April Events in Virginia

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- Pocahontas married James Rolfe, in 1614.

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- Thomas Jefferson was born at Shadwell in Goochland County (now in Albermarle County, east of modern-day Charlottesville), 1743

- Dr. Thomas Walker's expedition for the Loyal Land Company crosses what he called Cave Gap (Cumberland Gap), 1750

- Students at Moton High School in Farmville staged a surprise walkout in 1951. The locally-generated school strike attracted the support of the NAACP office in Richmond, which filed a lawsuit to desegregate the public schools in Prince Edward County. The case was incorporated into Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. Prince Edward County officials closed all public schools between September 1959 to September 1964, the most visible demonstration of Massive Resistance in Virginia.

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- Virginia secession convention passed Ordinance of Secession, in 1861

- French evict Virginians from fort they are building at Forks of the Ohio, 1754

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- Susan Constant, Discovery, and Godspeed reach Cape Henry, 1607. They got a hostile greeting from Native Virginians: "At night, when wee were going aboard, there came the Savages creeping on all foure, from the Hills like Beares, with their Bowes in their mouthes, charged us very desperately in the faces, hurt Captaine Gabrill Archer in both his hands, and a sayler in two places of the body very dangerous. After they had spent their Arrowes, and felt the sharpnesse of our shot, they retired into the Woods with a great noise, and so left us." (George Percy, Observations gathered out of a Discourse of the Plantation of the Southerne Colonie in Virginia by the English, 1606)

April 27

- 60 people killed in Capitol Disaster, when floor collapses after too many people gather to hear decision in a controversial case at the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals (located on the upper floor of the capitol), in 1870

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