1610s in piracy

none This timeline of the history of piracy in the 1610s is a chronological list of key events involving pirates between 1610 and 1619. Events 1610 By December - Word has reached England of Francis Verney and Jack Ward's conversion to Islam.Tinniswood Adrian Pirates of Barbary: corsairs, conquests, and captivity in the seventeenth-century Mediterranean Riverhead Books 2010 9781594487743 New York en 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.13 February 2017 Pirates of the Hebrides and the execution of Captain Peter Love https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/pirates-hebrides-and-execution-captain-peter-love-604327 11 July 2022 The Scotsman Unknown - Hendrik Brouwer sails for the Dutch East Indies commanding three ships for the Dutch East India Company.2011-03-21 South Land to New Holland - The Seynbrief http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/southland/Trade-Seynbrief.html 2022-07-13 2011-03-21 https://web.archive.org/web/20110321080315/http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/southland/Trade-Seynbrief.html dead Unknown - Henry Mainwaring is commissioned to capture Peter Easton.Butts Edward 16 January 2008 Sir Henry Mainwaring https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sir-henry-mainwaring 11 July 2022 The Canadian Encyclopedia Unknown - Easton blockades the Bristol Channel. 1611 Late Spring - Easton arrives off the coast of Cork with a squadron of ships requesting to parley. 1612 February - A general pardon of all pirates who are subjects of James I is announced November - James I issues a pardon in Easton's name if he is to return the Concorde to its previous owners. 1613 Early in the year - The Duke of Savoy declares Nice and Villefranche to be free ports and offering asylum for pirates.Clive Malcolm Senior, An Investigation of the Activities and Importance of English Pirates, 1603-40 (University of Bristol, PhD thesis, 1973), p. 88-91 February 20 - Easton sails into Villefranche and meets with the Duke of Savoy, investing 100,000 crowns in return for annual income. 1614 June 4 - Mainwaring arrives in Newfoundland with a fleet of six ships. Late in the year - Louis XIII asks Simon Danseker to help negotiate with the pirates around Tunis. Unknown - Verney converts back to Catholicism to escape being a galley slave after being captured by a Sicilian corsair. 1615 February - Having agreed to Louis XIII's request, Danseker arrives in the Gulf of Tunis with two French ships. June - Mainwaring engages four Spanish men-of-war off the coast of Portugal and emerges successful. 1616 June 9 - Mainwaring is pardoned by James I. 1617 Walter Raleigh is pardoned by James I and sent on a second expedition in search of El Dorado.Burns, Alan. History of the British West Indies. Allen & Unwin. OCLC 557499386. 1618 March 20 - Mainwaring is knighted at Woking.Knights of England https://archive.org/details/knightsofengland02shawuoft/page/n175/mode/2up?view=theater 11 July 2022 Internet Archive May 23 - The Thirty Years' War starts, causing a rise in piracy. October 29 - Raleigh is executed. Unknown - Piet Pieterszoon Hein is pressed into service by the Republic of Venice. Unknown - Robert Walsingham is captured in Ireland by the English. Births 1615 After February - Simon Danseker 1618 Unknown - Pérez de Guzmán Deaths 1610 November 9 - George Somers December 8 - Peter Love 1613 April - Neil MacLeod 1615 September 6 - Francis Verney 1618 January - Lawrence Kemys June 6 - James Lancaster September 24 - William Parker October 29 - Walter Raleigh References Category:Piracy by year Piracy