1600s in piracy
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Events
1600
- April â Baltazar de Cordes captures the island of Chiloé along with Dutch and native forces.[1]
- December 14 â 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 â James Lancaster is given control of the East India Company's first fleet.[3]
- Unknown â Walter Raleigh is sworn into office as governor of Jersey, an island off the coast of Normandy.[4]
1601
- January â 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 â William Parker captures Portobello from the Spanish and sacks it.[5]
- April 22 â The East India Company's first fleet sets sail from Torbay under the command of James Lancaster.[6]
- May â 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]
- August 26 â Olivier van Noort returns to Rotterdam captaining the Mauritius after battling the Spanish, making him the first Dutch person to circumnavigate the globe.[8]
- September 9 â James Lancaster's fleet arrives in Table Bay in southern Africa, ravaged with scurvy.[9]
1602
- December â Jan de Bouff gets ambushed by six Dutch ships but manages to capture two of them with the help of three other Dunkirkers.
- Unknown â Richard Hawkins is released after being imprisoned by Spain.[10]
- Unknown â 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 â 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 â Richard Hawkins receives a knighthood.[13]
- July 20 â 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 â James Lancaster receives a knighthood from James I after returning from his voyage with the East India Company.[3]
1604
- August 28 â The Treaty of London is signed and ends the nineteen-year Anglo-Spanish War.[15]
- Unknown â 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 â Many Dutch and English sailors, including Richard Bishop and Anthony Johnson, join Jack Ward's crew.[16]
1606
- April 10 â William Parker becomes a founding member of the Virginia Company.[17]
- Summer â Jack Ward captures a dhow in the Strait of Gibraltar allegedly carrying Catholic slaves.
- Early November â Jack Ward captures the English merchantman John Baptist captained under John Keye and renames it Little John.[16]
- Unknown â 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 â Johan Evertsen
1604
- April 16 â Zheng Zhilong
1607
- Unknown - Ben Robins
1609
- Unknown - Richard Ingle
Deaths
1603
- Unknown â Grace O'Malley of natural causes, though the exact date and cause is disputed.[18]
1609
- Unknown â Murat Reis the Elder, during a siege of Vlorë.