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1694 In Piracy
{{unreferenced, date=March 2019 ''See also'' 1693 in piracy, other events in 1694, 1695 in piracy, and Timeline of piracy. Europe *May 7 - Henry Every leads a mutiny aboard the privateer ship '' Charles II'' at A Coruña and turns the crew to piracy. North America *April - Thomas Tew offloads his stolen treasure at Newport, Rhode Island. *November - Tew purchases new letter of marque from New York governor Benjamin Fletcher Benjamin Fletcher (14 May 1640 – 28 May 1703) was colonial governor of New York from 1692 to 1697. Fletcher was known for the ''Ministry Act'' of 1693, which secured the place of Anglicans as the official religion in New York. He also built ... and sails on a new pirate cruise for the Indian Ocean. Piracy Piracy by year 1694 in military history ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1693 In Piracy
Events Indian Ocean * Autumn - Thomas Tew's sloop ''Amity'' captures large Mughal vessel near strait of Bab-el-Mandeb. Births Deaths {{Empty section, date=July 2010 See also * 1692 in piracy * 1693 * 1694 in piracy * Timeline of piracy This is a timeline of the history of piracy. * Piracy in ancient history * Piracy in post-classical history *1560s *1570s *1580s *1590s *1600s *1610s *1620s *1630s *1640s *1650s * 1660s *1670s *1680s * 1690s: 1690 – 1691 – 1692 – 1693 – ... Piracy Piracy by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1694
Events January–March * January 16 – Francesco Morosini, the Doge of Venice since 1688, dies after ruling the Republic for more than five years and a few months after an unsuccessful attempt to capture the island of Negropont from the Ottoman Empire during the Morean War. * January 18 – Sir James Montgomery of Scotland, who had been arrested on January 11 for conspiracy to restore King James to the throne, escapes and flees to France. * January 21 (January 11 O.S.) – The Kiev Academy, now the national university of Ukraine, receives official recognition by Tsar Ivan V of Russia. * January 28 – '' Pirro e Demetrio'', an opera by Alessandro Scarlatti, is given its first performance, debuting at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples. The opera is adapted in 1708 in London as Pyrrhus and Demetrius and becomes the second most popular opera in 18th century London. * January 29 – French missionary Jean-Baptiste Labat arrives in the "New World", landing at the Caribbean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1695 In Piracy
Events Indian Ocean *September **After pursuing a 25-ship Mughal convoy through the Mandab Strait, Captain Thomas Tew and the ''Amity'' overtook one of the Mughal ships, the ''Fateh Muhammed'', and attacked the vessel. Although taking the Mughal ship by surprise, Tew himself was killed while attempting to board the ship. Upon witnessing the death of their Captain, who had reportedly been disemboweled by a cannon shot, his crew surrendered to the Mughals and remained captives until their rescue by Captain Henry Every that same month. **Henry Every's ''Fancy'' (previously ''Charles II'') captures Mughal Mughal or Moghul may refer to: Related to the Mughal Empire * Mughal Empire of South Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries * Mughal dynasty * Mughal emperors * Mughal people, a social group of Central and South Asia * Mughal architecture * Mug ... ships '' Fateh Muhammed'' and '' Ganj-I-Sawai''. Freeing the surviving members of Tew's crew, pirates rape and murder large number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timeline Of Piracy
This is a timeline of the history of piracy. * Piracy in ancient history * Piracy in post-classical history *1560s *1570s *1580s *1590s *1600s *1610s *1620s *1630s *1640s *1650s * 1660s *1670s *1680s * 1690s: 1690 – 1691 – 1692 – 1693 – 1694 – 1695 – 1696 – 1697 – 1698 – 1699 *1700s: 1700 – 1701 – 1702 – 1703 – 1704 – 1705 – 1706 – 1707 – 1708 – 1709 *1710s: 1710 – 1711 – 1712 – 1713 – 1714 – 1715 – 1716 – 1717 – 1718 – 1719 *1720s: 1720 – 1721 – 1722 – 1723 – 1724 – 1725 – 1726 – 1727 – 1728 – 1729 *1730s: 1730 – 1731 – 1732 – 1733 – 1734 – 1735 – 1736 – 1737 – 1738 – 1739 *1740s: 1740 – 1741 – 1742 – 1743 – 1744 – 1745 – 1746 – 1747 – 1748 – 1749 *1750s: 1750 – 1751 – 1752 – 1753 – 1754 – 1755 – 1756 – 1757 – 1758 – 1759 *1760s: 1760 – 1761 – 1762 – 1763 – 1764 – 1765 – 1766 – 1767 – 1768 – 1769 *1770s: 1770 – 1771 – 1772 – 1773 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Every
Henry Every, also known as Henry Avery (20 August 1659after 1696), sometimes erroneously given as Jack Avery or John Avery, was an English pirate who operated in the Atlantic and Indian oceans in the mid-1690s. He probably used several aliases throughout his career, including Benjamin Bridgeman, and was known as Long Ben to his crewmen and associates. Dubbed "The Arch Pirate" and "The King of Pirates" by contemporaries, Every was infamous for being one of very few major pirate captains to escape with his loot without being arrested or killed in battle, and for being the perpetrator of what has been called the most profitable act of piracy in history. Although Every's career as a pirate lasted only two years, his exploits captured the public's imagination, inspired others to take up piracy, and spawned works of literature. Every began his pirate career while he was first mate aboard the warship ''Charles II''. As the ship lay anchored in the northern Spanish harbour of Corunna, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mutiny
