* 1755 – Commodore William James captures the pirate fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of India.

Edward Teach ( c. 1680 – 22 November 1718 ), better known as Blackbeard, was a notorious English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of the American colonies.

An account of 1699 reveals a patchwork of private individuals, large Miskito family groups, Spanish settlements and pirate hideouts along the coast.

In 1538 Tripoli was reconquered by a pirate king called Khair ad-Din ( known more evocatively as Barbarossa, or Red Beard ) and the coast became renowned as the Barbary Coast.

His objectives included finding the source of the West African gold trade and the legendary Christian kingdom of Prester John, and stopping the pirate attacks on the Portuguese coast.

The small island of Nosy Boroha off the northeastern coast of Madagascar has been proposed by some historians as the site of the legendary pirate utopia of Libertalia.

* 1718 – Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach ( best known as " Blackbeard ") is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard.

Strategically located on the Pacific coast, Panama City was relatively free of the permanent menace of pirates that roamed the Atlantic coast for over one and a half century, until it was destroyed by a devastating fire, when the pirate Henry Morgan sacked it on January 28, 1671.

During the 1st century BC, there were pirate states along the Anatolian coast, threatening the commerce of the Roman Empire in the eastern Mediterranean.

Toward the end of the 9th century, Moor pirate havens were established along the coast of southern France and northern Italy.

Less tolerated by local Caribbean officials, buccaneers increasingly turned to legal work or else joined regular pirate crews who sought plunder in the Indian Ocean, the east coast of North America, or West Africa as well as in the Caribbean.

On Nosy Boraha, a small island off the northeastern coast of Madagascar, Captain Misson and his pirate crew allegedly founded the famous pirate utopia of Libertalia in the late 17th century.

But he was less successful in negotiating with Geiseric, the king of the Vandals, who was once again launching pirate attacks on the Italian coast.

Pinnes, the son of Agron and Agron's first wife Triteuta, officially succeeds his father as king, but the kingdom is effectively ruled by Agron's second wife, Queen Teuta ( Tefta ), who expels the Greeks from the Illyrian coast and then launches Illyrian pirate ships into the Ionian Sea, preying on Roman shipping.

Against Maurice's complaints, the States General under Johan van Oldenbarneveldt had ordered Maurice to take the army, march south along the coast and take the pirate nest of Dunkirk.

From April 91, 1960 the pirate radio station Radio Veronica broadcast its programmes from an anchorage in the North Sea about four miles off the Scheveningen coast.

He sailed away from the Netherlands as a legal pirate captain, in the possession of pirate letters, but soon he began to ship their own account to conquer the English Channel, the Mediterranean, the African-Atlantic coast into the Caribbean to.

During his British visit, on July 16, 1967, Feliciano gave a live performance on the pirate radio stations Radio 227 and Radio 355, on board the MV Laissez Faire off the British coast, less than a month before the stations were due to be closed by the UK's Marine Broadcasting Offences Act.

* In 1780 a pirate flag was captured in battle off the North African coast by Lt Richard Curry, who later became an admiral.

An angry pirate therefore posed a greater danger to merchant ships than an angry Spanish coast guard or privateer vessel.

Because of this, although, like pirate ships, Spanish coast guard vessels and privateers were almost always stronger than the merchant ships they attacked, merchant ships may have been more willing to attempt resisting these " legitimate " attackers than their piratical

The show takes place on the Pearl Islands, off the coast of Panama, and had a pirate culture theme.

** Thomas Shirley, English pirate ( d. 1620 )

* September – Thomas Tew, English pirate

* Thomas Howard ( pirate ) ( fl.

As admiral, he also encouraged piracy, after bidding to capture the pirate Thomas Walton, Thomas Walton instead made an agreement for a share of all booty seized by him.

The most famous pirate who made Newport his base was Thomas Tew.

The gallery below showing pirate flags in use from 1693 ( Thomas Tew's ) to 1724 ( Edward Low's ) appears in multiple extant works on the history of piracy.

