Last Updated on 12 May 2026
- Richard Coote commissioned as governor of Massachusetts Bay (1697)
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- Henry Mainwaring arrives in Newfoundland with a fleet of six ships (1614)
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- James Lancaster dies (1618)
- Major earthquake devastates Port Royal (1692)
- William Dampier court-martialled for cruelty (1702)
- Henry Mainwaring pardoned by James I (1616)
- Petros Lantzas completes successful siege against Sopot, Albania (1570), Blackbeard‘s Queen Anne’s Revenge runs aground on a sandbar near Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina (1718), Edward Low‘s two ships capture the HMS Greyhound near Long Island, New York (1723)
- Thomas Modyford, governor of Jamaica, issues proclamation against privateers, soon reversed (1664), Four Days’ Battle begins off the Flemish coast (1666)
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- George Lowther leads a mutiny, renames the ship Happy Delivery, and draws up articles of piracy (1721), Privateer Robert Manley captures the Robert and renames it Espion (1793)
- Four Days’ Battle ends near the English coast (1666), Thomas Mostyn‘s ship Fortune arrives at Adam Baldridge’s pirate trading post at Madagascar (1697)
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- Roberto Cofresí born in Puerto Rico (1791)
- Piet Pieterszoon Hein dies in battle (1629)
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- Jan Janszoon sacks Baltimore, Maryland (1631)
- Bartholomew Roberts captures 22 fishing vessels near Trepassey, Newfoundland (1720)
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- King James I of England sues for peace with Spain (1604)
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- Nicholas Clough captures the Camelion off Nevis (1682)
- Nicholas Clough drafts a pirate code for the crew of the Camelion (1683), John Quelch hanged in Boston, Massachusetts (1704)
