Commonwealth of Virginia


1607-1737

YEAR DATE EVENT GOVERNOR
1607 24 may UK colony Edward Maria Wingfield
1607 10 september John Ratcliffe
1608 7 september John Smith
1609 5 october George Percy
1610 Sir Thomas Gates (I)
1610 16 june Thomas West, Baron de la Warr
1611 28 march George Percy
1611 19 may Thomas Dale (I)
1611 august Sir Thomas Gates (II)
1612 march Thomas Dale (II)
1616 april Sir George Yeardley (I)
1617 9 april Samuel Argall
1619 9 april Nathaniel Powell
1619 19 april Sir George Yeardley (II)
1621 18 november Sir Francis Wyatt
1624 24 may UK Crown colony
1626 9 april Sir George Yeardley (III)
1627 14 november Francis West
1628 5 march John Pott
1630 5 march Sir John Harvey (I)
1635 april John West
1636 2 april Sir John Harvey (II)
1639 npvember Sir Francis Wyatt (II)
1642 february Sir William Berkeley (I)
1643 New England Confederation
1652 30 april Richard Bennett
1655 30 april Edward Digges
1658 13 march Samuel Mathews
1660 23 march Sir William Berkeley (II)
1677 27 april Herbert Jeffreys
1678 30 december Henry Chicheley
1680 10 may Thomas Culpeper, Baron Culpeper
1683 28 september Nicholas Spencer
1684 15 april Francis Howard, Baron Howard of Effingham
1686 British Dominion of New England
1687 april Nathaniel Bacon
1690 16 october Francis Nicholson (I)
1692 15 october Sir Edmund Andros
1698 9 december Francis Nicholson (II)
1704 George Hamilton Douglas, Earl of Orkney

1737-1788

YEAR DATE EVENT GOVERNOR
1737 6 september William Anne Keppel, Earl of Albemarle
1754 23 december John Campbell, Earl of Loudoun
1763 Jeffrey Amherst
1768 28 december Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt
1770 15 october William Nelson
1771 august John Murray, Earl of Dunmore
1775 16 august Edmund Pendleton
1776 5 july Commonwealth of Virginia

1788-

YEAR DATE EVENT
1788 25 june 10^ state of U.S.A.
1861 23 may 10^ State of Confederate States of America
1870 26 january Reunion to U.S.A.

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