Powhatan Confederacy

State · 1570–1646 CE · at its largest around 1570 CE

Paramount chiefdom of some 30 Algonquian-speaking peoples of Tidewater Virginia led by Wahunsenacawh (Powhatan); broken by wars with the English colony by 1646.

On its lands while it lasted

• Pocahontas (c. 1596 CE – 1617 CE): Powhatan woman, daughter of the paramount chief Powhatan, who married colonist John Rolfe and died in England.
• Jamestown (1607–1699 CE): First permanent English settlement in the Americas, founded by the Virginia Company; capital of Virginia until 1699.
• Richmond (1607 CE): Capital of Confederate States of America (1861–1865).
• First Virginia House of Burgesses (1619 CE): The first elected legislative assembly in English America met at Jamestown in 1619; the same year the first enslaved Africans reached English Virginia.

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