1630s in piracy
# 1630s in piracy

This timeline of the history of piracy in the 1630s is a chronological list of key events involving pirates between 1630 and 1639.

## Events

### 1631

* June 20 - Murat Reis the Younger executes the Sack of Baltimore where he captured 108 English planters and local Irish people. Almost all the villagers were put in irons and taken to a life of slavery in North Africa.
* December - Frances Knight is captured by Algerian corsairs and forced into slavery.
* Unknown - The Franco-Moroccan Treaty is signed between Louis XIII and Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik II, with contributions by Murat Reis the Younger.

### 1633

* August 12 - Cornelis Jol attacks Campeche, then owned by Spain.
* October 22 - Zheng Zhilong defeats a fleet of Dutch East India Company vessels in the Battle of Liaoluo Bay.
* Unknown - Samuel Axe, Abraham Blauvelt, and Sussex Cammock leave New Providence and sail for Honduras.

### 1635

* Unknown - Murat Reis the Younger is captured near the Tunisian coast by the Knights of Malta then subsequently imprisoned and tortured.

### 1636

* February 29 - Jacob Collaert and Mathieu Romboutsen were captured by Johan Evertsen after a five-hour battle.
* Unknown - The Spanish attack New Providence, prompting Samuel Axe to return and defend it.

### 1639

* Summer - Nathaniel Butler captures a Spanish frigate near the harbor of Trujillo and is later paid 16,000 pesos in ransom.
* Unknown - William Jackson enters service under the Providence Island Company.

## Births

### 1630

* February 27 - Roche Braziliano
* Unknown - Stenka Razin

### 1631

* Unknown - Isaac Rochussen

### 1632

* Unknown - Thomas Paine

### 1635

* Unknown - Nicholas van Hoorn
* Unknown - Henry Morgan

### 1637

* Unknown - Gustav Skytte

## Deaths

### 1637

* August - Jacob Collaert
