-1400
Egypt: A group thats called ''peoples of the sea'' were organizing attacks with ships from sea to Nile Delta.
-500
Ancient Greece: Phoenician and Greek pirates with ships were organizing attacks from sea to capture people and sell them as slaves.
-477
Military alliance created between Greek cities to fight Persians, this alliance also started to fight against Pirates.
-241
Fleet of Ancient Rome were getting attacked by Illrians and Cilician Pirates.
-75
Julius Caesar (while still being a soldier) was captured by Cilician Pirates and held as prisoners for a month. After his release, Caesar assembles a military fleet and takes revenge from Pirates.
-67
Pirates organizes a raid on a city thats very close to Rome, then General Pompey assembles a powerful military fleet in 3 months to fight against Pirates.
405
Great Britain: a 16 years old boy named Patrick was captured by Pirates, and sold to Ireland as a slave. 6 years later he manages to escape Britain and became a priest, years later he returns to Ireland as a priest and due to his influence, the ''St.Patrick Day'' is celebrated every year in Ireland.
800
Vikings dominates the ports of North Europe and some European territories.
900
Vikings settles down in defeated territories on North Europe, and starts doing the trade business.
1390
Norway Queen Margaret hires pirates (also called privateers while they are hired by governments) to attack the ports of Sweden.
1397
The pirates who attacked Sweeden based on Queen Margaret's directives were not needed but they continued to attack Gotland. The alliance between Norway and Sweden attacks them few years later and ends their influence.
1500
Ottoman Empire hires Privateers such as Barbarossa ''Redbeard'' to attack Christian ships in the coast of Southern Europe.
1503
Pirate ''Redbeard'' Barbarossa settles in Tunusia island Djerba, from there he organizes raids to Spain and Italy to capture Catholic slaves.
1516
Pirate Barbarossa kills the ruler of Algiers and seizes power. Few years later, Barbarossa was killed by an attack from Spain.
1519
Barbarossa's brother Hayreddin takes over his brother's title ''Redbeard'', receives more military reinforcements from Ottoman Empire inexchange for the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire over Algiers and its surroundings.
Meanwhile, Spain and Portugal explore and conquer the territories of America, with the direction from Pope, those 2 countries were sharing the riches of the New World. However, England and France also wanted a share from it, and hires privateers break the Spanish monopoly in the Caribbean.
1522
Frenchmen Jean Fluery seizes two Spanish caravels that were bringing an important Aztec treasure to Spain.
1535
Following years, French, English and Dutch privaateers continues their attack on Caribbean ports and colonies.
1555
Ming Dynasty's taxes pushes merchants to turn into pirates and join Japanese pirates Wokou who controls islands around Japan and attacks China and Korea ports.
1560
French privaateer Jambe de Bois sacks many Spanish colonies on Puerto Rico and Cuba.
1577
England Queen secretly charges privateer Francis Drake to plunder Spanish ports on the Pacific coast of America.
1600
After losing the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, Ottoman Empire's fleet was too weakened to compete with European fleets. Only Barbary Pirates and privateers from the coasts of North Africa continues their attacks on the Christians.
1609
Spain King promulgates the expolsion of the Moriscos, the descendents of Muslims who had been Christianizied a century earlier during the Reconquista, many leaves to settle in Morocco city Sale where they become Pirates to attack Europeans in the Atlantic Ocean.
1618
Barbary Pirates captures Dutch Jan Janszoon who was sold on Algiers, then was converted to Islam and renamed as Reis Mourad and begins his career as a pirate, he migrates to Morocco city Sale and quickly rises in the rank and becomes grand admiral.
1627
Reis Mourad organizes an expedition to Iceland and captures people to sell as slaves.
1631
Reis Mourad organizes another expedition to South Ireland, sacks the city of Baltimore and take captives. England ports had to pay taxes to if they didn't want to get attacked by him.
1635
Reis Mourad was captured by Knights Hospitaller and taken prisoner in Malta.
1650
-Golden Age of Piracy-
In the Caribbeans, pirates and privateers have 2 main bases: Tortuga and Port Royal in Jamaica. France and England, tolerates these pirates and privateers because it weakens Spain by attacking their ships.
1671
Henry Morgan, governer of Jamaica, was known to pillaged many Spanish cities.
Pirates are mainly men fleeing from poverty and unemployment, and seeking freedom, wealth and adventure.
They abide by code of law that organizes life on board, defines an equitable share of future booty, and offers compensation to the injured.
