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Drews timeline of Sir Walter Raleigh

By ankennedy2026@grsu14.org
  • 1552

    Birth

  • 1572

    College

    Walter went to Oriel College in Oxford and studied law at the Middle Temple law college
  • 1578

    Failed voyage

    Raleigh sent his brother on a voyage to find the Northwest passage but his brother never made it
  • Period: 1579 to

    Queens guard

    Raleigh fought as a queens guard.
  • Period: to

    Colony

    Raleigh did multiple trips to North America to make a colony Roanoke on the coast of North Carolina.

  • Captain of the queens guard

    Raleigh was made captain of the queens guard

  • The lost colony of Roanoke island

    Raleigh made a trip to his colony only to find gone. It was known as the lost colony of Roanoke island.

  • A unlucky marriage

    Raleigh married Bessy Throckmorton witch made the queen jealous. She sent both of them to the prison in the tower of London.

  • Raleighs death

    Raleigh was sentenced to death in Westminster.