Age of DiscoveryExploration Jamestown founded 1607Major The first permanent English settlement in North America. ▲ MattersSaveShareTrace roots Longest chain: The Big Bang → First stars ignite → Supernovae seed heavy elements → The Sun forms → Earth forms → First oceans → First life → Photosynthesis evolves → Great Oxidation Event → Complex cells (eukaryotes) → Multicellular life → First animals → Cambrian Explosion → First vertebrates → Jawed fish → Fish walk onto land → The amniotic egg → The Great Dying → Dinosaurs appear → Asteroid ends the dinosaurs → Early primates → Apes split from monkeys → Human line splits from chimpanzees → Walking upright → First stone tools → Genus Homo appears → Homo erectus → Control of fire → Habitual fire and cooking → Homo sapiens appears → Complex language → Natufian villages → Oldest known bread → Agriculture begins → Irrigation → Uruk and the first cities → Cylinder seals → Writing (cuneiform) → Akkadian Empire → Neo-Assyrian Empire → Persian Empire founded → Persian Royal Road → Silk Road opens → Marco Polo's journey → Columbus reaches the Americas → Jamestown founded Community notesLoading notes… Learn more ranked by votesDocumentavalon.law.yale.eduThe First Charter of Virginia, 1606 (Avalon Project) ↗Editor's pickDocumentbritannica.comJamestown Colony (Britannica) ↗Editor's pickBookDavid A. PriceLove and Hate in Jamestown ↗Editor's pickBookWilliam M. KelsoJamestown: The Buried Truth ↗Editor's pickVideoSearch on YouTubeJamestown colony founding 1607 ↗Editor's pick