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1620s in piracy

Piracy timeline 1620 - 1629

Piracy timeline 1620 - 1629

This timeline of the history of piracy in the 1620s is a chronological list of key events involving pirates between 1620 and 1629.

Events

1620

  • Unknown - Jans Janszoon, also known as Murat Reis the Younger, a Dutch Barbary Pirate, converts to Islam.

1621

  • 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.
  • Mid-November - The Nicholas and the George Bonaventure, two small English merchantmen, were attacked and captured near the Strait of Gibraltar.

1622

  • December 26 - The Jacob is, again, attacked near the Strait of Gibraltar and sunk.

1625

  • Zheng Zhilong founds Shibazhi, an organization of Chinese pirates.

1626

  • Unknown - Cornelius Jol joins the Dutch West India Company and becomes an admiral.

1627

  • 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.
  • Unknown - Murat Reis the Younger captures the island of Lundy in the Bristol Channel and holds it for five years.

1628

  • 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.

Births

1620

  • Unknown - John Murphy Fitzgerald, also known as Juan Morfa

1628

  • Unknown - John Aylett

1629

  • Unknown - Daniel Johnson

Deaths

1620

  • October 10 - Sulayman Reis

1622

  • April 17 - Richard Hawkins
  • Summer - Jack Ward
  • Unknown - Jan Jacobsen

1627

  • February 22 - Olivier van Noort
  • Unknown - Hendrick Jacobszoon Lucifer

1628

  • August 18 - Piers Griffith

1629

  • June 18 - Piet Pieterszoon Hein

References

References

  1. Tinniswood, Adrian. (2010). "Pirates of Barbary: corsairs, conquests, and captivity in the seventeenth-century Mediterranean". Riverhead Books.
  2. [[Tonio Andrade. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. [[Angus Konstam. Konstam, Angus]] (2008). ''Piracy: The Complete History''. Osprey Publishing. pp. 90–91. {{ISBN. 978-1-84603-240-0. Retrieved 2011-04-29.
  5. Marley, David. (1994). "Pirates and privateers of the Americas". ABC-CLIO.
  6. Marley, David. (2010). "Pirates of the Americas". ABC-CLIO.
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