1722 in piracy

Caribbean Sea

• March - English ship Greyhound Galley seized and robbed by Spaniards.^[1]
• March–April - Matthew Luke, an Italian guarda costa privateer, plunders four British vessels, killing all aboard.^[2]
• May - Luke attacks English war vessel HMS Lanceston, mistaking it for a merchant ship. He and his crew are captured and brought to Jamaica, where all but seven of his crew are hanged.^[1]
• August - Under the command of Thomas Anstis,^[2] John Fenn's ship, the Morning Star, wrecks on Grand Cayman.^[3]

West Africa

• February 5 - Bartholomew Roberts' consort vessel, Ranger, captured by Chaloner Ogle.^[4]
• February 10 - Roberts' ship, Royal Fortune, is overtaken and defeated by Ogle in HMS Swallow. Roberts is killed and his crew is captured.^[5]
• March 28 - 52 of Roberts' pirates are sentenced to death at Cape Coast Castle.

Bartholomew Roberts' Crew

In total, 118 pirates in Roberts' crew die after being defeated by Chaloner Ogle.^[2]

14 crew members are killed on board Roberts' vessels during the battle with Ogle:^[6]

• February 5 - 10 killed on vessel Ranger
• February 10 - 3 killed on vessel Royal Fortune
• February 10 - Bartholomew Roberts, who reportedly robbed 470 vessels in his career, killed in action off Cape López.^[7]

104 of Roberts' pirates are executed or killed by the Vice Admiralty Court:^[8]

• 52 crew members, including Christopher Moody, Israel Hynde (maybe Israel Hands), are executed by hanging on April 3–20 at Cape Coast Castle.^[6]

• 15 crew members die of wounds en route to Cape Coast Castle.
• 4 crew members die in the castle dungeons while awaiting trial and/or hanging.
• 13 of 17 members sentenced to Marshalsea Prison die during the passage to London.
• All 20 members sentenced to 7 years of labor in the Cape Coast mines die before finishing their sentence.
• 1 of 2 members with respited guilty sentences dies (unknown if by execution or natural causes).^[8]