1620s in piracy
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Events
1620
- Unknown - Jans Janszoon, also known as Murat Reis the Younger, a Dutch Barbary Pirate, converts to Islam.[1]
1621
- January 6 - Roger North is imprisoned in the Tower of London.
- July 18 - Roger North is released from the Tower of London.
- Late October - The 120-ton Jacob of Bristol was attacked and captured in the Strait of Gibraltar by Algerian corsairs.[1]
- Mid-November - The Nicholas and the George Bonaventure, two small English merchantmen, were attacked and captured near the Strait of Gibraltar.[1]
1622
- December 26 - The Jacob is, again, attacked near the Strait of Gibraltar and sunk.[1]
1625
- Zheng Zhilong founds Shibazhi, an organization of Chinese pirates.[2]
1626
- Unknown - Cornelius Jol joins the Dutch West India Company and becomes an admiral.[3]
1627
- During the 14 days between the 4th and the 19th of July - Murat Reis the Younger raided both Eastern Region and Vestmannaeyjar in Iceland. The raid on Vestmannaeyjar is called The Turkish abductions.[1]
- Unknown - Murat Reis the Younger captures the island of Lundy in the Bristol Channel and holds it for five years.[4]
1628
- Unknown - Piet Pieterszoon Hein, with the help of Moses Cohen Henriques, capture the Spanish treasure fleet during a battle in the Bay of Mantanzas in Cuba during the Eighty Years' War.
- Unknown - Zheng Zhilong defeats the Ming Dynasty's fleet then begins working for them and is appointed major general.[2]
Births
1620
- Unknown - John Murphy Fitzgerald, also known as Juan Morfa[5]
1628
- Unknown - John Aylett[6]
1629
- Unknown - Daniel Johnson
Deaths
1620
- October 10 - Sulayman Reis
1622
- April 17 - Richard Hawkins
- Summer - Jack Ward
- Unknown - Jan Jacobsen
1627
- February 22 - Olivier van Noort
- Unknown - Hendrick Jacobszoon Lucifer
1628
- August 18 - Piers Griffith
1629
- June 18 - Piet Pieterszoon Hein