Last Updated on 12 May 2026

  1. Robert Searle and Christopher Myngs sail from Port Royal to attack Santiago (1662)
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  4. Amaro Pargo dies at home (1747)
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  10. Sulayman Reis dies in battle (1620)
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  12. Blackbeard captures a Captain Codd and his vessel off the Delaware capes (1717)
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  14. Woodes Rogers returns to England after a round-the-world privateering expedition against Spain (1711)
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  16. Walter Kennedy in the John and Martha attacks and loots the Greyhound Galley (1716)
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  18. Robert Searle sacks Santiago de Cuba (1662)
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  22. Zheng Zhilong defeats Dutch East India Company vessels in the Battle of Liaoluo Bay, Fujian, China (1633), Benjamin Hornigold and Blackbeard pillage the sloops Robert (of Philadelphia) and Good Intent (of Dublin) (1717), Woodes Rogers appointed governor of Nassau for 2nd term (1728)
  23. Charles Vane sacks a brigantine and a sloop off Long Island (1718)
  24. Stede Bonnet escapes prison in Charles Town, South Carolina (1718), Amaro Pargo granted letter of marque from Felipe V (1719)
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  26. Pirate vessel Le Trompeuse attacks the British frigate HMS Bauden (1686)
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  29. Walter Raleigh executed at the Palace of Westminster (1618), Bartholomew Sharp dies in prison in St. Thomas, Danish West Indies (1702)
  30. William Kidd kills a crewman for insubordination (1697), Miguel Enríquez takes refuge in the Convent of Santo Tomás (1735)
  31. Cornelis Jol dies of malaria on São Tomé (1641)

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