The Virginia Company was an English trading company chartered by King James I on 10 April 1606 with the objective of colonizing the eastern coast of America. The coast the company was chartered to settle was named Virginia after Elizabeth I, and it stretched from present-day Maine to the Carolinas. The company's shareholders were Londoners, distinguishing it from the Plymouth Company, which was chartered at the same time and was made up largely of gentlemen from Plymouth, England. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Founding Year Founding Date Headquarters Chronology
Dissolved YearWikidata Q1152507, property P576 (dissolved, abolished or demolished date). Classification
Institution SubtypeHistoric Trading Company 1 Geography
Country or Jurisdiction ServedWikidata Q1152507, property P17 (country). In the Other Atlases
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1. Virginia Company (Wikipedia)
Infobox, founded
1606 4 10 at Westminster, England
Wikidata, inception
1606-04-10
Infobox, hq_location_city
London
Introduction, institution-subtype
The Virginia Company was an English trading company chartered by King James I on 10 April 1606 with the objective of colonizing the eastern coast of America.
In Group: Chartered Colonial and Trading Companies, Lead paragraph
was an English trading company chartered by King James I on 10 April 1606 with the objective of colonizing the eastern coast of America.
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