1630s in piracy
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This timeline of the history of piracy in the 1630s is a chronological list of key events involving pirates between 1630 and 1639.
Events
[edit]1631
[edit]- June 20 - Murat Reis the Younger executes the Sack of Baltimore where he captured 108 English planters and local Irish people. Almost all the villagers were put in irons and taken to a life of slavery in North Africa.[1]
- December - Frances Knight is captured by Algerian corsairs and forced into slavery.[2]
- Unknown - The Franco-Moroccan Treaty is signed between Louis XIII and Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik II, with contributions by Murat Reis the Younger.
1633
[edit]- August 12 - Cornelis Jol attacks Campeche, then owned by Spain.
- October 22 - Zheng Zhilong defeats a fleet of Dutch East India Company vessels in the Battle of Liaoluo Bay.
- Unknown - Samuel Axe, Abraham Blauvelt, and Sussex Cammock leave New Providence and sail for Honduras.[3]
1635
[edit]- Unknown - Murat Reis the Younger is captured near the Tunisian coast by the Knights of Malta then subsequently imprisoned and tortured.
1636
[edit]- February 29 - Jacob Collaert and Mathieu Romboutsen were captured by Johan Evertsen after a five-hour battle.
- Unknown - The Spanish attack New Providence, prompting Samuel Axe to return and defend it.[3]
1639
[edit]- Summer - Nathaniel Butler captures a Spanish frigate near the harbor of Trujillo and is later paid 16,000 pesos in ransom.[4]
- Unknown - William Jackson enters service under the Providence Island Company.
Births
[edit]1630
[edit]- February 27 - Roche Braziliano
- Unknown - Stenka Razin
1631
[edit]- Unknown - Isaac Rochussen
1632
[edit]- Unknown - Thomas Paine
1635
[edit]- Unknown - Nicholas van Hoorn
- Unknown - Henry Morgan
1637
[edit]- Unknown - Gustav Skytte
Deaths
[edit]1637
[edit]- August - Jacob Collaert
References
[edit]- ^ Ekin, Des (2006). The Stolen Village. OBrien. p. 177. ISBN 978-0-86278-955-8.
- ^ Tinniswood, Adrian (2010). Pirates of Barbary : corsairs, conquests, and captivity in the seventeenth-century Mediterranean. New York: Riverhead Books. p. 145. ISBN 978-1-59448-774-3.
- ^ a b Breverton, Terry (2018). A Gross of Pirates: From Alfhild the Shield Maiden to Afweyne the Big Mouth. Amberley Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-1-4456-8293-8.
- ^ Appleby, John C (2013). Women and English Piracy, 1540-1720: Partners and Victims of Crime. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. p. 26. ISBN 978-1-78327-018-7.
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