The Chesipean Indians ruled the area. The Scicoaks were gone by the time the English colonists reached the site of Norfolk, having been wiped out by Chief Powhatan. One of Powhatan's advisors went to the Chief, telling him of a dream about the Powhatan Confederacy being destroyed by strangers from the east. Later, of course, strangers from the east, across the Atlantic, DID come, and so the soothsayer's dream was fulfilled.
English settlers reach Roanoke Island.
Roanoke Colony found with no survivors.