• Source: 1610s in piracy

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

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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

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Late Spring - Easton arrives off the coast of Cork with a squadron of ships requesting to parley.




= 1612

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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

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Early in the year - The Duke of Savoy declares Nice and Villefranche to be free ports and offering asylum for pirates.
February 20 - Easton sails into Villefranche and meets with the Duke of Savoy, investing 100,000 crowns in return for annual income.




= 1614

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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

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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

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June 9 - Mainwaring is pardoned by James I.




= 1617

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Walter Raleigh is pardoned by James I and sent on a second expedition in search of El Dorado.




= 1618

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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

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After February - Simon Danseker




= 1618

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Unknown - Pérez de Guzmán




Deaths






= 1610

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November 9 - George Somers
December 8 - Peter Love




= 1613

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April - Neil MacLeod




= 1615

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September 6 - Francis Verney




= 1618

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January - Lawrence Kemys
June 6 - James Lancaster
September 24 - William Parker
October 29 - Walter Raleigh




References

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