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The oldest known literary mention of a "Golden Age" of piracy is from 1894, when the English journalist George Powell wrote about "What appears to have been the golden age of piracy up to the last decade of the 17th century." [1] Powell uses the phrase while reviewing Charles Leslie's A New and Exact History of Jamaica, then over 150 years old ...
This timeline of the history of piracy in the 1680s is a chronological list of key events involving pirates between 1680 and 1689. Events ... Texas). Laurens de Graff ...
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. [2] Unknown – James Lancaster is given control of the East India Company's first fleet. [3] Unknown – Walter Raleigh is sworn into office as governor of Jersey, an island off the coast of ...
This is a timeline of the history of piracy.. Piracy in ancient history; Piracy in post-classical history; 1560s; 1570s; 1580s; 1590s; 1600s; 1610s; 1620s; 1630s ...
Piracy usually excludes crimes committed by the perpetrator on their own vessel (e.g. theft), as well as privateering, which implies authorization by a state government. Piracy or pirating is the name of a specific crime under customary international law and also the name of a number of crimes under the municipal law of a number of states.
This timeline of the history of piracy in the 1660s is a chronological list of key events involving pirates between 1660 and 1669. Events. 1660 Although ...
16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; Subcategories. ... Pages in category "16th-century pirates" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
This timeline of the history of piracy in the 1650s is a chronological list of key events involving pirates between 1650 and 1659. Events. Pirates out of ...