1600s in piracy explained

This timeline of the history of piracy in the 1600s is a chronological list of key events involving pirates between 1600 and 1609.

Events

1600

• April – Baltazar de Cordes captures the island of Chiloé along with Dutch and native forces.^[1]
• December 14 – 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 – James Lancaster is given control of the East India Company's first fleet.^[3]
• Unknown – Walter Raleigh is sworn into office as governor of Jersey, an island off the coast of Normandy.^[4]

1601

• January – Baltazar de Cordes' ship along with the surviving crew get captured and imprisoned in Tidore, a Portuguese colony, after battling the Spanish in Chiloé.
• February – William Parker captures Portobello from the Spanish and sacks it.^[5]
• April 22 – The East India Company's first fleet sets sail from Torbay under the command of James Lancaster.^[6]
• May – 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 – 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 – James Lancaster's fleet arrives in Table Bay in southern Africa, ravaged with scurvy.^[9]

1602

• December – Jan de Bouff gets ambushed by six Dutch ships but manages to capture two of them with the help of three other Dunkirkers.
• Unknown – Richard Hawkins is released after being imprisoned by Spain.^[10]
• Unknown – 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 – 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 – Richard Hawkins receives a knighthood.^[13]
• July 20 – 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 – James Lancaster receives a knighthood from James I after returning from his voyage with the East India Company.

1604

• August 28 – The Treaty of London is signed and ends the nineteen-year Anglo-Spanish War.^[15]
• Unknown – 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 – Many Dutch and English sailors, including Richard Bishop and Anthony Johnson, join Jack Ward's crew.

1606

• April 10 – William Parker becomes a founding member of the Virginia Company.^[17]
• Summer – Jack Ward captures a dhow in the Strait of Gibraltar allegedly carrying Catholic slaves.
• Early November – Jack Ward captures the English merchantman John Baptist captained under John Keye and renames it Little John.
• Unknown – 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.
• Unknown - Zymen Danseker steals a ship in Marseilles and sails to Algiers.

1608

• Unknown - Frances Verney leaves his wife and stepmother/mother-in-law after losing a case to them, headed for Morocco.

1609

• November 17 - Zymen Danseker returns to Marseilles and is pardoned upon return.
• Unknown - James Harris is ambushed by the British while stopping in Baltimore.

Births

1600

• February 1 – Johan Evertsen

1604

• April 16 – Zheng Zhilong

1607

• Unknown - Ben Robins

1609

• Unknown - Richard Ingle

Deaths

1603

• Unknown – Grace O'Malley of natural causes, though the exact date and cause is disputed.^[18]

1609

• Unknown – Murat Reis the Elder, during a siege of Vlorë.

See also

• Timeline of piracy
• 1610s in piracy

Notes and References

1. Book: Lane, Kris E. . Pillaging the empire : piracy in the Americas, 1500–1750 . 1998 . M.E. Sharpe . 0-7656-0256-3 . Armonk, N.Y. . 37903443 .
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3. Book: Markham, Clements R. . Clements R . Markham . The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, Kt., to the East Indies . 2017-05-15 . Hakluyt Society . 10.4324/9781315551524 . 978-1-315-55152-4 . 2022-07-10 . 2022-07-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220710201844/https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781315551524/voyages-sir-james-lancaster-kt-east-indies-clements-markham . live .
4. Web site: Latham . Agnes MC . 25 October 2021 . Sir Walter Raleigh . live . 10 July 2022 . Encyclopedia Britannica . 10 June 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220610021748/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Raleigh-English-explorer .
5. Book: Earle, Peter . The sack of panama : captain morgan and the battle for the caribbean . 2013 . St. Martin's Press . 978-1-4299-5489-1 . New York . 865109573 .
6. Book: Raikes, Charles . The Englishman of India . 1867 . London . en . Longmans, Green, and Co. . 18.
7. Book: Purchas, Samuel . Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his pilgrimes : contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others . 16 . 2014 . 978-1-316-05069-9 . Cambridge . 298–301 . en . 911057318 . Cambridge University Press.
8. Book: Quanchi, Max . Historical dictionary of the discovery and exploration of the Pacific islands . 2005 . Scarecrow Press . John Robson . 978-0-8108-6528-0 . Lanham, Md. . 59 . en . 665817422 .
9. Griffin . JP . April 2013 . James Lancaster's Prevention of Scurvy . Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine . 106 . 4 . 118 . 10.1177/0141076813478788 . 23564889 . 3618161 .
10. Book: Chisholm, Hugh . Hawkins, Sir Richard . Cambridge University Press . 1911 . 11th . 99 . en.
11. Web site: McCarthy . Matthew Gerard . 1 June 2017 . No Colony for Old Men: Peter Easton in Conception Bay . live . 10 July 2022 . Conception Bay Museum . en . 22 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210422175801/https://conceptionbaymuseum.com/2017/06/01/no-colony-for-old-men-peter-easton-in-conception-bay/ .
12. Book: Marley, David . Historic cities of the Americas : an illustrated encyclopedia . 2005 . 978-1-57607-574-6 . Santa Barbara, California . 150 . en . 62211801 . ABC-CLIO .
13. Book: The House of Commons, 1604–1629 . 2010 . Published for the History of Parliament Trust by Cambridge University Press . A. D. Thrush . John P. Ferris . 978-1-107-00225-8 . Cambridge . 668195704.
14. Web site: Wolfe . Brendan . 22 October 2021 . Sir Walter Raleigh (ca. 1552–1618) . live . 10 July 2022 . Encyclopedia Virginia . 24 June 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220624063917/https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/raleigh-sir-walter-ca-1552-1618/ .
15. Book: European treaties bearing on the history of the United States and its dependencies . 2004 . Lawbook Exchange . Frances G. Davenport . Charles Oscar, or 1869-1944 Paullin . 1-58477-422-3 . Clark, N.J. . 246 . en . 53972141 .
16. Book: Tinniswood, Adrian . Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean . Penguin . 2010 . 9781101445310 . en.
17. Web site: The English Crown . 7 December 2022 . First Charter of Virginia (1606) . live . 10 July 2022 . Encyclopedia Virginia . 9 July 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220709053545/https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/first-charter-of-virginia-1606/ .
18. Web site: Mark . Joshua J . 1 November 2021 . Grace O'Malley . live . 10 July 2022 . World History Encyclopedia . 16 April 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220416094331/https://www.worldhistory.org/Grace_O%27Malley/ .