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Timeline 1607 - The Jamestown Colony is established by the Virginia Company. 1613 - Pocahontas is captured and held for ransom. She would later marry Englishman Thomas Rolfe. 1624 - Virginia becomes a royal colony. 1676 - Bacon's Rebellion occurs and the city of Jamestown is burned. 1698 - Williamsburg becomes the capital. 1765 - Patrick Henry speaks out against the Stamp Act. 1776 - Thomas Jefferson from Virginia writes the Declaration of Independence. 1781 - The British are defeated at the Battle of Yorktown and the fighting in the Revolutionary War comes to an end. 1788 - Virginia becomes the 10th state. 1789 - Virginian George Washington is elected the first President of the United States. 1801 - Thomas Jefferson is elected the third President of the United States. 1859 - Abolitionist John Brown leads a raid on the federal armory at Harper's Ferry hoping to arm the slaves in a revolt. 1861 - Virginia secedes from the Union and joins the Confederate States and the Civil War begins. 1863 - West Virginia breaks away from Virginia and forms its own state. 1865 - Robert E. Lee surrenders to the Union Army at Appomattox signaling the end of the Civil War. 1870 - Virginia is readmitted to the Union. 1943 - The Pentagon building, headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense, is opened in Arlington. 2001 - The Pentagon is crashed into by a hijacked passenger jet as part of the 9-11 terrorist attacks.
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