1630s in piracy explained

This timeline of the history of piracy in the 1630s is a chronological list of key events involving pirates between 1630 and 1639.

Events

June 20 - Murat Reis the Younger executes the Sack of Baltimore where he captured 108 English planters and local Irish people. Almost all the villagers were put in irons and taken to a life of slavery in North Africa.^[1]
December - Frances Knight is captured by Algerian corsairs and forced into slavery.^[2]
Unknown - The Franco-Moroccan Treaty is signed between Louis XIII and Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik II, with contributions by Murat Reis the Younger.

August 12 - Cornelis Jol attacks Campeche, then owned by Spain.
October 22 - Zheng Zhilong defeats a fleet of Dutch East India Company vessels in the Battle of Liaoluo Bay.
Unknown - Samuel Axe, Abraham Blauvelt, and Sussex Cammock leave New Providence and sail for Honduras.^[3]

Unknown - Murat Reis the Younger is captured near the Tunisian coast by the Knights of Malta then subsequently imprisoned and tortured.

February 29 - Jacob Collaert and Mathieu Romboutsen were captured by Johan Evertsen after a five-hour battle.
Unknown - The Spanish attack New Providence, prompting Samuel Axe to return and defend it.

Summer - Nathaniel Butler captures a Spanish frigate near the harbor of Trujillo and is later paid 16,000 pesos in ransom.^[4]
Unknown - William Jackson enters service under the Providence Island Company.

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