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1552 |
Date of actual birth is unknown. He was born in Hayes Barton in East Budleigh, Devonshire, England. He was initially educated by a home tutor |
1567 |
The young Raleigh joined a troop of a hundred horse, raised by a family member called the Compte de Montgomerie |
1572 |
August 24: He witnesses the St Bartholomew's Day massacre where French Protestants were massacred by French Catholics in Paris |
1574 |
Attended Oriel College, Oxford |
1575 |
Became a member of the Middle Temple |
1578 |
Walter Raleigh sails with his half brother, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, to America |
1579 |
Has an illegitimate daughter by a local woman called Alice Goold |
1580 |
Raleigh helps to put down the Irish rebellion and becomes a favourite of Queen Elizabeth. and becomes extremely wealthy from lucrative wine monopolies he is granted by the Queen |
1581 |
He founded the secret society called "The School of Night" which was closely related to the mysterious Rosicrucian movement |
1584 |
March 25: Walter Raleigh receives the patent to explore and settle in North America |
1585 |
January 6: Queen Elizabeth knights Walter Raleigh and makes him governor of the new territory discovered by Amadas and Barlowe. Raleigh names it "Virginia" in her honor |
1586 |
Sir Francis Walsingham and Sir Walter Raleigh discover plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth and replace her with Mary Queen of Scots (called the Babington Plot) |
1587 |
July 22: Sir Walter Raleigh backs the first English Colony in North America (North Carolina) led by John White to the English Roanoke Colony |
1588 |
Raleigh donated "Ark Royal" to the English navy to lead the English fleet against the Spanish Armada |
1589 |
:Sir Walter Raleigh & Sir Richard Grenville guard the sea approaches to Ireland |
1592 |
Married Elizabeth (Bessie) Throckmorton incurring the wrath of Queen Elizabeth when she discovers that he has married one her ladies in waiting. Queen Elizabeth sends Sir Walter Raleigh to the Tower of London |
1593 |
Walter and Bessie have a son, also called Walter |
1595 |
6 February: Sir Walter Raleigh leaves England to sail to the New World looking for the city of El Dorado |
1600 |
Appointment as governor of Jersey (one of the Channel Islands) |
1603 |
24 March: Queen Elizabeth I dies and is succeeded by King James, the son of Mary Queen of Scots |
1604 |
Walter and Bessie have another son called Carew |
1612 |
King James releases Raleigh, who promises to give King James a fortune if he allows him to return to Guiana |
1616 |
He travels to Guiana but his mission fails and he attacks a Spanish settlement |
1618 |
Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for attacking the Spanish |
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