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John Smith (explorer)

English soldier, explorer, writer (1580–1631)

8 dated entries naming John Smith (explorer), drawn from 6 separate years between 1580 CE and 1631 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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16th century

  • 1580January – John Smith, English explorer and Virginia settler (d. 1631)source

17th century

  • 1607December 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.source
  • 1607June 10 – In Jamestown, Captain John Smith is released from arrest and sworn in as a member of the colony Council.source
  • 1608January 11 – John Smith is released by Powhatan after 15 days of captivity, and arrives back at Jamestown the next day. Upon his return, instead of being welcomed, he is charged with negligence for the deaths of the two men with him at the time of his capture, Jehu Robinson and Thomas Emery, but later exonerated.source
  • 1608September 10 – John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, and begins expanding the fort.source
  • 1609September 10 – Jamestown: Capt. George Percy replaces Captain John Smith as president of the Council, and Smith returns to England.source
  • 1616Captain John Smith publishes his book A description of New England in London. Smith relates one voyage to the coast of Massachusetts and Maine, in 1614, and an attempted voyage in 1615, when he was captured by French pirates and detained for several months before escaping.source
  • 1631June 21 – John Smith (explorer), English soldier and colonist (b. 1580)source

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