Last Updated on 12 May 2026
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- Stede Bonnet captures the Fortune near Delaware Bay (1718)
- William Kidd arrives in Boston, Massachusetts (1699)
- Stede Bonnet captures the Frances near Delaware Bay (1718)
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- Laurens de Graaf captures Campeche (1685), William Kidd arrested in Boston (1699)
- Olivier Levasseur hanged for piracy in Saint-Denis, Réunion (1730)
- Thomas Pound sails a sloop to Lovell’s Island, where he forms a pirate crew (1689)
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- Henry Morgan sacks Porto Bello, Panama (1668), Miguel Enríquez recognized as Captain of the Sea and War (1710)
- James Kelly hanged for piracy (1701)
- Albert Hicks hanged for piracy on Bedloe’s Island (Liberty Island), New York (1860)
- Sayyida al Hurra dies in Chefchaouen, Morocco (1561)
- Jacques de Sores attacks the Portuguese merchant galleon São Tiago off the Canary Islands (1570), Woodes Rogers dies in Nassau (1732)
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- Roger North released from the Tower of London (1621), Emanuel Wynn‘s pirate ship engages and escapes HMS Poole in the Cape Verde islands (1700)
- Charles Harris hanged for piracy in Newport, Rhode Island (1723)
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- Walter Kennedy hanged for piracy in London (1721)
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- John James ransacks the sloop Roanoke Merchant (1699), Woodes Rogers arrives in Nassau as governor of the Bahama Islands (1718)
- Anne Dieu-Le-Veut and Laurens de Graaf married (1693)
- Stede Bonnet christened at Christ Church, Barbados (1688), Charles Vane captures the John and Elizabeth (1718)
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- Fleet of 11 Spanish treasure ships wrecks in a hurricane off the Florida coast (1715)
