• April - Privateer Woodes Rogers
  Woodes Rogers
  Woodes Rogers was an English sea captain, privateer, and, later, the first Royal Governor of the Bahamas. He is known as the captain of the vessel that rescued the marooned Alexander Selkirk, whose plight is generally believed to have inspired Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.Rogers came from an...
  
   and the ships Duke and Duchess raid Guayaquil
  Guayaquil
  Guayaquil , officially Santiago de Guayaquil , is the largest and the most populous city in Ecuador,with about 2.3 million inhabitants in the city and nearly 3.1 million in the metropolitan area, as well as that nation's main port...
  
   in the Viceroyalty of Peru
  Viceroyalty of Peru
  Created in 1542, the Viceroyalty of Peru was a Spanish colonial administrative district that originally contained most of Spanish-ruled South America, governed from the capital of Lima...
  
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• December 22 - Rogers captures the Desengaño, one of the two Manila galleon
  Manila Galleon
  The Manila galleons or Manila-Acapulco galleons were Spanish trading ships that sailed once or twice per year across the Pacific Ocean between Manila in the Philippines, and Acapulco, New Spain . The name changed reflecting the city that the ship was sailing from...
  
  s, off Cabo San Lucas
  Cabo San Lucas
  Cabo San Lucas , commonly called Cabo, is a city at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, in the municipality of Los Cabos in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. As of the 2010 census, the population was 68,463 people...
  
  . Rogers is wounded.
• December 25 - Rogers's Duke and Duchess attack the Begoña, the larger of the two Manila galleons, and are repulsed with heavy losses.

See also

• 1708 in piracy
  1708 in piracy
  See also:1707 in piracy,other events of 1708,1709 in piracy and thelist of 'years of Piracy'.-----Events:*The Parliament of Great Britain passes an act prohibiting the British government from accepting plunder taken by privateers....
  
  
• other events in 1709
• Timeline of piracy
  Timeline of piracy
  This is a timeline of the history of piracy.*1600s: 1600 - 1601 - 1602 - 1603 - 1604 - 1605 - 1606 - 1607 - 1608 - 1609*1610s: 1610 - 1611 - 1612 - 1613 - 1614 - 1615 - 1616 - 1617 - 1618 - 1619...