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On this day 29th October, Sir Walter Raleigh beheaded…
1618 – English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England. He was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I and was knighted in 1585. He briefly fell from favour when he secretly married one of the Queen’s ladies-in-waiting, they were both sen to the Tower of London. On 17 November, Raleigh was tried…
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