Last Updated on 10 May 2026

  1. Robert Culliford arrested and taken to the Marshalsea prison in Southwark, England (1700)
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  6. William Dampier‘s HMS Roebuck arrives at Shark Bay, Australia (1699)
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  8. Thomas Pound captures a small fishing boat (1689)
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  12. Cornelis Jol attacks Campeche (1633), Edward Low marries Eliza Marble in Boston, Massachusetts (1714)
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  15. Yusuf ibn al-Hasan captures Mombasa (1631), Truce of Ratisbon signed (1684)
  16. Thomas Pound captures the sloop Godspeed near Race Point, Massachusetts (1689)
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  18. Piers Griffith dies in Wales (1628), Edict issued offering Five Hundred Pounds Sterling for the capture of Henry Every (1696)
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  20. Henry Every born in Devon, England (1659)
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  22. Jack Rackham and Anne Bonney steal the sloop William (1720)
  23. Edward Davis joins privateering expedition (1683)
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  25. Charles Swan sails up the coast of Mexico to sack Santa Pecaque (1685), Henry Morgan dies in Port Maria, Jamaica (1688)
  26. Jeanne de Clisson charged with bribery and offence against the crown (1343), Olivier van Noort returns to Rotterdam captaining the Mauritius, becoming the first Dutch person to circumnavigate the globe (1601), Henry Morgan buried in Port Royal (1688)
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  28. The Treaty of London signed, ending the Anglo-Spanish War (1604)
  29. Henry Every discharged from Royal Navy (1689)
  30. Charles Vane takes and ransacks the ships Neptune and Emperor off the Carolinas (1718)
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