Moreover, the pirate captains of the ship are democratically elected, was chosen based on his abilities as a fighter, sailor and leader.
In 1678, Spain signs a peace treaty with England, United provinces and France, European powers started to rely more on the cultivation of sugarcane to get rich and desired stability in the region, thus the privateers lose their authorization to attack Spaniards.
Many of the privateers who lose their jobs turned into pirates and attacks the mercant ships from all countries without separating.
1692
Englishman Thomas Tew is hired as a privateer to attack French ports in Africa, then changes plan and turns into pirate goes to Indian Ocean enters the Red Sea, where an important Arab-Indian route passes, plunders Mughal merchant ship full of treasure. Each crewmember receives the equivalent of 30 years of wages.
1695
Pirates from Caribbean hears the news Thomas Tew's success, leaves the Caribbean and moves to Indian Ocean.
One of them, Henry Avery, who worked in the English Royal Navy later turned into pirate, goes there with a pirate fleet and seizes a great treasure (around 500,000 pieces of gold) from a Mughal ship. One year later, some of Henry Every's crew members were captured and executed.
As a result, England Empire had to compensate the loss of Mughal Empire by paying their losses so that the England could use the trade routes in the Indian Ocean.
1696
Indian Ocean becomes the favorite of Pirates, the stolen goods ends up in American black market, which threatens the European economy.
Merchant ships starts to arm themselves to fight against the Pirates.
1697
Captain William Kidd was hired as a pirate hunter to fight pirates and French in Indian Ocean, 1 year later Captain Kidd turns into pirate, then was arrested on New York and sentenced to death.
1701
European powers tries to strengthen themselves by hiring pirates as privateers due to the War of the Spanish Succession. Franco-Spanish fleets attacks Nassau in the heart of the Bahamas, English navy flees from the island and leaving it to the hands of the pirates, after they called the place Republic of Pirates in 1706. In 1713 there was around 1000 pirates living in Nassau Bahamas.
1714
At the end of the war, many privateers loses their job and once again many of turns into pirates and moves to Nassau, such as Henry Jennings, Benjamin Hornigold and Olivier Levasseur.
1715
Pirates Henry Jennings and his crew mate Charles Vane captured a Spanish mail ship to learn the exact position of the Spanish salvage camp and Urca de Lima.
1716
Pirate Henry Jennings and his crew ambushed the Spanish salvage camp and retrieved a treasure thats worth 10 years of salary.
Hornigold's pirate crew was irritated due to Hornigold's unwillingness to attack the English ships. Sam Bellamy was elected as the new pirate captain of the pirate ship Marianne instead of Benjamin Hornigold, Hornigold and first mate Edward Teach leaves the ship by taking a captured sloop. While Olivier Levasseur stays with Bellamy for a short time later he leaves Bellamy's crew as well.
1717
Pirate Sam Bellamy captures the slave ship Whydah Gally which was loaded with gold. Few months after capturing the Whydah Gally, Bellamy and his crew were swept up in a violent storm and died.
Edward Teach ''Blackbeard'', former privateer from the War of the Spanish Succession, and his partner Benjamin Hornigold, cruised American's east coast, seizes and plunders 8 merchant ships, Teach leaves Hornigold and becomes partners with Bonnet, continues to terrorize American colonies by capturing 15 merchant ships in 3 weeks.
Later he seizes a large French slave ship, some slaves joins Blackbeard's crew, and he organizes serious attacks on the Caribbean by renaming the ship as Queen Anne's Revenge and equipped her with 40 small cannons. With 4 ships, and 250 crew member, Blackbeard rampaged through West Indies and French Colonies.
He then sails West Gulf of Mexico, plunders Spanish ships and earns himself a new nickname ''El Gran Diablo''.
1718
Pirate Captain Edward Teach becomes the Pirate Commodore by leading 5 Pirate ships goes to South Carolina and managed to blockade the entire Charleston City for 6 days, seized many goods and captured many hostages.
Later they received a royal pardon from North Carolina's Government, but they still plundered 2 French ships in the sea close to North Carolina.
Virginia Governor Spotswood sends a Royal Navy force lead by Lieutenant Maynard caught 60 pirates off-guard on Ocracoke island, Blackbeard was outnumbered 3 to 1 by the Royal Navy force, but still fought skillfuly and bravely.
