{"slug": "walter-raleigh", "label": "Walter Raleigh", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Raleigh", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q189144", "qid": "Q189144", "description": "English statesman, soldier and writer (1552–1618)", "entries": 17, "years": 14, "span": [1552, 1792], "span_label": ["1552 CE", "1792 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 9}, {"title": "Births", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Walter Ralegh"], "related": [{"slug": "north-carolina", "label": "North Carolina", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "james-vi-and-i", "label": "James VI and I", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "tower-of-london", "label": "Tower of London", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "plymouth", "label": "Plymouth", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "england", "label": "England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "palace-of-westminster", "label": "Palace of Westminster", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-world", "label": "New World", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "virginia", "label": "Virginia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "english-people", "label": "English people", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "raleigh-north-carolina", "label": "Raleigh, North Carolina", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "south-america", "label": "South America", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "azores", "label": "Azores", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1552, "year_label": "1552 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "January 22", "text": "January 22 – Walter Raleigh, English explorer (d. 1618)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364394581#Births", "title": "1552", "revid": 1364394581, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1554, "year_label": "1554 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Walter Raleigh, English writer, poet, and explorer (d. 1618)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366649182#Births", "title": "1554", "revid": 1366649182, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1578, "year_label": "1578 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "November 19", "text": "November 19 – Humphrey Gilbert and Walter Ralegh set out from Plymouth in England, leading an expedition to establish a colony in North America. They will be forced to turn back six months later.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1356931160#October–December", "title": "1578", "revid": 1356931160, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1580, "year_label": "1580 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 7", "text": "7 October–10 October – Siege of Smerwick: The Papal forces are besieged at Dún an Óir by the English Army and surrender. At least 400 are massacred on Lord Grey's orders. Walter Ralegh is present.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1346627125#Events", "title": "1580 in Ireland", "revid": 1346627125, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1584, "year_label": "1584 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June 4", "text": "June 4 – Walter Raleigh sends Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe to explore the Outer Banks of Virginia (modern-day North Carolina), with a view to establishing an English colony; they locate Roanoke Island.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369561067#April–June", "title": "1584", "revid": 1369561067, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1585, "year_label": "1585 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "July 29", "text": "July 29 – Aboard the English ship Tiger, Roanoke expedition leader Ralph Lane negotiates an agreement with the Secotan people, who are represented by Granganimeo, the brother of the Secotan leader, King Wingino. Although the Secotans grant Lane's request to allow the English to live on Roanoke Island, he is told that they will receive no assistance from the natives, because of problems the previous year with Walter Raleigh.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365931198#July–September", "title": "1585", "revid": 1365931198, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1587, "year_label": "1587 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "January 7", "text": "January 7 – Sir Walter Raleigh appoints John White to be the Governor of the Roanoke Colony, to be established later in the year by English colonists on Roanoke Island off the coast of the modern-day U.S. state of North Carolina. White and 121 other colonists depart from Portsmouth on three ships on May 8 and arrive at Croatoan Island on July 22.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362478812#January–March", "title": "1587", "revid": 1362478812, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1595, "year_label": "1595 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "February 6", "text": "February 6 – Sir Walter Raleigh of England departs from Plymouth to begin an expedition to South America", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1339059002#January–March", "title": "1595", "revid": 1339059002, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1595, "year_label": "1595 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "April 15", "text": "April 15 – Sir Walter Raleigh travels up the Orinoco River, in search of the fabled city of El Dorado.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1339059002#April–June", "title": "1595", "revid": 1339059002, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1597, "year_label": "1597 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 17", "text": "August 17 – Islands Voyage: Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Sir Walter Raleigh set sail on an expedition to the Azores.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362801855#July–September", "title": "1597", "revid": 1362801855, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1603, "year_label": "1603 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "July 17", "text": "July 17 – Sir Walter Raleigh is arrested in England on charges of treason and of conspiring with Lord Cobham in the \"Main Plot\" to overthrow King James for replacement by Lady Arbella Stuart.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366656830#July–September", "title": "1603", "revid": 1366656830, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1603, "year_label": "1603 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "November 17", "text": "November 17 – Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason, in the converted Great Hall of Winchester Castle. He is found guilty, but his life is spared by King James I at this time, and he is returned to imprisonment in the Tower of London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366656830#October–December", "title": "1603", "revid": 1366656830, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1616, "year_label": "1616 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "March 19", "text": "March 19 – Sir Walter Ralegh, English explorer of the New World, is released from prison in the Tower of London, where he has been imprisoned for treason, in order to conduct a second (ill-fated) expedition, in search of El Dorado in South America.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366307823#March-April", "title": "1616", "revid": 1366307823, "section": "Events › March-April"}}, {"year": 1617, "year_label": "1617 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 19", "text": "August 19 – Sir Walter Ralegh's last expedition sets out from County Cork to cross to South America.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1303778913#Events", "title": "1617 in Ireland", "revid": 1303778913, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1618, "year_label": "1618 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "October 29", "text": "October 29 – English adventurer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded at the Palace of Westminster, for allegedly conspiring treasonably against James I of England in 1603, following pressure from the Spanish government, over his attack on their settlement on the Orinoco, on his last (1617–18) voyage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365216026#October–December", "title": "1618", "revid": 1365216026, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1618, "year_label": "1618 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "October 29", "text": "October 29 – Sir Walter Raleigh, English soldier, politician, courtier, explorer, Virginia settler, historian, poet and spy (executed) (b. 1552 of 1554)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365216026#October–December", "title": "1618", "revid": 1365216026, "section": "Deaths › October–December"}}, {"year": 1792, "year_label": "1792 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 20", "text": "March 20 – A new capital of North Carolina, and seat of the newly formed Wake County, is established after North Carolina State senator and surveyor William Christmas submits his design for the city. A few months later, the capital is officially named Raleigh, in honor of Sir Walter Raleigh.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359853540#January–March", "title": "1792", "revid": 1359853540, "section": "Events › January–March"}}]}