Last Updated on 10 May 2026
- Henry Morgan appointed Knight Bachelor by King Charles II of England (1674)
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- The surviving pirates from Samuel Bellamy‘s Whydah Gally hanged in Boston (1717)
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- 22 of Stede Bonnet‘s crew hanged in Charleston (1718)
- George Somers dies in Bermuda (1610)
- Jean Lafitte charged with piracy (1812)
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- Stede Bonnet sentenced to death in Charles Town, South Carolina (1718)
- Louis Guittar hanged for piracy in London, England (1700)
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- Jack Rackham‘s ship captured near Negril Point, Jamaica (1720)
- Jack Ward captures the Rubi (1606), Jack Rackham and 8 others found guilty of piracy (1720), Zheng Yi Sao takes over her deceased husband Zheng Yi‘s Pirate Confederation (1807)
- Zymen Danseker returns to Marseilles (1609)
- Jack Rackham hanged in Port Royal, Jamaica (1720)
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- Edward England and Olivier Levasseur attack James Macrae in the East Indiaman Cassandra near Anjouan in the Comoros and force it aground (1720)
- Stede Bonnet marries Mary Allamby in Bridgetown, Barbados (1709)
- Petros Lantzas supports the Venetians in the successful siege of Margariti Castle, Greece (1571), Blackbeard killed in Ocracoke, North Carolina (1718)
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- Zheng Zhilong executed in Caishikou, Beijing, China (1661), Jack Rackham calls for vote to replace Charles Vane as captain of The Ranger (1718)
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- Joseph Bradish born in Sudbury, Massachusetts (1672), Benjamin Fletcher and Edward Coates charged with piracy (1698), Blackbeard captures French slave ship La Concorde and renames it Queen Anne’s Revenge (1717), Anne Bonny and Mary Read tried for piracy in Spanish Town, Jamaica (1720)
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- Lars Gathenhielm born in Onsala, Sweden (1689)
