Sir Walter Raleigh

Personal Info

• Date of Birth-1552
• He was born in
• He died during 1618 in London 

Bio

• he was an english explore
• went to prison in London
• He got killed because he got accused for treason
• He severed in the army
• He named a Island Virginia 

Profile information

• He studied at a college in France
• the army he severed in was Elizabeths
• He traveled from North Carolina to Florida
• He wrote the history of the world

Timeline 1552

• Date of Birth: Born in 1552
• Place of Birth : Hayes Barton in Devonshire, England
• Parents: Father - Walter Raleigh
• Mother: Katherine Gilbert
• Date of actual birth is unknown

1567

• The young Raleigh joined a troop of a hundred horse,

1572

•  He witnesses the 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

•  illegitimate daughter by a local woman called Alice Gold

1580

• Raleigh help put down the Irish rebellion and becomes a favourite of Queen Elizabeth.

1581

• He founded the secret society called "The School of Night" 

1584

• March 25: Walter Raleigh receives the patent to explore and settle in North America
• Walter Raleigh's fleet of seven vessels under Richard Grenville and Ralph Lane
• Virginia colony of Roanoke Island established by Walter Raleigh

1584

• March 25: Walter Raleigh receives the patent to explore and settle in North America
• Walter Raleigh's fleet of seven vessels under Richard Grenville and Ralph Lane
• Virginia colony of Roanoke Island established by Walter Raleigh

1585

• Queen Elizabeth knights Walter Raleigh and makes him governor of the new territory
• the territory was 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
• He was going to replace her with Mary queen of scots

1587

• Virginia Dare born in Roanoke colony , the first English child born in North America
• Became captain of the Queen's guard

1588

• Raleigh donated "Ark Royal" the English navy to lead the English fleet 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
• 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

• 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 

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

Sources

• http://www.bartleby.com/349/authors/160.html
• http://www.biography.com/people/walter-raleigh-9450901
• http://www.datesandevents.org