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1690 - 1730The Golden Age of Piracy.
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May 1694Henry Every leads a mutiny and takes over the Charles II which he renames the Fancy.
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1695In London, Captain Kidd gathers a consortium of anonymous backers to fund a privateering expedition in the Indian Ocean.
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Sep 1695The English pirate Henry Every captures a treasure ship of the Mughal emperor, one of the richest prizes ever taken by a pirate in any era.
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1697 - 1698Captain Kidd commits several acts of piracy in the Indian Ocean.
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30 Oct 1697Captain Kidd kills one of his gunners, William Moore.
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30 Jan 1698Captain Kidd attacks and captures the merchant ship Quedah Merchant off the coast of India near Cochin.
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1701The British government permits colonies to try and hang pirates themselves rather than ship them to England.
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23 May 1701The pirate Captain Kidd is hanged at Wapping Old Stairs, London and his body is left to rot in public veiw by the River Thames.
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1713 - 1718The British pirate Benjamin Hornigold is active in the Caribbean and North American coast.
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1716 - 1720The English pirate Charles Vane is active in the Caribbean and east coast of America.
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1717 - 1718The pirates Edward Teach (aka Blackbeard) and Benjamin Hornigold sail in consort.
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1717Woodes Rogers is appointed the Governor of the Bahamas for the first time.
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1717 - 1720The pirate Edward England is active in the Caribbean, Eastern Atlantic, and Indian Ocean.
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Mar 1717 - Oct 1718The Barbadian pirate Stede Bonnet is active in the Caribbean and off the east coast of North America.
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Apr 1717The British pirate Samuel Bellamy dies when his ship Whydah is shipwrecked off Cape Cod.
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Oct 1718The two pirate crews of Blackbeard and Charles Vane enjoy a week-long party on Ocracoke Island, North Carolina.
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Nov 1718The pirate crew of Charles Vane votes to depose him. They select John Rackham ('Calico Jack') as their new captain.
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Nov 1718The Barbadian pirate Stede Bonnet is hanged in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Apr 1719Anne Bonny and John Rackham steal a ship in the Bahamas and embark on a life of piracy in the Caribbean.
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1720 - 1722The Welsh pirate Bartholomew Roberts ('Black Bart' Roberts) is active on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Nov 1720The pirates 'Calico Jack' (John Rackham), Anne Bonny, and Mary Read are apprehended in the Caribbean by the Jamaican authorities.
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28 Nov 1720Anne Bonny and Mary Read are tried for piracy in Jamaica and found guilty. Thier sentence of death by hanging is postpoend as both are pregnant.
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1721 - 1724The English pirate Edward Low is active in the Caribbean and eastern Atlantic.
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1721John Taylor and Olivier La Bouche capture the Portuguese treasure ship Nostra Senhora de Cabo at Réunion Island.
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Mar 1721The English pirate Charles Vane is hanged in Jamaica.
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1722The pirates Edward Low and George Lowther operate in tandem in the Caribbean.
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1722At Cape Coast Castle, Guinea in West Africa, 52 of Bartholomew Roberts’ crew are hanged.
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Jan 1722The Welsh pirate Bartholomew Roberts captures 11 ships of the West African coast.
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12 Feb 1722The Welsh pirate Bartholomew Roberts ('Black Bart' Roberts) is killed in action against the Royal Naval vessel HMS Swallow.