Mutiny is a revolt among a group of people (typically of a military, of a crew or of a crew of pirates) to oppose, change, or overthrow an organization to which they were previously loyal. The term is commonly used for a rebellion among members of the military against an internal force, but it can also sometimes mean any type of rebellion against any force. Mutiny does not necessarily need to refer to a military force and can describe a political, economic, or power structure in which there is a change of power. During the Age of Discovery, mutiny particularly meant open rebellion against a ship's captain. This occurred, for example, during Ferdinand Magellan's journeys around the world, resulting in the killing of one mutineer, the execution of another, and the marooning of others; on Henry Hudson's ''Discovery'', resulting in Hudson and others being set adrift in a boat; and the notorious mutiny on the ''Bounty''. Penalty Those convicted of mutiny often faced capital punis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privateer
A privateer is a private person or ship that engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war. Since robbery under arms was a common aspect of seaborne trade, until the early 19th century all merchant ships carried arms. A sovereign or delegated authority issued commissions, also referred to as a letter of marque, during wartime. The commission empowered the holder to carry on all forms of hostility permissible at sea by the usages of war. This included attacking foreign vessels and taking them as prizes, and taking prize crews as prisoners for exchange. Captured ships were subject to condemnation and sale under prize law, with the proceeds divided by percentage between the privateer's sponsors, shipowners, captains and crew. A percentage share usually went to the issuer of the commission (i.e. the sovereign). Privateering allowed sovereigns to raise revenue for war by mobilizing privately owned armed ships and sailors to supplement state power. For participants, privateerin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fancy (Every's Pirate Ship)
''Fancy'' was a 46-gun frigate commanded by pirate Henry Every between May 1694 to late 1695. History ''Fancy'' was initially a 46-gun privateer named ''Charles II'' – after Charles II of Spain – in Spanish service, commanded by a Captain Gibson, and was anchored at A Coruña, Spain. On 7 May 1694, Henry Every and a few other conspirators organised and carried out a successful mutiny and, setting Captain Gibson ashore, left A Coruña for the Cape of Good Hope. At this time, ''Charles II'' was renamed ''Fancy''. Upon arriving at the Cape, Every sailed to the island of Johanna (Anjouan) in the Comoros Islands, where he had ''Fancy'' careened – removing barnacles and weed from the section of the hull that was permanently below water, increasing her speed. He also had ''Fancy'' razeed, intentionally removing parts of the ship's superstructure in order to increase her speed. Following this work, ''Fancy'' became one of the fastest ships active in the Indian Ocea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Coruña
A Coruña (; es, La Coruña ; historical English: Corunna or The Groyne) is a city and municipality of Galicia, Spain. A Coruña is the most populated city in Galicia and the second most populated municipality in the autonomous community and seventeenth overall in the country. The city is the provincial capital of the province of the same name, having also served as political capital of the Kingdom of Galicia from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and as a regional administrative centre between 1833 and 1982, before being replaced by Santiago de Compostela. A Coruña is located on a promontory in the Golfo Ártabro, a large gulf on the Atlantic Ocean. It is the main industrial and financial centre of northern Galicia, and holds the headquarters of the Universidade da Coruña. A Coruña is a packed city, the Spanish city featuring the tallest mean-height of buildings, also featuring a population density of 21,972 inhabitants per square km of built land area. Name Origin Ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Tew
Thomas Tew (died September 1695), also known as the Rhode Island Pirate, was a 17th-century English privateer-turned-pirate. He embarked on two major pirate voyages and met a bloody death on the second, and he pioneered the route which became known as the Pirate Round. Other infamous pirates in his path included Henry Every and William Kidd. Life and career It is frequently written that Tew had family in Rhode Island dating back to 1640, but it is not known where he was born. He may have been born in New England; another hypothesis suggests that he was born in Maidford, Northamptonshire, England before emigrating to the American colonies as a child with his family, although there is only a little circumstantial evidence for this. He lived at one time in Newport, Rhode Island. He is reported as being married with two daughters. According to one source, his wife and children all greatly enjoyed the New York City social scene after Tew became rich, but there is no supporting evide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newport, Rhode Island
Newport is an American seaside city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island. It is located in Narragansett Bay, approximately southeast of Providence, Rhode Island, Providence, south of Fall River, Massachusetts, south of Boston, and northeast of New York City. It is known as a New England summer resort and is famous for its historic Newport Mansions, mansions and its rich sailing history. It was the location of the first U.S. Open tournaments in both US Open (tennis), tennis and US Open (golf), golf, as well as every challenge to the America's Cup between 1930 and 1983. It is also the home of Salve Regina University and Naval Station Newport, which houses the United States Naval War College, the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, and an important Navy training center. It was a major 18th-century port city and boasts many buildings from the Colonial history of the United States, Colonial era. The city is the county seat of Newport County, Rhode Island, Newport County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
