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Events on Friday 24 May 1624 1
1624Virginia Company charter revokedVirginia becomes England's first royal colonyA London court ruling and royal order dissolved the Virginia Company of London, stripping it of its charter after years of mismanagement and heavy colonist mortality. Governance of Jamestown and the surrounding settlements passed directly to the English Crown.