Caribbean Sea

• February - Bartholomew Roberts
  Bartholomew Roberts
  Bartholomew Roberts , born John Roberts, was a Welsh pirate who raided ships off America and West Africa between 1719 and 1722. He was the most successful pirate of the Golden Age of Piracy. He is estimated to have captured over 470 vessels...
  
   robs four vessels near Barbados
  Barbados
  Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint...
  
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• February 26 - Two pirate ships commanded by Bartholomew Roberts and Montigny la Palisse are attacked near Barbados by local ships and driven away with heavy casualties.
• March - Two sloops sent from Martinique
  Martinique
  Martinique is an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of . Like Guadeloupe, it is an overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department. To the northwest lies Dominica, to the south St Lucia, and to the southeast Barbados...
  
   to capture Roberts and his men arrive too late to capture the pirates, who have sailed northward. Roberts adopts a new flag threatening death to the inhabitants of Barbados and Martinique.
• August - Calico Jack Rackham steals John Haman's sloop
  Sloop
  A sloop is a sail boat with a fore-and-aft rig and a single mast farther forward than the mast of a cutter....
  
   from the harbor of Nassau, Bahamas
  Nassau, Bahamas
  Nassau is the capital, largest city, and commercial centre of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. The city has a population of 248,948 , 70 percent of the entire population of The Bahamas...
  
   and leads a crew of pirates to sea, including Anne Bonny & Mary Read.
• September Rackham and his pirates loot several fishing boats in the Bahamas. They then raid French Hispaniola
  Hispaniola
  Hispaniola is a major island in the Caribbean, containing the two sovereign states of the Dominican Republic and Haiti. The island is located between the islands of Cuba to the west and Puerto Rico to the east, within the hurricane belt...
  
   for cattle and capture two sloop
  Sloop
  A sloop is a sail boat with a fore-and-aft rig and a single mast farther forward than the mast of a cutter....
  
  s.
• Roberts returns to the Caribbean, bombards Saint Kitts
  Saint Kitts
  Saint Kitts Saint Kitts Saint Kitts (also known more formally as Saint Christopher Island (Saint-Christophe in French) is an island in the West Indies. The west side of the island borders the Caribbean Sea, and the eastern coast faces the Atlantic Ocean...
  
   and burns two ships in the harbor. Some weeks later, Roberts captures a French ship near Carriacou and commandeers it, renaming it the Royal Fortune.
• October - Pirates under Rackham's leadership ransack several vessels off northern Jamaica.
• October - Rackham and his crew are captured by a commissioned sloop commanded by Jonathan Barnet. After the main mast is disabled, the surprised pirates make no resistance except for Anne Bonny
  Anne Bonny
  Anne Bonny was an Irish woman who became a famous female pirate, operating in the Caribbean. What little is known of her life comes largely from A General History of the Pyrates.-Historical record:...
  
   and Mary Read
  Mary Read
  Mary Read was an English pirate. She is chiefly remembered as one of only two women known to have been convicted of piracy during the early 18th century, at the height of the Golden Age of Piracy....
  
   and one other.
• November Rackham & his crew are tried, sentenced & hanged. Rackham & 2 others are gibbetted. Read & Bonny are tried a week later, sentenced (execution delayed due to pregnancy).

Indian Ocean

• Undated - Edward England
  Edward England
  Edward England, born Edward Seegar in Ireland, was a famous African coast and Indian Ocean pirate captain from 1717 to 1720. The ships he sailed on included the Pearl and later the Fancy, for which England exchanged the Pearl in 1720...
  
   ravages the Malabar Coast
  Malabar Coast
  The Malabar Coast is a long and narrow coastline on the south-western shore line of the mainland Indian subcontinent. Geographically, it comprises the wettest regions of southern India, as the Western Ghats intercept the moisture-laden monsoon rains, especially on their westward-facing mountain...
  
  al shipping, taking one Dutch vessel and an unknown number of Indian hulls.
• October - Captain Condent
  Christopher Condent
  Christopher Condent , born in Plymouth in Devon, was an English pirate who led the return to the Eastern Seas. He and his crew fled New Providence in 1718, when Woodes Rogers became governor of the island....
  
   captures an Arab ship off Bombay, stealing approximately ₤150,000 worth of cash and cargo.
• November 20, 1720 - Captain England in the Fancy and Captain Olivier Levasseur
  Olivier Levasseur
  Olivier Levasseur , was a pirate, nicknamed La Buse or La Bouche in his early days, called thus because of the speed and ruthlessness with which he always attacked his enemies.-History:...
  
   alias "la Buse" attack Captain James Macrae
  James Macrae
  James Macrae was a Scottish seaman and administrator who served as the President of Fort St George from 1725 to 1730. He is known for naval exploits against the pirate Edward England and for reforming the administration of Madras Presidency....
  
   in the East Indiaman Cassandra near Anjouan
  Anjouan
  Anjouan is an autonomous island, part of the Union of Comoros. The island is located in the Indian Ocean. Its capital is Mutsamudu and its population as of 2006 is about 277,500. The total area of the island is 424 sq. kilometers Anjouan (also known as Ndzuwani or Nzwani) is an autonomous island,...
  
   in the Comoros
  Comoros
  The Comoros , officially the Union of the Comoros is an archipelago island nation in the Indian Ocean, located off the eastern coast of Africa, on the northern end of the Mozambique Channel, between northeastern Mozambique and northwestern Madagascar...
  
  . Macrae is ultimately forced aground after a bloody battle.
• November-December - Captain England and some of his friends are marooned by their pirate crew, who elect John Taylor
  John Taylor (pirate)
  John Taylor was a pirate who lived in the early 18th century.At Reunion Island in April 1721, he together with Olivier Levasseur captured the most valuable prize in pirate history, variously described as "Nostra Senora della Cabo", "Nostra Senhora do Cabo", or "Nossa Senhora do Cabo" .-Further...
  
   to replace him.

North America

• June 21 - Bartholomew Roberts invades the harbor of Trepassey
  Trepassey, Newfoundland and Labrador
  Trepassey , is a small fishing community located in Trepassey Bay on the south eastern corner of the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland and Labrador. It was in Trepassey Harbour where the flight of the Friendship took off, piloted by Amelia Earhart...
  
  , Newfoundland, plundering 22 vessels and burning all but one.
• July - Roberts captures nine or ten French vessels off the Grand Banks
  Grand Banks
  The Grand Banks of Newfoundland are a group of underwater plateaus southeast of Newfoundland on the North American continental shelf. These areas are relatively shallow, ranging from in depth. The cold Labrador Current mixes with the warm waters of the Gulf Stream here.The mixing of these waters...
  
   and commandeers a new ship, the 26-gun Fortune. Aboard the Fortune, Roberts proceeds to take ten English vessels, then sails back toward the Caribbean.

West Africa

• October-November - Roberts in the Royal Fortune tries to reach the Cape Verde
  Cape Verde
  The Republic of Cape Verde is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 10 islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa...
  
   Islands, but misses his landfall and is forced back to the West Indies by the trade wind
  Trade wind
  The trade winds are the prevailing pattern of easterly surface winds found in the tropics, within the lower portion of the Earth's atmosphere, in the lower section of the troposphere near the Earth's equator...
  
  . Shortage of water kills many of his pirates.

Deaths

• November 17 - Calico Jack Rackham hanged for piracy at Gallows Point, Port Royal, Jamaica (b.December 21, 1682).