This timeline of the history of piracy in the 1630s is a chronological list of key events involving pirates between 1630 and 1639.
Events 1631
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.Ekin, Des (2006). The Stolen Village. OBrien. p. 177. . December - Frances Knight is captured by Algerian corsairs and forced into slavery. 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
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.
1635
Unknown - Murat Reis the Younger is captured near the Tunisian coast by the Knights of Malta then subsequently imprisoned and tortured.
1636
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.
1639
Summer - Nathaniel Butler captures a Spanish frigate near the harbor of Trujillo and is later paid 16,000 pesos in ransom. Unknown - William Jackson enters service under the Providence Island Company.
Births
1630
February 27 - Roche Braziliano Unknown - Stenka Razin
1631
Unknown - Isaac Rochussen
1632
Unknown - Thomas Paine
1635
Unknown - Nicholas van Hoorn Unknown - Henry Morgan
1637
Unknown - Gustav Skytte
Deaths
1637
August - Jacob Collaert
References