1698 in piracy
# 1698 in piracy

See also 1697 in piracy, 1699 in piracy, and Timeline of piracy.

## Events

* December 8 – William III of England issues his 1698 Act of Grace.

### Indian Ocean

* January 30 – Captain William Kidd plunders the Quedagh Merchant, an Armenian merchant vessel sailing under French passes, near the Malabar Coast.
* April – Kidd encounters Robert Culliford's pirate vessel Mocha Frigate at Île Sainte-Marie. Most of Kidd's crew desert to Culliford. Kidd burns the Adventure Galley and takes his remaining crew aboard the Adventure Prize (ex-Quedagh Merchant).
* September – Culliford and Dirk Chivers plunder the Great Muhammed.

### North America

* Undated – Canoot attacks and steals John Redwood's ship then raids the town of Lewes the next day.
* Undated – William Cotter and his former shipmate John Blackmore are convicted of piracy but receive no punishment.

### South America

* Undated – Anne Dieu-le-Veut is released from Colombia after being captured by Spain.

## Births

* Charles Harris

## Deaths

* Robert Colley
* Richard Glover
* Robert Glover
