Last Updated on 10 May 2026

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  5. Blackbeard captures the sloop Margaret near Crab Island near Puerto Rico, ransacks it, and lets it go (1717)
  6. Christopher Columbus discovers and names the island of Tortuga (1492)
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  8. Peter Love betrayed by a confederate, tried for piracy, and executed in Scotland (1610)
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  10. Stede Bonnet hanged in Charles Town, South Carolina (1718)
  11. William Kidd commissioned to attack pirates and the French (1695)
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  13. Thomas Jones dies (1713)
  14. Olivier van Noort fights the Spanish off Fortune Island (1600)
  15. Francis Drake begins circumnavigation of the globe (1577), Alexander Dalzeel hanged for piracy in London, England (1715), Pirates of the Caribbean ride opens at Disney World (1973)
  16. Charles Vane captures the sloop Pearl in the Bay of Honduras (1718)
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  22. Woodes Rogers captures the Desengaño off Cabo San Lucas (1709)
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  25. Woodes Rogers tries to take the Begoña but suffers heavy losses (1709)
  26. The Jacob attacked and sunk near the Strait of Gibraltar (1622), Jack Rackham born in Bristol?, England (1682)
  27. Henry Jennings and Charles Vane attack Spanish salvage teams recovering the remains of the Spanish 1715 Treasure Fleet on the east coast of Florida, plundering 350,000 pieces of eight (1715)
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  29. Anne Bonny buried in Spanish Town, Jamaica (1733)
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