{"slug": "pocahontas", "label": "Pocahontas", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocahontas", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193406", "qid": "Q193406", "description": "American native woman", "entries": 10, "years": 8, "span": [1595, 1618], "span_label": ["1595 CE", "1618 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "powhatan", "label": "Powhatan", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "john-rolfe", "label": "John Rolfe", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "algonquian-peoples", "label": "Algonquian peoples", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "native-americans-in-the-united-states", "label": "Native Americans in the United States", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "james-vi-and-i", "label": "James VI and I", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jamestown-virginia", "label": "Jamestown, Virginia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "john-smith-explorer", "label": "John Smith (explorer)", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1595, "year_label": "1595 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Pocahontas, Algonquian princess (d. 1617)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1339059002#Date_unknown", "title": "1595", "revid": 1339059002, "section": "Births › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1596, "year_label": "1596 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Pocahontas, Algonquian (Native American) princess (d. 1617)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369722581#Date_unknown", "title": "1596", "revid": 1369722581, "section": "Births › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1607, "year_label": "1607 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "December 10", "text": "December 10 – Captain John Smith and nine men depart the Jamestown Colony on a barge in order to get more corn for the English fort. Sailing up the Chickahominy River, the boat reaches a settlement of the Appomattoc tribe at Apocant. While Smith, Jehu Robinson and Thomas Emery are further upstream in a canoe, George Casson is captured at Apocant by Opchanacanough, brother of Chief Powhatan. Robinson and Emery are killed while Smith is away from their camp, and Smith is soon taken prisoner by Opchancanough and, on January 5, is delivered to Powhatan at Werowocomoco for execution. After an intervention by Powhatan's daughter, Pocahontas, Smith is released a month after his capture.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358831090#October–December", "title": "1607", "revid": 1358831090, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1613, "year_label": "1613 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "April 13", "text": "April 13 – Samuel Argall captures Algonquian princess Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia, to ransom her for some English prisoners held by her father, Chief Powhatan. She is brought to Henricus as a hostage.", "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": "Culture & Society", "date": "January 5", "text": "January 5 – Pocahontas and Tomocomo of the Powhatan Algonquian tribe, in the Virginia colony of America, meet King James I of England as his guests, at the Banqueting House at Whitehall.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367152520#January–March", "title": "1617", "revid": 1367152520, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1617, "year_label": "1617 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March 21", "text": "March 21 – Pocahontas, Algonquian (Native American) princess (b. c. 1596)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367152520#January–March", "title": "1617", "revid": 1367152520, "section": "Deaths › January–March"}}, {"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"}}, {"year": 1618, "year_label": "1618 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April", "text": "April – Powhatan (proper name Wahunsenacawh), Algonquin (indigenous American) leader, father of Pocahontas (b. c. 1547)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365216026#April–June", "title": "1618", "revid": 1365216026, "section": "Deaths › April–June"}}]}