Jan 6 or 9, 1580 - John Smith is baptized; some sources say Jan 6, some Jan 9 (baptism would be within days of birth)
1595 or 1596 - Pocahontas is born (year based on age written on Van de Passe engraving)
Dec. 20, 1606 - Smith departs England aboard the Susan Constant, captained by Christopher Newport
1607
Feb 13 - Smith is arrested and imprisoned on the Susan Constant for insubordination and plotting
April 26 - Smith arrives in Virginia (while still imprisoned by expedition leaders); Pocahontas would be 11 or 12 years old; Smith 27
May 14 - Jamestown is established as the location of the colony
May - Smith accompanies Newport up the James River (6 days), making peaceful contact with Indian tribes
May 26 - In Smith's and Newport's absence, Jamestown is attacked while Wingfield defends; 2 colonists and an unknown number of Indians die
June 10 - Smith is made a member of the ruling council
June 15 - James Fort construction is completed
June 22 - Newport departs for England with mineral samples
July/August - Smith and other colonists are sick and many die; Aug. 22, Capt. Bartholomew Gosnold dies
Sept. 10 - Wingfield is replaced by Ratcliffe as Council President
Sept.- Nov. - Smith conducts two trading missions to acquire food for the colonists
early Dec. - Smith is captured by the Powhatans (Dec 12?); interacts with Opechancanough, Powhatan and possibly Pocahontas
Dec. 29 - possible date of the Powhatan ceremony and Pocahontas rescue
End of December 1607 - number of colonists reduced to 38
1608
Jan. 2 - Smith is released and returns to Jamestown and is sentenced to execution
Jan. 2 - Newport arrives with the 'first supply'plus 100 settlers; Smith is spared from execution
Jan. 7 - fire damages Jamestown fort
Feb - Newport & Smith visit Powhatan for trade; Thomas Savage is exchanged for Namontack
Spring - Pocahontas visits Jamestown on several occasions? (sources are unclear on the dates)
April 10 - Newport departs for England with more mineral samples along with Archer, Ratcliffe, Wingfield and Namontack
May - Indian plots and ambushes
June 2 - Smith's True Relation manuscript is sent to England with Nelson
June, July - Chesapeake exploration; (June 2-July 21) 7 weeks
August - Chesapeake exploration;(July 24-Sept 7?) 6 weeks
Oct - Newport returns with 70 settlers, including glass craftsmen and two women
Sept. - Newport coronates Powhatan; Smith not present (but opposed) (Firstbrook says October?)
Sept. 10 - Smith is elected Council President - edict "He that will not work shall not eat"
Nov - Anne Burras marries carpenter John Laydon/Layden; first marriage in Jamestown; they had 4 children; all family members were listed as survivors in the muster of 1624/25
Dec. - Smith sends a complaint letter to England with Newport, along with pitch, tar, glass, etc.
Smith's A True Relation is published in England, apparently a surprise to John Smith
1609
Jan. 12 - Smith goes to Werowocomoco for food; Pocahontas warns him of a plot to kill him
Jan. - Smith threatens Opechancanough with a gun to get food (Firstbrook says late Dec?)
Feb - Wowimchopunck tries to assasinate Smith? (check this)
Spring - Smith disperses settlers due to food shortages
Sept. 10 - George Percy replaces Smith as president
Sept. - Gunpowder incident befalls Smith
Oct. 4 - Smith is sent back to England after being injured by gunpowder
Nov 30 - Smith has arrived in London by this date; he convalesces
Winter 1609-1610 - the Starving Time; Gabriel Archer dies
1610
John Rolfe arrives in Jamestown after surviving a shipwreck in Bermuda (May 23 or 24?)
The few surviving colonists abandon Jamestown (June 7?) but return 4 days later upon encountering Lord De la Warr, who orders their return
1612
John Rolfe exports first crop of tobacco to England
John Smith's Map of Virginia is published
1613
April - Pocahontas is captured at a Patawomeck village by Capt. Samuel Argall
Pocahontas is schooled in Christianity by Alexander Whitaker
Pocahontas meets John Rolfe
1614 April 5 - Pocahontas marries John Rolfe
1615 Thomas Rolfe is born; some sources say January, though there is no surviving record
1616
Pocahontas, John Rolfe, Thomas Rolfe depart for England
According to John Rolfe's records, there are 351 settlers at 6 settlements in and around Jamestown
John Smith's claimed letter to Queen Anne asking for kind treatment of Pocahontas; no paper original exists; we only know of this because Smith published a purported draft in 1624
Pocahontas consorts with English royalty and attends a masque
John Smith meets Pocahontas for the last time in Brentford, England; the meeting is somewhat tense
1617 March 17 - Pocahontas dies and is buried in Gravesend, England; son Thomas remains in England
1618 Wahunsenaca, Pocahontas's father and paramount chief of the Powhatan Indians, dies
1622
March (exact date unknown) - John Rolfe dies; his name is not listed as a victim of the Powhatan attack which happens near in time; his will was dated March 10
March 22, 1622 - Powhatan uprising; 347 colonists are killed by Powhatan Indians, roughly 1/4 of the Jamestown population
1624 Generall Historie of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles published; Smith's 1616 letter to Queen Anne surfaces here