Last Updated on 10 May 2026
- William Kidd arrives in Madagascar (1698), Benjamin Hornigold captures a large armed sloop, the Bennet (1717), Thomas Cocklyn captures The Bird Galley in the mouth of the Rokel River in Sierra Leone (1719)
- Lars Gathenhielm marries Ingela Olofsdotter (1711)
- William Dampier‘s marooned crew rescued (1701)
- Francis Drake knighted by Queen Elizabeth (1581), Thomas Green and 4 of his crew hanged at Leith (1705), Benjamin Hornigold captures the sloop Revenge carrying a load of Spanish gold (1717)
- Blackbeard captures the sloop Land of Promise (1718)
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- Blackbeard‘s fleet captures and burns the Protestant Caesar (1718)
- Christopher Wormeley officially banished as governor of Tortuga (1635), George Spurre & Edward Neville capture two Spanish ships for their assault on Campeche (1678)
- Treaty of Utrecht signed, ending the War of Spanish Succession (1713)
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- John Coxen leads failed raid on Santa Maria, Panama (1680)
- Zheng Zhilong born in Fujian, China (1604)
- Richard Hawkins dies in London (1622)
- Thomas Anstis deserts Bartholomew Roberts to start his own pirate career (1721), Capture of the Bahamas (1783)
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- The East India Company’s first fleet sets sail from Torbay (1601)
- John Coxen captures two Spanish warships near Panama (1680)
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- Lars Gathenhielm dies in Gothenburg, Sweden (1718), Anne Bonny dies in Charles Town, South Carolina (1782)
- Samuel Bellamy dies when his ship, the Whydah, sinks in Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1717)
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- Mary Read dies of typhus in prison (1721)
- Ingela Gathenhielm dies in Gothenburg, Sweden (1729)
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