Historical Events

Walter Raleigh Executed

1618 English adventurer, writer, and courtier Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against King James I of England

Penn Lands in Pennsylvania

1682 William Penn lands at what is now Chester, Pennsylvania

1709 England and the Netherlands sign the anti-French First Barrier Treaty ("Barrieretraktaat")

1792 Mount Hood in Oregon is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton, who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River

1867 Mail packets "Rhone" and "Wye" capsize off St. Thomas, Virgin Islands

British South Africa Company

1888 Lord Salisbury grants Cecil Rhodes charter for British South Africa Company

1889 Queen Victoria grants Cecil Rhodes rights t

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