1610s in piracy
This timeline of the history of piracy in the 1610s is a chronological list of key events involving pirates between 1610 and 1619.
Events
[edit]1610
[edit]- By December - Word has reached England of Francis Verney and Jack Ward's conversion to Islam.[1]
- December 8 - The English pirate Peter Love, who had set up base in the Outer Hebrides, was betrayed by a confederate, tried for piracy, and executed in Scotland.[2]
- Unknown - Hendrik Brouwer sails for the Dutch East Indies commanding three ships for the Dutch East India Company.[3]
- Unknown - Henry Mainwaring is commissioned to capture Peter Easton.[4]
- Unknown - Easton blockades the Bristol Channel.
1611
[edit]- Late Spring - Easton arrives off the coast of Cork with a squadron of ships requesting to parley.[1]
1612
[edit]- February - A general pardon of all pirates who are subjects of James I is announced[1]
- November - James I issues a pardon in Easton's name if he is to return the Concorde to its previous owners.[1]
1613
[edit]- Early in the year - The Duke of Savoy declares Nice and Villefranche to be free ports and offering asylum for pirates.[5]
- February 20 - Easton sails into Villefranche and meets with the Duke of Savoy, investing 100,000 crowns in return for annual income.[5]
1614
[edit]- June 4 - Mainwaring arrives in Newfoundland with a fleet of six ships.[1]
- Late in the year - Louis XIII asks Simon Danseker to help negotiate with the pirates around Tunis.[1]
- Unknown - Verney converts back to Catholicism to escape being a galley slave after being captured by a Sicilian corsair.[1]
1615
[edit]- February - Having agreed to Louis XIII's request, Danseker arrives in the Gulf of Tunis with two French ships.[1]
- June - Mainwaring engages four Spanish men-of-war off the coast of Portugal and emerges successful.[1]
1616
[edit]- June 9 - Mainwaring is pardoned by James I.[1]
1617
[edit]- Walter Raleigh is pardoned by James I and sent on a second expedition in search of El Dorado.[6]
1618
[edit]- March 20 - Mainwaring is knighted at Woking.[7]
- May 23 - The Thirty Years' War starts, causing a rise in piracy.[1]
- October 29 - Raleigh is executed.[6]
- Unknown - Piet Pieterszoon Hein is pressed into service by the Republic of Venice.
- Unknown - Robert Walsingham is captured in Ireland by the English.[1]
Births
[edit]1615
[edit]- After February - Simon Danseker
1618
[edit]- Unknown - Pérez de Guzmán
Deaths
[edit]1610
[edit]- November 9 - George Somers
- December 8 - Peter Love
1613
[edit]- April - Neil MacLeod
1615
[edit]- September 6 - Francis Verney
1618
[edit]- January - Lawrence Kemys
- June 6 - James Lancaster
- September 24 - William Parker
- October 29 - Walter Raleigh
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Tinniswood, Adrian (2010). Pirates of Barbary: corsairs, conquests, and captivity in the seventeenth-century Mediterranean. New York: Riverhead Books. ISBN 9781594487743.
- ^ "Pirates of the Hebrides and the execution of Captain Peter Love". The Scotsman. 13 February 2017. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
- ^ "South Land to New Holland - The Seynbrief". 2011-03-21. Archived from the original on 2011-03-21. Retrieved 2022-07-13.
- ^ Butts, Edward (16 January 2008). "Sir Henry Mainwaring". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
- ^ a b Clive Malcolm Senior, An Investigation of the Activities and Importance of English Pirates, 1603-40 (University of Bristol, PhD thesis, 1973), p. 88-91
- ^ a b Burns, Alan. History of the British West Indies. Allen & Unwin. OCLC 557499386.
- ^ "Knights of England". Internet Archive. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
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