1600s in piracy

none This timeline of the history of piracy in the 1600s is a chronological list of key events involving pirates between 1600 and 1609. Events 1600 April – Baltazar de Cordes captures the island of Chiloé along with Dutch and native forces.Lane Kris E. Pillaging the empire : piracy in the Americas, 1500–1750 1998 M.E. Sharpe 0-7656-0256-3 Armonk, N.Y. 37903443 December 14 – Olivier van Noort and the Spanish engage in a naval combat off Fortune Island, forcing van Noort to quit piracy in the Philippines.Transpacific engagements : trade, translation, and visual culture of entangled empires (1565–1898) 2020 Florina H. Capistrano-Baker Meha Priyadarshini 978-621-8028-25-8 Ayala Foundation Makati City, Philippines 1296690938 Unknown – James Lancaster is given control of the East India Company's first fleet.Markham Clements R. Clements R Markham http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315551524 The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, Kt., to the East Indies 2017-05-15 Hakluyt Society 10.4324/9781315551524 978-1-315-55152-4 2022-07-10 2022-07-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20220710201844/https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781315551524/voyages-sir-james-lancaster-kt-east-indies-clements-markham live Unknown – Walter Raleigh is sworn into office as governor of Jersey, an island off the coast of Normandy.Latham Agnes MC 25 October 2021 Sir Walter Raleigh https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Raleigh-English-explorer live 10 July 2022 Encyclopedia Britannica 10 June 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220610021748/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Raleigh-English-explorer 1601 January – Baltazar de Cordes' ship along with the surviving crew get captured and imprisoned in Tidore, a Portuguese colony, after battling the Spanish in Chiloé. February – William Parker captures Portobello from the Spanish and sacks it.Earle Peter The sack of panama : captain morgan and the battle for the caribbean 2013 St. Martin's Press 978-1-4299-5489-1 New York 865109573 April 22 – The East India Company's first fleet sets sail from Torbay under the command of James Lancaster.Raikes Charles The Englishman of India 1867 London en https://archive.org/details/englishmaninind01raikgoog/page/n37/mode/2up Longmans, Green, and Co. 18 May – Michael Geare captures three ships in the West Indies with David Middleton while commanding the Archangel but loses contact with one of the ships.Purchas Samuel Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his pilgrimes : contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others 16 2014 978-1-316-05069-9 Cambridge 298–301 en 911057318 Cambridge University Press August 26 – Olivier van Noort returns to Rotterdam captaining the Mauritius after battling the Spanish, making him the first Dutch person to circumnavigate the globe.Quanchi Max Historical dictionary of the discovery and exploration of the Pacific islands 2005 Scarecrow Press John Robson 978-0-8108-6528-0 Lanham, Md. 59 en 665817422 September 9 – James Lancaster's fleet arrives in Table Bay in southern Africa, ravaged with scurvy.Griffin JP April 2013 James Lancaster's Prevention of Scurvy Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 106 4 118 10.1177/0141076813478788 23564889 3618161 1602 December – Jan de Bouff gets ambushed by six Dutch ships but manages to capture two of them with the help of three other Dunkirkers. Unknown – Richard Hawkins is released after being imprisoned by Spain.Chisholm Hugh Hawkins, Sir Richard Cambridge University Press 1911 11th 99 en Unknown – Peter Easton is put in command of a convoy as a privateer, commissioned by Elizabeth I, to protect the Newfoundland fishing fleet.McCarthy Matthew Gerard 1 June 2017 No Colony for Old Men: Peter Easton in Conception Bay https://conceptionbaymuseum.com/2017/06/01/no-colony-for-old-men-peter-easton-in-conception-bay/ live 10 July 2022 Conception Bay Museum en 22 April 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210422175801/https://conceptionbaymuseum.com/2017/06/01/no-colony-for-old-men-peter-easton-in-conception-bay/ 1603 January 24 – Michael Geare and Christopher Newport, working with the French, direct eight ships during a landing of privateers near Santiago de Cuba but are eventually forced to flee.Marley David Historic cities of the Americas : an illustrated encyclopedia 2005 978-1-57607-574-6 Santa Barbara, California 150 en 62211801 ABC-CLIO July – Richard Hawkins receives a knighthood.The House of Commons, 1604–1629 2010 Published for the History of Parliament Trust by Cambridge University Press A. D. Thrush John P. Ferris 978-1-107-00225-8 Cambridge 668195704 July 20 – By this date, Walter Raleigh has been imprisoned in the Tower of London after being accused of devising the Main Plot against James I.Wolfe Brendan 22 October 2021 Sir Walter Raleigh (ca. 1552–1618) https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/raleigh-sir-walter-ca-1552-1618/ live 10 July 2022 Encyclopedia Virginia 24 June 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220624063917/https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/raleigh-sir-walter-ca-1552-1618/ October – James Lancaster receives a knighthood from James I after returning from his voyage with the East India Company. 1604 August 28 – The Treaty of London is signed and ends the nineteen-year Anglo-Spanish War.European treaties bearing on the history of the United States and its dependencies 2004 Lawbook Exchange Frances G. Davenport Charles Oscar, or 1869-1944 Paullin 1-58477-422-3 Clark, N.J. 246 en 53972141 https://archive.org/details/europeantreatie00paulgoog/page/n254/mode/2up Unknown – Jack Ward is allegedly pressed into service for the British and is placed in the Channel Fleet aboard the Lyon's Whelp.Tinniswood Adrian Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean Penguin 2010 9781101445310 en 1605 Unknown – Many Dutch and English sailors, including Richard Bishop and Anthony Johnson, join Jack Ward's crew. 1606 April 10 – William Parker becomes a founding member of the Virginia Company.The English Crown 7 December 2022 First Charter of Virginia (1606) https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/first-charter-of-virginia-1606/ live 10 July 2022 Encyclopedia Virginia 9 July 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220709053545/https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/first-charter-of-virginia-1606/ Summer – Jack Ward captures a dhow in the Strait of Gibraltar allegedly carrying Catholic slaves. Early November – Jack Ward captures the English merchantman John Baptist captained under John Keye and renames it Little John. Unknown – Hendrik Brouwer sails to the Dutch East Indies for the Dutch East India Company. 1607 January 28 - Jack Ward takes the Venetian Carminati, one of his richest hauls. Unknown - Zymen Danseker steals a ship in Marseilles and sails to Algiers. 1608 Unknown - Frances Verney leaves his wife and stepmother/mother-in-law after losing a case to them, headed for Morocco. 1609 November 17 - Zymen Danseker returns to Marseilles and is pardoned upon return. Unknown - James Harris is ambushed by the British while stopping in Baltimore. Births 1600 February 1 – Johan Evertsen 1604 April 16 – Zheng Zhilong 1607 Unknown - Ben Robins 1609 Unknown - Richard Ingle Deaths 1603 Unknown – Grace O'Malley of natural causes, though the exact date and cause is disputed.Mark Joshua J 1 November 2021 Grace O'Malley https://www.worldhistory.org/Grace_O'Malley/ live 10 July 2022 World History Encyclopedia 16 April 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220416094331/https://www.worldhistory.org/Grace_O%27Malley/ 1609 Unknown – Murat Reis the Elder, during a siege of Vlorë. See also Timeline of piracy 1610s in piracy References Category:1600s Category:Piracy by year