1722 in piracy explained

See also 1721 in piracy, 1723 in piracy and Timeline of piracy.

Events

March - English ship seized and robbed by Spaniards.^[1]
March–April - Matthew Luke, an Italian guarda costa privateer, plunders four British vessels, killing all aboard.^[2]
May - Luke attacks English war vessel, mistaking it for a merchant ship. He and his crew are captured and brought to Jamaica, where all but seven of his crew are hanged.
August - Under the command of Thomas Anstis, John Fenn's ship, the Morning Star, wrecks on Grand Cayman.^[3]

February 5 - Bartholomew Roberts' consort vessel, Ranger, captured by Chaloner Ogle.^[4]
February 10 - Roberts' ship,, is overtaken and defeated by Ogle in . Roberts is killed and his crew is captured.^[5]
March 28 - 52 of Roberts' pirates are sentenced to death at Cape Coast Castle.

In total, 118 pirates in Roberts' crew die after being defeated by Chaloner Ogle.

14 crew members are killed on board Roberts' vessels during the battle with Ogle:^[6]

104 of Roberts' pirates are executed or killed by the Vice Admiralty Court:^[7]

52 crew members, including Christopher Moody, Israel Hynde (or Israel Hands), are executed by hanging on April 3–20 at Cape Coast Castle.
15 crew members die of wounds en route to Cape Coast Castle.
4 crew members die in the castle dungeons while awaiting trial and/or hanging.
13 of 17 members sentenced to Marshalsea Prison die during the passage to London.
All 20 members sentenced to 7 years of labor in the Cape Coast mines die before finishing their sentence.
1 of 2 members with respited guilty sentences dies (unknown if by execution or natural causes).

February 10 - Bartholomew Roberts, who reportedly robbed 470 vessels in his career, killed in action off Cape López.^[8]

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Book: Wells, David . A Brief History of the Cayman Islands . October 1, 2018 . The West India Committee . 17.
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Book: Cordingly, David. Under the Black Flag: the romance and the reality of life among the pirates. Random House Trade Paperbacks. 2006. 978-0-307-76307-5. New York. xix.
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Book: Lane, Kris. Piracy in the Early Modern Era : An Anthology of Sources. Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated. 2019. 9781624668241. xiii.