1620s in piracy explained

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.^[1]

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.^[2]

1626

• Unknown - Cornelius Jol joins the Dutch West India Company and becomes an admiral.^[3]

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.^[4]

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^[5]

1628

• Unknown - John Aylett^[6]

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

Notes and References

1. Book: Tinniswood, Adrian . Pirates of Barbary: corsairs, conquests, and captivity in the seventeenth-century Mediterranean . Riverhead Books . 2010 . 978-1-59448-774-3 . New York . en.
2. [Tonio Andrade|Andrade, Tonio]
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. . .
4. [Angus Konstam|Konstam, Angus]
5. Book: Marley, David . Pirates and privateers of the Americas . ABC-CLIO . 1994 . 2nd . Santa Barbara, California . 275 . en.
6. Book: Marley, David . Pirates of the Americas . ABC-CLIO . 2010 . 978-1-59884-201-2 . 1 . 19 . en.