{"slug": "john-rolfe", "label": "John Rolfe", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rolfe", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q433948", "qid": "Q433948", "description": "English-born explorer, farmer, and merchant", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [1610, 1617], "span_label": ["1610 CE", "1617 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "jamestown-virginia", "label": "Jamestown, Virginia", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "pocahontas", "label": "Pocahontas", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "powhatan", "label": "Powhatan", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "native-americans-in-the-united-states", "label": "Native Americans in the United States", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bermuda", "label": "Bermuda", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1610, "year_label": "1610 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 23", "text": "May 23 – Jamestown, Virginia: Acting as temporary Governor, Thomas Gates, along with John Rolfe, Captain Ralph Hamor, Sir George Somers, and other survivors from the Sea Venture (wrecked at Bermuda) arrive at Jamestown; they find that 60 have survived the \"starving time\" (winter), the fort palisades and gates have been torn down, and empty houses have been used for firewood, in fear of attacks by natives outside the fort area.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361322431#April–June", "title": "1610", "revid": 1361322431, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1611, "year_label": "1611 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "At Jamestown, John Rolfe imports tobacco seeds from the island of Trinidad (Nicotiana tabacum); the native tobacco is Nicotiana rustica.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1277342005#Date_unknown", "title": "1611", "revid": 1277342005, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1613, "year_label": "1613 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June 28", "text": "June 28 (July 8 N.S.) – From Jamestown, John Rolfe makes the first shipment to England of tobacco grown in Virginia, dispatching it on the ship The Elizabeth. The tobacco arrives in England after a voyage of three weeks.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366649732#April–June", "title": "1613", "revid": 1366649732, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1614, "year_label": "1614 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "April 15", "text": "April 15 – Pocahontas, the 17-year-old daughter of Mamanatowick Wahunsenacawh of the Powhatan Algonquian native tribe in the modern-day U.S. state of Virginia, is forced into child marriage with English colonist John Rolfe at Jamestown, a year after her capture in war. She is given the name of Rebecca Rolfe and departs with John Rolfe to England in 1616, dying before she can return.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372816433#April–June", "title": "1614", "revid": 1372816433, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1616, "year_label": "1616 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "June 12", "text": "June 12 – Pocahontas (now Rebecca) arrives in England, with her husband, John Rolfe, their one-year-old son, Thomas Rolfe, her half-sister Matachanna (alias Cleopatra) and brother-in-law Tomocomo, the shaman also known as Uttamatomakkin (having set out in May). Ten Powhatan Indians are brought by Sir Thomas Dale, the colonial governor, at the request of the Virginia Company, as a fund-raising device. Dale, having been recalled under criticism, writes A True Relation of the State of Virginia, Left by Sir Thomas Dale, Knight, in May last, 1616, in a successful effort to redeem his leadership. Neither Pocahontas or Dale see Virginia again.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366307823#May–June", "title": "1616", "revid": 1366307823, "section": "Events › May–June"}}, {"year": 1617, "year_label": "1617 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March 21", "text": "March 21 – Pocahontas (Rebecka Rolfe), daughter of the Chief of the Powhatan Algonquian tribe in the English colony of Virginia and the wife of English colonist John Rolfe, dies of smallpox after an illness of three days contracted as the couple and their son were preparing to return to America. She is buried at Gravesend.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367152520#January–March", "title": "1617", "revid": 1367152520, "section": "Events › January–March"}}]}