# 1600s in piracy

This timeline of the history of piracy in the 1600s is a chronological list of key events involving pirates between 1600 and 1609.

## Events
### 1600

* April – Baltazar de Cordes captures the island of Chiloé along with Dutch and native forces.
* December 14 – Olivier van Noort and the Spanish engage in a naval combat off Fortune Island, forcing van Noort to quit piracy in the Philippines.
* Unknown – James Lancaster is given control of the East India Company's first fleet.
* Unknown – Walter Raleigh is sworn into office as governor of Jersey, an island off the coast of Normandy.

### 1601

* January – Baltazar de Cordes' ship along with the surviving crew get captured and imprisoned in Tidore, a Portuguese colony, after battling the Spanish in Chiloé.
* February – William Parker captures Portobello from the Spanish and sacks it.
* April 22 – The East India Company's first fleet sets sail from Torbay under the command of James Lancaster.
* May – Michael Geare captures three ships in the West Indies with David Middleton while commanding the Archangel but loses contact with one of the ships.
* August 26 – Olivier van Noort returns to Rotterdam captaining the Mauritius after battling the Spanish, making him the first Dutch person to circumnavigate the globe.
* September 9 – James Lancaster's fleet arrives in Table Bay in southern Africa, ravaged with scurvy.

### 1602

* December – Jan de Bouff gets ambushed by six Dutch ships but manages to capture two of them with the help of three other Dunkirkers.
* Unknown – Richard Hawkins is released after being imprisoned by Spain.
* Unknown – Peter Easton is put in command of a convoy as a privateer, commissioned by Elizabeth I, to protect the Newfoundland fishing fleet.

### 1603

* January 24 – Michael Geare and Christopher Newport, working with the French, direct eight ships during a landing of privateers near Santiago de Cuba but are eventually forced to flee.
* July – Richard Hawkins receives a knighthood.
* July 20 – By this date, Walter Raleigh has been imprisoned in the Tower of London after being accused of devising the Main Plot against James I.
* October – James Lancaster receives a knighthood from James I after returning from his voyage with the East India Company.

### 1604

* August 28 – The Treaty of London is signed and ends the nineteen-year Anglo-Spanish War.
* Unknown – Jack Ward is allegedly pressed into service for the British and is placed in the Channel Fleet aboard the Lyon's Whelp.

### 1605

* Unknown – Many Dutch and English sailors, including Richard Bishop and Anthony Johnson, join Jack Ward's crew.

### 1606

* April 10 – William Parker becomes a founding member of the Virginia Company.
* Summer – Jack Ward captures a dhow in the Strait of Gibraltar allegedly carrying Catholic slaves.
* Early November – Jack Ward captures the English merchantman John Baptist captained under John Keye and renames it Little John.
* Unknown – Hendrik Brouwer sails to the Dutch East Indies for the Dutch East India Company.

### 1607

* January 28 - Jack Ward takes the Venetian Carminati, one of his richest hauls.
* Unknown - Zymen Danseker steals a ship in Marseilles and sails to Algiers.

### 1608

* Unknown - Frances Verney leaves his wife and stepmother/mother-in-law after losing a case to them, headed for Morocco.

### 1609

* November 17 - Zymen Danseker returns to Marseilles and is pardoned upon return.
* Unknown - James Harris is ambushed by the British while stopping in Baltimore.

## Births
### 1600

* February 1 – Johan Evertsen

### 1604

* April 16 – Zheng Zhilong

### 1607

* Unknown - Ben Robins

### 1609

* Unknown - Richard Ingle

## Deaths
### 1603

* Unknown – Grace O'Malley of natural causes, though the exact date and cause is disputed.

### 1609

* Unknown – Murat Reis the Elder, during a siege of Vlorë.