Blackbeard was winning vs the Navy Lieutenant in 1 v 1 combat until one of the Navy soldiers attacks Blackbeard from behind to save their Navy Lieutenant:
''Maynard and Teach fired their flintlocks at each other. Maynard managed to hit Teach, while Teach missed. Both then threw their flintlocks away and drew their cutlasses. Teach broke Maynard's cutlass at the hilt. Against superior training and a slight advantage in numbers, the pirates were pushed back toward the bow, allowing the Jane's crew to surround Maynard and Teach, who was by then completely isolated.
Teach pressed onward and was about to deliver a killing blow, but was slashed across the neck by one of Maynard's men. This redirected Teach's cutlass to strike Maynard's knuckles instead of killing him. Badly wounded, Teach was then attacked and killed by several more of Maynard's crew.''
Blackbeard's body was found with 5 bullet wounds and 20 sword cuts. It was reported that 10 Pirates and 11 Navy soldiers were killed during the battle, how many of those Navy soldiers were personally killed by Blackbeard is open to interpretation.
Writer E.Oda is inspired by the real life pirate Blackbeard:
1719
Englishman Pirate Bartholomew Roberts, attacks the slave ships on triangular trade routes. 3 years later, he was killed due to a gunshot wound during a naval battle.
Pirate Captain Charles Vane sailed to Honduras Bay Islands where he captured few sloop ships, later due to hurricane he was wrecked on an uninhabited island, when English ships arrived near they recognized Vane and they captured him. Few years later Vane was executed on Jamaica.
Captain Calico Jack Rackham seizes merchant ships on West Indies North America, and later captures a merchant ship named Kingston, which had a rich cargo. 1 year later, Rackham was arrested and executed on Jamaica Port Royal.
1721
English Pirate Christopher Condent attacks the merchant ships in the Indian Ocean, and in the East Indies Indonesia where they captured a rich Arab trading ship called Faza Ramance, few years later he travelled to France and settles down there as a merchant.
Frenchman Pirate Olivier Levasseur seizes a Portugese ship that is bringing the former governer back with accumulated wealth over the last 10 years, huge amounts of golds, and diamonds, treasure was so big each pirate in the crew received 42 pieces of diamonds, one of the biggest catch ever made by a pirate.
During Levasseur execution, it is said that he dropped a piece of paper with a code, declaring ''My treasure to whomever can take it''. This treasure is still sought after today.
Egypt: A group thats called ''peoples of the sea'' were organizing attacks with ships from sea to Nile Delta.
-500
Ancient Greece: Phoenician and Greek pirates with ships were organizing attacks from sea to capture people and sell them as slaves.
-477
Military alliance created between Greek cities to fight Persians, this alliance also started to fight against Pirates.
-241
Fleet of Ancient Rome were getting attacked by Illrians and Cilician Pirates.
-75
Julius Caesar (while still being a soldier) was captured by Cilician Pirates and held as prisoners for a month. After his release, Caesar assembles a military fleet and takes revenge from Pirates.
-67
Pirates organizes a raid on a city thats very close to Rome, then General Pompey assembles a powerful military fleet in 3 months to fight against Pirates.
405
Great Britain: a 16 years old boy named Patrick was captured by Pirates, and sold to Ireland as a slave. 6 years later he manages to escape Britain and became a priest, years later he returns to Ireland as a priest and due to his influence, the ''St.Patrick Day'' is celebrated every year in Ireland.
800
Vikings dominates the ports of North Europe and some European territories.
900
Vikings settles down in defeated territories on North Europe, and starts doing the trade business.
1390
Norway Queen Margaret hires pirates (also called privateers while they are hired by governments) to attack the ports of Sweden.
1397
The pirates who attacked Sweeden based on Queen Margaret's directives were not needed but they continued to attack Gotland. The alliance between Norway and Sweden attacks them few years later and ends their influence.
1500
Ottoman Empire hires Privateers such as Barbarossa ''Redbeard'' to attack Christian ships in the coast of Southern Europe.
1503
Pirate ''Redbeard'' Barbarossa settles in Tunusia island Djerba, from there he organizes raids to Spain and Italy to capture Catholic slaves.
1516
Pirate Barbarossa kills the ruler of Algiers and seizes power. Few years later, Barbarossa was killed by an attack from Spain.
1519
Barbarossa's brother Hayreddin takes over his brother's title ''Redbeard'', receives more military reinforcements from Ottoman Empire inexchange for the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire over Algiers and its surroundings.
Meanwhile, Spain and Portugal explore and conquer the territories of America, with the direction from Pope, those 2 countries were sharing the riches of the New World. However, England and France also wanted a share from it, and hires privateers break the Spanish monopoly in the Caribbean.
