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The Pirates Hold - Piracy Timeline
Piracy Timeline
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I have tried to gather most of the important events of piracy throughout
history into a single time line. If you find that I have left something important
out (and as this is a first run, I'm sure I have), please feel free to send
me email using the link at the bottom of this page.
Key
Assault
on town or settlement
Pirates
capture ship
Pirate
executed
Year
Location
Event
1400-1300 BC
Mediterranean
Lukka sea raiders attack shipping from
the coast of Asia Minor
1300-1200BC
Mediterranean
Lukka sea raiders ally with Hittites
1220-1186BC
Eastern Mediterranean
Area controlled by the 'Sea Peoples'
1000-900BC
Mediterranean
Minoans overrun by Dorian Greeks using
Cretan cities as pirate bases
700-600BC
Mediterranean
Phoenician and Greek merchants attacked
by pirates
500-400BC
Mediterranean
Athenian navy attacks Greek pirate islands
Kithnos, Mikonos and the Sporades
200-100BC
Mediterranean
Carthaginian war distracts Rome, pirate
communities grow
168BC
Mediterranean
Rome annexes Illyria to curb piracy
67BC
Mediterranean
Anti-pirate campaign by Roman general
Pompey the Great eliminates Cilician sea raiders
220
Asia
End of the Han Dynasty, piracy flourishes
1200-1300
Europe
Reprisal contracts awarded to wronged
European mariners and creates privateering
1203
Mediterranean
Venetians fail to clear pirate bases
from Ionian Islands
1217
Europe
Eustace the Monk attacks shipping
1241
Europe
Hanseatic League formed by Baltic German
cities to suppress piracy
c.1300
Europe
League of the Cinque Ports formed protect
English Channel from pirates
1390
Mediterranean
French and English fleet sets out to
do battle with African based corsairs
1392
Europe
Port of Bergen attacked by German pirates,
Hanseatic League stunned
1573
Europe
Henzlein and 32 of his crew beheaded
for piracy
1400-1500
Mediterranean
Barbary pirates harass shipping
1400-1500
Asia
Ming Dynasty regains control of Chinese
waters
c.1470
Mediterranean
Greek
Barbarossa brothers are born
1500-1600
Asia
Increased trade between Asia and Europe
attract pirates
1520
Mediterranean
Italian Ulaj Ali, born as Giovanni Dionigi
1523
Atlantic
Jean Florin captures three Spanish ships
returning from the Caribbean loaded with gold and jewels
1527
Europe
Jean Florin captured and hanged as pirate
1530
Mediterranean
Knights of Malta are granted control
of Malta by Emporer Charles V
1532
England
John Hawkins is born
1534
Mediterranean
Albanian Murat Rais is born
1540
England
Francis Drake is born
1544
Caribbean
French Huguenot pirates capture and raze
Cartagena
c.1550
Spanish Main
Spanish treasure ships become prime targets
for piracy
1554
Caribbean
French Huguenot pirates led by Francios
le Clerk capture Santiago, Cuba
1555
Caribbean
French Huguenot pirates led by Jacques
de Sores capture Havana, Cuba
1565
Caribbean
Pedro de Menendez de Avilles, wipes out
French settlement in St.Augustine, Florida
c.1570-90
Caribbean
English attack Spanish shipping and colonies
1572
Caribbean
Francis Drake captures Nombre de Dios,
but is seriously wounded
1577
Caribbean
Queen Elizabeth provides financial backing
for pirates raids on Spanish
1579
Pacific
Francis Drake sacks Valparaiso, Chile
1579
Pacific
Francis Drake captures Cacafuego
treasure galleon
1586
Caribbean
Francis Drake captures Santo Domingo,
Hispaņola
1586
Caribbean
Francis Drake captures Cartagena, Venezuela
1586
Caribbean
Francis Drake captures St. Augustine,
Florida
1595
Caribbean
Francis Drake attacks Las Palmas, Canary
Islands but is repulsed
1595
Caribbean
Francis Drake attacks Puerto Rico but
is repulsed
1595
Caribbean
Francis Drake captures small towns in
Venezuela
1595
Caribbean
Francis Drake captures Nombre de Dios
again
1596
Caribbean
Francis Drake dies of fever
c.1600
Caribbean
Rum invented by the Spanish in Barbados
c.1620
Caribbean
French outlaws on Hispanola begin attacking
Spanish shipping, the birth of buccaneers
1623-38
Caribbean
Dutch capture about 500 Spanish and Portuguese
ships
1625
England
Christopher Myngs is born
1627
Atlantic
Jan Janssen captures Reykjavik,
Iceland and enslaves 400 or more Icelanders
c.1630
Caribbean
Spanish fail to drive buccaneers off
Tortuga Island
1641
Asia
Chih Lung accepts emporer's appointment
as admiral and ends pirate career
1642
Caribbean
William Jackson leads fleet that
captures Maracaibo in December
1643
Caribbean
