8 events with tag "Virginia"
1609
ID: 5641
Captain John Smith encounters and writes about skunks in Virginia
ID: 5641
1612
ID: 5694
John Rolfe successfully cultivates tobacco in Virginia - becomes colony's economic salvation, drives slave trade expansion
ID: 5694
1855
ID: 906
Yellow fever devastates Norfolk, Virginia
ID: 906
1912
ID: 1209
Walter A. Plecker becomes Virginia's Racial Registrar (serves until 1946)
ID: 1209
1924
ID: 1323
Virginia's Racial Integrity Act passed - requires racial registration of all Virginians
ID: 1323
1930
ID: 1385
Virginia raids - Sheriffs conduct systematic sweeps in Brush Mountain region; Over 8,000 Virginians sterilized
ID: 1385
1934
ID: 1416
Josef Dejarnette (Virginia hospital superintendent): 'Hitler is beating us at our own game.'
ID: 1416
2002
ID: 3073
Virginia governor formally apologizes for eugenic sterilizations
ID: 3073