This Day in History

APRIL 5TH

1614: Pocahontas married John Rolfe. Pocahontas was a Native American woman and daughter of Powhattan, the chief of a confederation of tribes. She supposedly saved the life of John Smith, an English captive of her father’s, when she was a young girl. Smith had established a fort in the region controlled by Pohattan’s confederation. When Smith was captured by a group of confederation hunte…