{"slug": "robert-blake-admiral", "label": "Robert Blake (admiral)", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Blake_%28admiral%29", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q320959", "qid": "Q320959", "description": "military commander of the Commonwealth of England (1599-1657)", "entries": 17, "years": 7, "span": [1598, 1657], "span_label": ["1598 CE", "1657 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 11}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Admiral Robert Blake"], "related": [{"slug": "prince-rupert-of-the-rhine", "label": "Prince Rupert of the Rhine", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "tunis", "label": "Tunis", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "spanish-treasure-fleet", "label": "Spanish treasure fleet", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "royal-navy", "label": "Royal Navy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "westminster-abbey", "label": "Westminster Abbey", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "plymouth", "label": "Plymouth", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "greenwich", "label": "Greenwich", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lisbon", "label": "Lisbon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tagus", "label": "Tagus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "commonwealth-of-england", "label": "Commonwealth of England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "anglo-spanish-war-16541660", "label": "Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660)", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1598, "year_label": "1598 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "September 27", "text": "September 27 – Robert Blake, English admiral (d. 1657)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372769896#July–September", "title": "1598", "revid": 1372769896, "section": "Births › July–September"}}, {"year": 1649, "year_label": "1649 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "March", "text": "March – Robert Blake is promoted to become a General at Sea of the English fleet.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353737236#Events", "title": "1649 in England", "revid": 1353737236, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1649, "year_label": "1649 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 4", "text": "March 4 – The first ever set of rules and regulations for England's Parliamentary Navy, Robert Blake's The Laws of War and Ordinances of the Sea, is adopted by the House of Commons, and Blake is promoted to the position of General at Sea of the English fleet.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367892628#January–March", "title": "1649", "revid": 1367892628, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1649, "year_label": "1649 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 22", "text": "May 22–October – Robert Blake blockades Prince Rupert's fleet in Kinsale, Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367892628#April–June", "title": "1649", "revid": 1367892628, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1649, "year_label": "1649 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 22", "text": "22 May–October – Robert Blake blockades Prince Rupert's fleet in Kinsale, Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353737236#Events", "title": "1649 in England", "revid": 1353737236, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1649, "year_label": "1649 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 22", "text": "22 May–October – Robert Blake blockades Prince Rupert's fleet in Kinsale.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1318941674#Events", "title": "1649 in Ireland", "revid": 1318941674, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1650, "year_label": "1650 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 10", "text": "March 10 – The Commonwealth of England's navy Robert Blake blockades a surviving English Royalist fleet commanded by Prince Rupert of the Rhine in the Tagus estuary at Lisbon. 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His body is given a lying in state in the Queen's House, Greenwich and a full state funeral in Cromwell's presence, and he becomes one of the first commoners to be honoured by burial in Westminster Abbey (although reinterred after the Restoration).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355059733#Events", "title": "1657 in England", "revid": 1355059733, "section": "Events"}}]}