Walter Raleigh Beheaded
October 29, 1618
On a frosty October morning in Old Palace Yard, Westminster, Sir Walter Raleigh mounted the scaffold, felt the edge of the axe, and told the executioner it was a sharp medicine but a sound cure. His head fell with one stroke. The Elizabethan age had now genuinely ended, its last great adventurer dispatched by a king who had never liked him.
In context
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Before and after in Europe
Before and after in Politics
- Before: 1617: Nur Jahan Rises
- After: May 30, 1619: Oldenbarnevelt Executed
Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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