See also 1717 in piracy, other events in 1718, 1719 in piracy, and Timeline of piracy. [edit] Events [edit] Baltic Sea [edit] Caribbean Sea - March - Edward Teach, alias Blackbeard, captures the sloop Adventure and the ship Protestant Caesar in the Bay of Honduras.
- March-April - Charles Vane and 12 pirates capture a Jamaica sloop in the Bahamas, retaining her for his own use.
- April - Vane captures the sloop Lark in the Bahamas and transfers his crew to her.
- April-July 4 - Vane robs seven French and English vessels in the Bahamas.
- Summer - Howell Davis is turned in as a pirate by the Cadogan's crew and is imprisoned on Barbados. He is eventually released for lack of evidence.
- July 24-25 - Woodes Rogers arrives at Nassau, Bahamas with two warships to assume his post as governor. Most of the pirates welcome him, except Vane, who sails away shooting at Rogers' vessels.
- July 27 - Vane captures a sloop from Barbados and incorporates it in his fleet.
- July 29 - Vane captures the John and Elizabeth, looting some pieces of eight.
- Autumn
- Howell Davis leads a mutiny on Rogers' sloop Buck and turns back to piracy. He captures two French ships and a Spanish sloop off Hispaniola.
- Vane plunders the inhabitants of Isleatherer (Eleuthera?).
- October - Richard Worley's pirates seize a sloop and a brigantine in the Bahamas.
- Late November - Vane attacks a French vessel in the Windward Passage, but flees upon discovering it is a warship. The incident causes bad blood between Vane and his quartermaster, Calico Jack Rackham, who favored continuing the attack.
- December - Vane captures a sloop and two periaguas off northwest Jamaica.
- December 9-10 - John Augur and eight of his pirates are convicted and sentenced to death for piracy at Nassau, Bahamas
- December 16 - Vane captures the sloop Pearl in the Bay of Honduras.
[edit] North America - May - Blackbeard blockades Charleston, South Carolina with a flotilla of four ships. Five vessels are captured, all merchant traffic is stopped, and several Charleston citizens are held hostage until a ransom of medicines is paid.
- Early June - Blackbeard and Stede Bonnet surrender to North Carolina governor Charles Eden and are pardoned under the Act of Grace, but both soon return to piracy.
- Late June - Blackbeard captures five ships between Bermuda and North Carolina.
- June-July - Bonnet in the sloop Royal James (ex-Revenge) captures 13 vessels between North Carolina and Delaware Bay.
- August 12 - Bonnet captures a shallop in the Cape Fear River.
- August 30 - Vane takes and ransacks the ships Neptune and Emperor off the Carolinas.
- Early September - Vane attacks the shipping off Charleston, capturing five vessels. Vane's subordinate, Yeats, defects to the Charleston governor with a sloop, surrendering and accepting a pardon under the Act of Grace.
- September - Pirates led by Richard Worley, in an open boat, rob a shallop and commandeer two sloops in the Delaware River.
- September 27 - Bonnet and his men are captured by Colonel William Rhett with two sloops in the battle of Cape Fear River.
October 23 - Vane sacks a brigantine and a sloop off Long Island, New York. - October 24-November 5 - 33 men captured from Bonnet's sloop Royal James are put on trial before Sir Nicholas Trott in Charleston. 29 are convicted and sentenced to death.
- Late October - Pirate captain Richard Worley is killed and his two vessels captured in a battle with a squadron of four South Carolinian vessels in Charleston harbor.
- November 8 - 22 pirates of Stede Bonnet's crew are hanged in Charleston.
- November 10-12 - Stede Bonnet is tried for piracy, convicted, and sentenced to death by Sir Nicholas Trott in Charleston.
- November 22 - Blackbeard is killed and his crew captured by Robert Maynard's men in a battle at Ocracoke Inlet.
- December 10 - Bonnet is hanged in Charleston.
[edit] West Africa - Summer-Autumn - Edward England prowls off Sierra Leone, capturing several vessels including the snow Cadogan, whose commanding officer, Captain Skinner, is murdered. England then gives the Cadogan to his mate, Howell Davis.
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