1522
Frenchmen Jean Fluery seizes two Spanish caravels that were bringing an important Aztec treasure to Spain.
1535
Following years, French, English and Dutch privaateers continues their attack on Caribbean ports and colonies.
1555
Ming Dynasty's taxes pushes merchants to turn into pirates and join Japanese pirates Wokou who controls islands around Japan and attacks China and Korea ports.
1560
French privaateer Jambe de Bois sacks many Spanish colonies on Puerto Rico and Cuba.
1577
England Queen secretly charges privateer Francis Drake to plunder Spanish ports on the Pacific coast of America.
1600
After losing the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, Ottoman Empire's fleet was too weakened to compete with European fleets. Only Barbary Pirates and privateers from the coasts of North Africa continues their attacks on the Christians.
1609
Spain King promulgates the expolsion of the Moriscos, the descendents of Muslims who had been Christianizied a century earlier during the Reconquista, many leaves to settle in Morocco city Sale where they become Pirates to attack Europeans in the Atlantic Ocean.
1618
Barbary Pirates captures Dutch Jan Janszoon who was sold on Algiers, then was converted to Islam and renamed as Reis Mourad and begins his career as a pirate, he migrates to Morocco city Sale and quickly rises in the rank and becomes grand admiral.
1627
Reis Mourad organizes an expedition to Iceland and captures people to sell as slaves.
1631
Reis Mourad organizes another expedition to South Ireland, sacks the city of Baltimore and take captives. England ports had to pay taxes to if they didn't want to get attacked by him.
1635
Reis Mourad was captured by Knights Hospitaller and taken prisoner in Malta.
1650
-Golden Age of Piracy-
In the Caribbeans, pirates and privateers have 2 main bases: Tortuga and Port Royal in Jamaica. France and England, tolerates these pirates and privateers because it weakens Spain by attacking their ships.
1671
Henry Morgan, governer of Jamaica, was known to pillaged many Spanish cities.
Pirates are mainly men fleeing from poverty and unemployment, and seeking freedom, wealth and adventure.
They abide by code of law that organizes life on board, defines an equitable share of future booty, and offers compensation to the injured.
Moreover, the pirate captains of the ship are democratically elected, was chosen based on his abilities as a fighter, sailor and leader.
In 1678, Spain signs a peace treaty with England, United provinces and France, European powers started to rely more on the cultivation of sugarcane to get rich and desired stability in the region, thus the privateers lose their authorization to attack Spaniards.
Many of the privateers who lose their jobs turned into pirates and attacks the mercant ships from all countries without separating.
1692
Englishman Thomas Tew is hired as a privateer to attack French ports in Africa, then changes plan and turns into pirate goes to Indian Ocean enters the Red Sea, where an important Arab-Indian route passes, plunders Mughal merchant ship full of treasure. Each crewmember receives the equivalent of 30 years of wages.
1695
Pirates from Caribbean hears the news Thomas Tew's success, leaves the Caribbean and moves to Indian Ocean.
One of them, Henry Avery, who worked in the English Royal Navy later turned into pirate, goes there with a pirate fleet and seizes a great treasure (around 500,000 pieces of gold) from a Mughal ship. One year later, some of Henry Every's crew members were captured and executed.
As a result, England Empire had to compensate the loss of Mughal Empire by paying their losses so that the England could use the trade routes in the Indian Ocean.
1696
Indian Ocean becomes the favorite of Pirates, the stolen goods ends up in American black market, which threatens the European economy.
Merchant ships starts to arm themselves to fight against the Pirates.
1697
Captain William Kidd was hired as a pirate hunter to fight pirates and French in Indian Ocean, 1 year later Captain Kidd turns into pirate, then was arrested on New York and sentenced to death.
1701
European powers tries to strengthen themselves by hiring pirates as privateers due to the War of the Spanish Succession. Franco-Spanish fleets attacks Nassau in the heart of the Bahamas, English navy flees from the island and leaving it to the hands of the pirates, after they called the place Republic of Pirates in 1706. In 1713 there was around 1000 pirates living in Nassau Bahamas.
1714
At the end of the war, many privateers loses their job and once again many of turns into pirates and moves to Nassau, such as Henry Jennings, Benjamin Hornigold and Olivier Levasseur.
1715
Pirates Henry Jennings and his crew mate Charles Vane captured a Spanish mail ship to learn the exact position of the Spanish salvage camp and Urca de Lima.
