1620s in piracy
This timeline of the history of piracy in the 1620s is a chronological list of key events involving pirates between 1620 and 1629.
Events[edit]
1620[edit]
- Unknown - Jans Janszoon, also known as Murat Reis the Younger, a Dutch Barbary Pirate, converts to Islam.[1]
1621[edit]
- 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.[1]
- Mid-November - The Nicholas and the George Bonaventure, two small English merchantmen, were attacked and captured near the Strait of Gibraltar.[1]
1622[edit]
- December 26 - The Jacob is, again, attacked near the Strait of Gibraltar and sunk.[1]
1625[edit]
- Zheng Zhilong founds Shibazhi, an organization of Chinese pirates.[2]
1626[edit]
- Unknown - Cornelius Jol joins the Dutch West India Company and becomes an admiral.[3]
1627[edit]
- 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.[1]
- Unknown - Murat Reis the Younger captures the island of Lundy in the Bristol Channel and holds it for five years.[4]
1628[edit]
- 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.[2]
Births[edit]
1620[edit]
- Unknown - John Murphy Fitzgerald, also known as Juan Morfa[5]
1628[edit]
- Unknown - John Aylett[6]
1629[edit]
- Unknown - Daniel Johnson
Deaths[edit]
1620[edit]
- October 10 - Sulayman Reis
1622[edit]
- April 17 - Richard Hawkins
- Summer - Jack Ward
- Unknown - Jan Jacobsen
1627[edit]
- February 22 - Olivier van Noort
- Unknown - Hendrick Jacobszoon Lucifer
1628[edit]
- August 18 - Piers Griffith
1629[edit]
- June 18 - Piet Pieterszoon Hein
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e Tinniswood, Adrian (2010). Pirates of Barbary: corsairs, conquests, and captivity in the seventeenth-century Mediterranean. New York: Riverhead Books. ISBN 978-1-59448-774-3.
- ^ a b Andrade, Tonio (2011). Lost colony : the untold story of China's first great victory over the West. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-14455-9.
- ^ 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. doi:10.1163/13822373-90002522. JSTOR 41850261.
- ^ Konstam, Angus (2008). Piracy: The Complete History. Osprey Publishing. pp. 90–91. ISBN 978-1-84603-240-0. Retrieved 2011-04-29.
- ^ Marley, David (1994). Pirates and privateers of the Americas (2nd ed.). Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. p. 275.
- ^ Marley, David (2010). Pirates of the Americas. Vol. 1. ABC-CLIO. p. 19. ISBN 978-1-59884-201-2.