1610s in piracy
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Events
1610
- 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
1612
1613
- 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
- 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
- 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
- June 9 - Mainwaring is pardoned by James I.[1]
1617
- Walter Raleigh is pardoned by James I and sent on a second expedition in search of El Dorado.[6]
1618
- 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
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