1716
Pirate Henry Jennings and his crew ambushed the Spanish salvage camp and retrieved a treasure thats worth 10 years of salary.
Hornigold's pirate crew was irritated due to Hornigold's unwillingness to attack the English ships. Sam Bellamy was elected as the new pirate captain of the pirate ship Marianne instead of Benjamin Hornigold, Hornigold and first mate Edward Teach leaves the ship by taking a captured sloop. While Olivier Levasseur stays with Bellamy for a short time later he leaves Bellamy's crew as well.
1717
Pirate Sam Bellamy captures the slave ship Whydah Gally which was loaded with gold. Few months after capturing the Whydah Gally, Bellamy and his crew were swept up in a violent storm and died.
Edward Teach ''Blackbeard'', former privateer from the War of the Spanish Succession, and his partner Benjamin Hornigold, cruised American's east coast, seizes and plunders 8 merchant ships, Teach leaves Hornigold and becomes partners with Bonnet, continues to terrorize American colonies by capturing 15 merchant ships in 3 weeks.
Later he seizes a large French slave ship, some slaves joins Blackbeard's crew, and he organizes serious attacks on the Caribbean by renaming the ship as Queen Anne's Revenge and equipped her with 40 small cannons. With 4 ships, and 250 crew member, Blackbeard rampaged through West Indies and French Colonies.
He then sails West Gulf of Mexico, plunders Spanish ships and earns himself a new nickname ''El Gran Diablo''.
1718
Pirate Captain Edward Teach becomes the Pirate Commodore by leading 5 Pirate ships goes to South Carolina and managed to blockade the entire Charleston City for 6 days, seized many goods and captured many hostages.
Later they received a royal pardon from North Carolina's Government, but they still plundered 2 French ships in the sea close to North Carolina.
Virginia Governor Spotswood sends a Royal Navy force lead by Lieutenant Maynard caught 60 pirates off-guard on Ocracoke island, Blackbeard was outnumbered 3 to 1 by the Royal Navy force, but still fought skillfuly and bravely.
Blackbeard was winning vs the Navy Lieutenant in 1 v 1 combat until one of the Navy soldiers attacks Blackbeard from behind to save their Navy Lieutenant:
''Maynard and Teach fired their flintlocks at each other. Maynard managed to hit Teach, while Teach missed. Both then threw their flintlocks away and drew their cutlasses. Teach broke Maynard's cutlass at the hilt. Against superior training and a slight advantage in numbers, the pirates were pushed back toward the bow, allowing the Jane's crew to surround Maynard and Teach, who was by then completely isolated.
Teach pressed onward and was about to deliver a killing blow, but was slashed across the neck by one of Maynard's men. This redirected Teach's cutlass to strike Maynard's knuckles instead of killing him. Badly wounded, Teach was then attacked and killed by several more of Maynard's crew.''
Blackbeard's body was found with 5 bullet wounds and 20 sword cuts. It was reported that 10 Pirates and 11 Navy soldiers were killed during the battle, how many of those Navy soldiers were personally killed by Blackbeard is open to interpretation.
Writer E.Oda is inspired by the real life pirate Blackbeard:
1719
Englishman Pirate Bartholomew Roberts, attacks the slave ships on triangular trade routes. 3 years later, he was killed due to a gunshot wound during a naval battle.
Pirate Captain Charles Vane sailed to Honduras Bay Islands where he captured few sloop ships, later due to hurricane he was wrecked on an uninhabited island, when English ships arrived near they recognized Vane and they captured him. Few years later Vane was executed on Jamaica.
Captain Calico Jack Rackham seizes merchant ships on West Indies North America, and later captures a merchant ship named Kingston, which had a rich cargo. 1 year later, Rackham was arrested and executed on Jamaica Port Royal.
1721
English Pirate Christopher Condent attacks the merchant ships in the Indian Ocean, and in the East Indies Indonesia where they captured a rich Arab trading ship called Faza Ramance, few years later he travelled to France and settles down there as a merchant.
Frenchman Pirate Olivier Levasseur seizes a Portugese ship that is bringing the former governer back with accumulated wealth over the last 10 years, huge amounts of golds, and diamonds, treasure was so big each pirate in the crew received 42 pieces of diamonds, one of the biggest catch ever made by a pirate.
During Levasseur execution, it is said that he dropped a piece of paper with a code, declaring ''My treasure to whomever can take it''. This treasure is still sought after today.
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