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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.

See also

• Timeline of piracy
• 1610s in piracy

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