1666-69 - Bartolomew Portuges operates in waters off Campeche, Mexico
1667 - Jean David Nau, alias "L'Ollonois", becomes known for his extreme cruelties, absolutely horrid things, even in the pirating world
1667 - Maracaibo sacked by Henry Morgan
1668 - Puerto Bello sacked by Morgan
1669 - Morgan raids Cuba
1670 - Roche Braziliano terrorizes the Spanish
1672 - Morgan takes Panama
1674 - Morgan is knighted by King Charles II of England, becomes Lt. Governor of Jamaica
1694 - Jamaica is overrun by French buccaneers under Jean du Casse
1695 - Henry Avery captures the Great Mogul's ship
1697-99 - William Kidd is commissioned to hunt down pirates, but becomes pirate himself
1701- William Kidd is hanged for piracy and murder of a crewman
1702 - Du Casse defeats the English at Santa Marta
1718 - Woodes Rogers expels pirates from Jamaica
1718 - Blackbeard is killed by Lt. Maynard at Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina, beheaded after his death from many sword cuts and five pistol balls, his head tied under the bowsprit of Maynard's sloop after his body is thrown overboard
1718-20 - Edward England is actively pirating
1719 - Howell Davis, a Welsh pirate, is actively pirating
1720 - Anne Bonny, Mary Read and "Calico" Jack Rackman are captured; "Calico" Jack hung, Anne Bonny and Mary Read both "plead their bellies" (pregnant); Anne may have been released; Mary dies of a violent fever in prison
1720-22 - Bartholomew Roberts, --- the Guinea Coast and the West Indies
1775- A Spanish expedition sent to clear out a pirate stronghold is Algiers fails
1776-80 - Over 2000 American privateers aids the Colonies and prey upon the English
1779 - Capt. James Cook is killed by Hawaiian natives, and his body is cooked to remove the flesh and save the bones as a Polynesian funeral rite for the honored dead
1815 - Jean La Fitte and his pirates aid Andrew Jackson at the Battle Of New Orleans and become heroes, but they can't resist going back to pirating again
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