1610s in piracy

This timeline of the history of piracy in the 1610s is a chronological list of key events involving pirates between 1610 and 1619.

1610

 * By December - Word has reached England of Francis Verney and Jack Ward's conversion to Islam.
 * December 8 - The English pirate Peter Love, who had set up base in the Outer Hebrides, was betrayed by a confederate, tried for piracy, and executed in Scotland.
 * Unknown - Hendrik Brouwer sails for the Dutch East Indies commanding three ships for the Dutch East India Company.
 * Unknown - Henry Mainwaring is commissioned to capture Peter Easton.
 * Unknown - Easton blockades the Bristol Channel.

1611

 * Late Spring - Easton arrives off the coast of Cork with a squadron of ships requesting to parley.

1612

 * February - A general pardon of all pirates who are subjects of James I is announced
 * November - James I issues a pardon in Easton's name if he is to return the Concorde to its previous owners.

1613

 * Early in the year - The Duke of Savoy declares Nice and Villefranche to be free ports and offering asylum for pirates.
 * February 20 - Easton sails into Villefranche and meets with the Duke of Savoy, investing 100,000 crowns in return for annual income.

1614

 * June 4 - Mainwaring arrives in Newfoundland with a fleet of six ships.
 * Late in the year - Louis XIII asks Simon Danseker to help negotiate with the pirates around Tunis.
 * Unknown - Verney converts back to Catholicism to escape being a galley slave after being captured by a Sicilian corsair.

1615

 * February - Having agreed to Louis XIII's request, Danseker arrives in the Gulf of Tunis with two French ships.
 * June - Mainwaring engages four Spanish men-of-war off the coast of Portugal and emerges successful.

1616

 * June 9 - Mainwaring is pardoned by James I.

1617

 * Walter Raleigh is pardoned by James I and sent on a second expedition in search of El Dorado.

1618

 * March 20 - Mainwaring is knighted at Woking.
 * May 23 - The Thirty Years' War starts, causing a rise in piracy.
 * October 29 - Raleigh is executed.
 * Unknown - Piet Pieterszoon Hein is pressed into service by the Republic of Venice.
 * Unknown - Robert Walsingham is captured in Ireland by the English.

1615

 * After February - Simon Danseker

1618

 * Unknown - Pérez de Guzmán

1610

 * November 9 - George Somers
 * December 8 - Peter Love

1613

 * April - Neil MacLeod

1615

 * September 6 - Francis Verney

1618

 * January - Lawrence Kemys
 * June 6 - James Lancaster
 * September 24 - William Parker
 * October 29 - Walter Raleigh