Renaissance · North America · Politics
1607
Jamestown Founded
May 14, 1607
One hundred and four English settlers, mostly gentlemen unaccustomed to labor, stepped off three leaky ships onto a mosquito-ridden peninsula in the James River and named it for their king. Within a year, two-thirds would be dead of starvation, disease, and Powhatan arrows. English America had begun, and with it the slow, bloody transformation of a continent.
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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