Timeline Sunday 4 August 1619

Events on Sunday 4 August 1619 1

• 1619 First representative assembly meets in Virginia Virginia House of Burgesses convenes at Jamestown Twenty-two burgesses elected from Virginia's plantations convened in the choir of the Jamestown church, forming the first elected representative legislative body in English North America. The assembly passed laws on tobacco prices, Sabbath observance, and relations with Native Americans before adjourning due to an outbreak of illness. It set a precedent for colonial self-government later followed throughout British America.