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.[1]
- 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.[2]
- Unknown – James Lancaster is given control of the East India Company's first fleet.[3]
- Unknown – Walter Raleigh is sworn into office as governor of Jersey, an island off the coast of Normandy.[4]
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.[1]
- February – William Parker captures Portobello from the Spanish and sacks it.[5]
- April 22 – The East India Company's first fleet sets sail from Torbay under the command of James Lancaster.[6]
- 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.[7]
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.[10]
- Unknown – Peter Easton is put in command of a convoy as a privateer, commissioned by Elizabeth I, to protect the Newfoundland fishing fleet.[11]
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.[12]
- July – Richard Hawkins receives a knighthood.[13]
- 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.[14]
- October – James Lancaster receives a knighthood from James I after returning from his voyage with the East India Company.[3]
1604
- August 28 – The Treaty of London is signed and ends the nineteen-year Anglo-Spanish War.[15]
- Unknown – Jack Ward is allegedly pressed into service for the British and is placed in the Channel Fleet aboard the Lyon's Whelp.[16]
1605
- Unknown – Many Dutch and English sailors, including Richard Bishop and Anthony Johnson, join Jack Ward's crew.[16]
1606
- April 10 – William Parker becomes a founding member of the Virginia Company.[17]
- 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.[16]
- 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.[16]
- Unknown - Zymen Danseker steals a ship in Marseilles and sails to Algiers.[16]
1608
- Unknown - Frances Verney leaves his wife and stepmother/mother-in-law after losing a case to them, headed for Morocco.[16]
1609
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.[18]
1609
- Unknown – Murat Reis the Elder, during a siege of Vlorë.
See also
References
- 1 2 Lane, Kris E. (1998). Pillaging the empire : piracy in the Americas, 1500–1750. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 0-7656-0256-3. OCLC 37903443. Archived from the original on 2022-05-20. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
- ↑ Transpacific engagements : trade, translation, and visual culture of entangled empires (1565–1898). Florina H. Capistrano-Baker, Meha Priyadarshini. Makati City, Philippines. 2020. ISBN 978-621-8028-25-8. OCLC 1296690938.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link) - 1 2 Markham, Clements R. (2017-05-15). Markham, Clements R (ed.). The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, Kt., to the East Indies. Hakluyt Society. doi:10.4324/9781315551524. ISBN 978-1-315-55152-4. Archived from the original on 2022-07-10. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
- ↑ Latham, Agnes MC (25 October 2021). "Sir Walter Raleigh". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 10 June 2022. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
- ↑ Earle, Peter (2013). The sack of panama : captain morgan and the battle for the caribbean. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-1-4299-5489-1. OCLC 865109573. Archived from the original on 2022-07-10. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
- ↑ Raikes, Charles (1867). The Englishman of India. London.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ Purchas, Samuel,?-1626 (2014). Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his pilgrimes : contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others. Volume 16. Richard,?-1616 Hakluyt. Cambridge. pp. 298–301. ISBN 978-1-316-05069-9. OCLC 911057318. Archived from the original on 2022-07-10. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ Quanchi, Max (2005). Historical dictionary of the discovery and exploration of the Pacific islands. John Robson. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-8108-6528-0. OCLC 665817422. Archived from the original on 2022-07-10. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
- ↑ Griffin, JP (April 2013). "James Lancaster's Prevention of Scurvy". Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 106 (4): 118. doi:10.1177/0141076813478788. PMC 3618161. PMID 23564889.
- ↑ Chisholm, Hugh (1911). Hawkins, Sir Richard (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 99.
- ↑ McCarthy, Matthew Gerard (1 June 2017). "No Colony for Old Men: Peter Easton in Conception Bay". Conception Bay Museum. Archived from the original on 22 April 2021. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
- ↑ Marley, David (2005). Historic cities of the Americas : an illustrated encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, California. p. 150. ISBN 978-1-57607-574-6. OCLC 62211801. Archived from the original on 2022-07-10. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ The House of Commons, 1604–1629. A. D. Thrush, John P. Ferris. Cambridge: Published for the History of Parliament Trust by Cambridge University Press. 2010. ISBN 978-1-107-00225-8. OCLC 668195704. Archived from the original on 2022-07-10. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ↑ Wolfe, Brendan (22 October 2021). "Sir Walter Raleigh (ca. 1552–1618)". Encyclopedia Virginia. Archived from the original on 24 June 2022. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
- ↑ European treaties bearing on the history of the United States and its dependencies. Frances G. Davenport, Charles Oscar, or 1869-1944 Paullin. Clark, N.J.: Lawbook Exchange. 2004. p. 246. ISBN 1-58477-422-3. OCLC 53972141. Archived from the original on 2022-07-10. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Tinniswood, Adrian (2010). Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean. Penguin. ISBN 9781101445310.
- ↑ The English Crown (7 December 2022). "First Charter of Virginia (1606)". Encyclopedia Virginia. Archived from the original on 9 July 2022. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
- ↑ Mark, Joshua J (1 November 2021). "Grace O'Malley". World History Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 16 April 2022. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
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