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1617 • Weighing ceremony of Jahangir. Described by the first English ambassador to the Mughal court Sir Thomas Roe.
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1618 English adventurer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Ralegh 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.

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