This timeline of the history of piracy in the 1610s is a chronological list of key events involving pirates between 1610 and 1619.
Events
1610 By December - Word has reached England of Francis Verney and Jack Ward's conversion to Islam. December 8 - The English pirate Peter Love, who had set up base in the Outer Hebrides, was betrayed by a confederate, tried for piracy, and executed in Scotland. Unknown - Hendrik Brouwer sails for the Dutch East Indies commanding three ships for the Dutch East India Company. Unknown - Henry Mainwaring is commissioned to capture Peter Easton. Unknown - Easton blockades the Bristol Channel.
1611
Late Spring - Easton arrives off the coast of Cork with a squadron of ships requesting to parley.
1612
February - A general pardon of all pirates who are subjects of James I is announced November - James I issues a pardon in Easton's name if he is to return the Concorde to its previous owners.
1613
Early in the year - The Duke of Savoy declares Nice and Villefranche to be free ports and offering asylum for pirates.Clive Malcolm Senior, An Investigation of the Activities and Importance of English Pirates, 1603-40 (University of Bristol, PhD thesis, 1973), p. 88-91 February 20 - Easton sails into Villefranche and meets with the Duke of Savoy, investing 100,000 crowns in return for annual income.
1614
June 4 - Mainwaring arrives in Newfoundland with a fleet of six ships. Late in the year - Louis XIII asks Simon Danseker to help negotiate with the pirates around Tunis. Unknown - Verney converts back to Catholicism to escape being a galley slave after being captured by a Sicilian corsair.
1615
February - Having agreed to Louis XIII's request, Danseker arrives in the Gulf of Tunis with two French ships. June - Mainwaring engages four Spanish men-of-war off the coast of Portugal and emerges successful.
1616
June 9 - Mainwaring is pardoned by James I.
1617
Walter Raleigh is pardoned by James I and sent on a second expedition in search of El Dorado.Burns, Alan. History of the British West Indies. Allen & Unwin. OCLC 557499386.
1618
March 20 - Mainwaring is knighted at Woking. May 23 - The Thirty Years' War starts, causing a rise in piracy. October 29 - Raleigh is executed. Unknown - Piet Pieterszoon Hein is pressed into service by the Republic of Venice. Unknown - Robert Walsingham is captured in Ireland by the English.
Births
1615
After February - Simon Danseker
1618
Unknown - Pérez de Guzmán
Deaths
1610
November 9 - George Somers December 8 - Peter Love
1613
April - Neil MacLeod
1615
September 6 - Francis Verney
1618
January - Lawrence Kemys June 6 - James Lancaster September 24 - William Parker October 29 - Walter Raleigh
References