leaves for England
Sometime this year, Earl of Dorset commission to study conditions in Virginia and suggest improvements
Capp asks for Company to write testimonial of esteem they held him in
Francis West presents petition to the king asking him to take control of the colony
Capp and Butler write letters blaming colony and company leaders for massacre and plague
King orders colony to make pitch, tar, etc, THIS DATE
Assembly writes to king that mere suggestion of monopoly is damaging
Capps applies to leave Virginia, to follow king's orders, forbidden, escapes, investigation
Harvey writes to Secretary of State
Harvey complains about Council THIS MONTH
THIS YEAR Kemp writes about improved state of Virginia
First highway act
SOMETIME THIS YEAR king ordered Virginians to diversify
Laws regulating tobacco codified
Good report from Harvey on tobacco and corn
SOMETIME THIS YEAR, Assembly sends petition rejecting king's tobacco contract, but Harvey doesn't send it back
After Wyatt succeeds Harvey, preamble to new tobacco act shows woes
Thomas Young's ship breaks down this summer, and Harvey causes outrage when he hires carpenters
