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King James I provides a Royal Charter to the Virginia Company of London.

Date: 1606

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The Virginia Company is a joint-stock company chartered with managing the colonization of the land called "Virginia." They are charged with securing all the resources they can. After not finding gold as they had hoped, colonizers notice the tobacco grown by the Powhatan people, and in 1612, establish their first plantation.