Execution of Sir Walter Raleigh
1618 · Event
After his last Orinoco voyage attacks a Spanish settlement against James I's orders, Raleigh is beheaded at Westminster on his old treason sentence, joking that the axe was a sharp medicine.
On these timelines: England, Master, United Kingdom (combined), Age of Exploration
More from England
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain (450)
- Roman conquest of Britain (43)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Domesday Book (1086)
- Reign of William the Conqueror (1066)
- Acts of Union 1707 (1707)
- Battle of Hastings (1066)
Around 1618
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Edo period (1603)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)