This timeline of the history of piracy in the 1620s is a chronological list of key events involving pirates between 1620 and 1629.
Events
1620
Unknown - Jans Janszoon, also known as Murat Reis the Younger, a Dutch Barbary Pirate, converts to Islam.
1621
January 6 - Roger North is imprisoned in the Tower of London. July 18 - Roger North is released from the Tower of London. Late October - The 120-ton Jacob of Bristol was attacked and captured in the Strait of Gibraltar by Algerian corsairs. Mid-November - The Nicholas and the George Bonaventure, two small English merchantmen, were attacked and captured near the Strait of Gibraltar.
1622
December 26 - The Jacob is, again, attacked near the Strait of Gibraltar and sunk.
1625
Zheng Zhilong founds Shibazhi, an organization of Chinese pirates.Andrade, Tonio (2011). Lost colony : the untold story of China's first great victory over the West. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. .
1626
Unknown - Cornelius Jol joins the Dutch West India Company and becomes an admiral.Lane, Kris (2003). "Punishing the Sea Wolf: Corsairs and Cannibals in the Early Modern Caribbean". New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids. Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies. 77 (3): 202. . .
1627
During the 14 days between the 4th and the 19th of July - Murat Reis the Younger raided both Eastern Region and Vestmannaeyjar in Iceland. The raid on Vestmannaeyjar is called The Turkish abductions. Unknown - Murat Reis the Younger captures the island of Lundy in the Bristol Channel and holds it for five years.Konstam, Angus (2008). Piracy: The Complete History. Osprey Publishing. pp. 90–91. . Retrieved 2011-04-29.
1628
Unknown - Piet Pieterszoon Hein, with the help of Moses Cohen Henriques, capture the Spanish treasure fleet during a battle in the Bay of Mantanzas in Cuba during the Eighty Years' War. Unknown - Zheng Zhilong defeats the Ming Dynasty's fleet then begins working for them and is appointed major general.
Births
1620
Unknown - John Murphy Fitzgerald, also known as Juan Morfa
1628
Unknown - John Aylett
1629
Unknown - Daniel Johnson
Deaths
1620
October 10 - Sulayman Reis
1622
April 17 - Richard Hawkins Summer - Jack Ward Unknown - Jan Jacobsen
1627
February 22 - Olivier van Noort Unknown - Hendrick Jacobszoon Lucifer
1628
August 18 - Piers Griffith
1629
June 18 - Piet Pieterszoon Hein
References