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Period: Jan 1, 1552 to
Life of Sir Walter Raleigh
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Jan 1, 1567
Educated by a home tutor.
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Jan 1, 1567
Started being raised by Compte de Montgomerie
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Aug 24, 1572
Witnessed the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre where French Protestants were massacred by French Catholics in Paris
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Jan 1, 1574
Attended Oriel College; Oxford
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Jan 1, 1575
Became a member of the Middle Temple
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Jan 1, 1578
Sir Walter's Father, Walter Raleigh, traveled to America with half brother, Sir Humphrey Gilbert
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Jan 1, 1579
Has an illegitiment daughter by a local woman Alice Goold
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Jan 1, 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
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Jan 1, 1581
Raleigh helps settle the Irish Rebellion, and becomes wealthy from selling wine.
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Walter Raleigh becomes governor of the new territroy
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Sir Francis Walsingham and Sir Walter Raleigh plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth to replace her with Mary Queen of Scots
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Starts the first English Colony in North America [North Carolina] led by John White to the English Roanoke Colony
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Donated "Ark Royal" to the English navy to lead the English fleet against the Spanish Armada
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Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Richard Grenville guard the sea side to keep Ireland invaders
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Marries Elizabeth Throckmorton
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Walter and Elizabeth have a son, also named Walter
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Leaves England to sail to the New World looking for the city, El Dorado
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Appointed governor of Jersey
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Queen Elizabeth I dies and is replaced by King James, the son of Mary Queen of Scots
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Walter and Elizabeth have another son, Carew
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Promises to give King James a fortune if he allows him to return to Guiana
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Travels back to Guiana, but fails after attacking a Spanish Settlement
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Beheaded for attacking the Spanish