William Jackson captures Santiago de
la Vega, Spanish capital of Jamaica, in April
1643
Caribbean
William Jackson captures Trujillo,
Honduras
c.1650
Mediterranean
Barbary pirates begin to decline
c.1653
Caribbean
French
Jean "L'Olonnais" Nau begins
to attack Spanish ships
1654
Caribbean
Dutch
Rock Braziliano arrives at
Port Royal, Jamaica
c.1655
Caribbean
Port Royal, Jamaica becomes a haven for
buccaneers
c.1655
Caribbean
Portuguese Bartolomeo arrives at Port
Royal, Jamaica
c.1658
Caribbean
Christopher Myngs burns Tolu, Columbia
c.1658
Caribbean
Christopher Myngs captures Cumano, Puerto
Caballos and Coro in Venezuela
1662
Caribbean
Henry Morgan receives privateering
commission
1662
Caribbean
Christopher Myngs captures Santiago,
Cuba
1663
Caribbean
Christopher Myngs captures San Francisco
in the Bay of Campeche
1666
Atlantic
Christopher Myngs killed by Dutch cannonball
during the Four Days' Battle
1667
Caribbean
Jean David Nau captures Maracaibo and Gibralter, Venezuela
1668
Caribbean
Henry Morgan captures Porto
Bello
1669
Caribbean
Henry Morgan captures Maracaibo
and Gibralter, Venezuela
c.1670
Caribbean
Jean David Nau captures Puerto Caballos
c.1670
Caribbean
Jean David Nau captures San Pedro
1670
Caribbean
Spain and England sign Treaty of Madrid
and buccaneering raids decline
1671
Caribbean
Henry Morgan captures Panama
1674
Caribbean
Henry Morgan is knighted
1678
Caribbean
Michel de Grammont captures Trujillo
1680
Caribbean
Thomas Paine and Jan Willems sack Rio
de la Hacha
1680
Caribbean
Michel de Grammont captures La Guaira,
Venezuela
1683
Caribbean
Michel de Grammont and Dutch Laurens
de Graff attack Vera Cruz
1685
Caribbean
Michel de Grammont and Dutch Laurens
de Graff capture and burn Campeche, Mexico
1688
Caribbean
Henry Morgan dies
1689
Caribbean
Jean Du Casse and Baron Jean de Pointis
capture Cartagena
1689
Caribbean
William Kidd first noticed as
member of buccaneer crew
c.1690-1730
Caribbean, Atlantic, Indian
The Golden Age of Piracy
1694
Atlantic
Henry
Every leads mutiny aboard privateer and begins pirate career
1695
Indian
Thomas Tew killed in battle
with Arab ship
c.1700
Caribbean, Atlantic, Indian
Widespread usage of 'Jolly Roger'
flags
1701
England
William Kidd executed
1714
Europe
End of the War of the Spanish Succession,
privateers switch over to piracy
c.1714
Caribbean
New Providence in the Bahamas becomes
a base for pirates
1716
Caribbean
Edward Teach arrives in New
Providence and joins the crew of
Benjamin Hornigold
1717
Caribbean
Stede
Bonnet turns to piracy
1717
Caribbean
Woodes Rogers, ex-privateer
made governor of New Providence
1717
New England
Samuel Bellamy and crew drown
after running ship aground
1718
New England
Blackbeard blockades Charleston,
South Carolina
1718
Caribbean
Charles
Vane escapes New Providence on arrival of Woodes Rogers
1718
Atlantic
Blackbeard dies in battle with
lieutenant Maynard near Ocracoke
1718
New England
Stede
Bonnet tried for piracy and hanged
1719
Guinea
Howell Davis dies in ambush on Principe
1720
Caribbean
Charles
Vane tried for piracy and hanged
1720
Caribbean
Jack Rackham,
Anne Bonny and
Mary Read tried for piracy, Rackham
is hanged
1720
Indian
Edward England captures English East Indiaman
1722
Atlantic
Bartholomew Roberts killed in
battle with English warship
1729
Indian
African Kanhoji Angria dies and is succeeded
by his sons Sumbhaji and Mannaji
1747
Europe
John Paul Jones is born
1775
Atlantic
Beginning of American Revolution, privateering
flourishes
c.1800
Mediterranean
Barbary pirates still operating, but
only in small groups
1803
Mediterranean, Atlantic, Caribbean
Napoleonic Wars begin, privateering flourishes
c.1807
Asia
Ching Yih forms pirate confederation
numbering over 600 ships and 150,000 men
1812
Atlantic
Beginning of the War of 1812, privateering
flourishes
c.1812
Caribbean
Jean and Pierre Laffite begin
operations near New Orleans
c.1820
Caribbean
U.S. and British navies all but eliminate
piracy in the Caribbean
1820
Caribbean
U.S. navy clears pirates from Galviston
Bay, they move to Cuba
1821
Caribbean
David Porter forms anti-pirate squadron
1827
Atlantic
Portuguese
Benito de Soto takes over slave
ship and turns to piracy
1833
Caribbean
Don Pedro Gibert captured by
the British and tried in the U.S.
1849
Asia
British navy eliminates Shap-'ng Tsai's
pirate fleet in Hongha river delta
c.1850
Asia
European navies eliminate organized piracy
in Far East and China
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