Other viceroys, such as Fernando Torres, Borja y Aragón, Fernández de Cabrera or Fernández Córdoba also expanded the colonial navy and fortified the ports to fight against pirate attacks, as those led by the Englishman Thomas Cavendish.

The graveyard of Gulval church is home to the remains of local pirate and smuggler John ' Eyebrows ' Thomas of Marazion.

Thomas ' brother James, outlawed for an attack on his father, spent some years as a pirate in the northern islands, escaped by volunteering for military service in the Low Countries and was drawn and quartered there for insubordination.

Shortly after the beginning of building work on the colony of Libertalia, the Victoire ran into the pirate Thomas Tew, who decided to accompany them back to Libertalia.

Shortly a pirate version of the verses appeared, published by Thomas Thorpe, under the title The Odcombian Banquet ( 1611 ).

* Thomas Green ( captain ) ( 1679 / 80 – 1705 ), English sailor and alleged pirate, hanged in Scotland

* January-French pirate Jean Hamlin takes the British ship Thomas and William, Richard North commander, near the Isle of Ash, off Hispaniola.

An attack in 1684 by the Spanish pirate Thomas Jingle led to the final abandonment of the island.

Before being elected President, Jefferson had opposed funds for a Navy to be used for anything more than a coastal defense, however the continued pirate attacks on American shipping interests in the Atlantic and Mediterranean and the systematic kidnapping of American crew members could no longer be ignored.

The first records of his life date from 1689, when he was a member of a French-English pirate crew that sailed in the Caribbean.

Here he found the first pirate of his voyage, Robert Culliford, ( the same man who had stolen Kidd ’ s ship years before ) and his crew aboard the Mocha Frigate.

As the likelihood of having the barbarian move closer to Catan is very high, a variant in common usage is that the robber ( and with Seafarers, the pirate ) does not move until the first barbarian attack, nor can a knight move the robber before that point.

The first contacts with the African slave market were made by expeditions to ransom Portuguese subjects enslaved by pirate attacks on Portuguese ships or villages.

He had a very successful exhibition of paintings at the Calmann Gallery in London in 1938 and his first book, the self-illustrated children's pirate romance Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor ( based on a story he had written around 1936 ) was first published in 1939 by Country Life.

* March 29 – Radio Caroline becomes England's first pirate radio station, from a ship anchored just outside UK territorial waters.

* Ayn Rand included in her book Atlas Shrugged a character who is a modern-day Scandinavian pirate, to whom she gave the first name " Ragnar ".

The first record of such a government aboard a pirate sloop dates to the 17th century.

The first permanent European settlements on the island were constructed around 1816 by the pirate Louis-Michel Aury as a base of operations to support Mexico's rebellion against Spain.

On December 14, 1818, the French privateer Hipólito Bouchard, sailing under the flag of the " United Provinces of Rio de la Plata " ( Argentina ), brought his ships La Argentina and Santa Rosa to within sight of the Mission ; aware that Bouchard ( today known as " California's only pirate ") had recently conducted raids on the settlements at Monterey and Santa Barbara, Comandante Ruíz had sent forth a party of thirty men ( under the leadership of a young Spanish lieutenant named Santiago Argüello ) to protect the Mission at first news of the approach on the 13th.

His roles include Brutus in Julius Caesar ( 1953 ), Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel and The Desert Rats, the amoral valet turned spy in Joseph Mankiewicz's 5 Fingers, the declining actor in the first remake of A Star Is Born ( 1954 ), Captain Nemo in 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( also 1954 ), a small town school teacher driven insane by the effects of cortisone in Bigger Than Life ( 1956 ), a suave master spy in North by Northwest ( 1959 ), a determined explorer in Journey to the Center of the Earth ( also 1959 ), Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita ( 1962 ), a river pirate who betrays Peter O ' Toole's character in Lord Jim ( 1965 ), the evil Doctor Polidori in Frankenstein: The True Story ( 1973 ), the vampire's servant, Richard Straker, in Salem's Lot, and surreal Royal Navy Captain Hughes in Yellowbeard ( 1983 ).

AK1200 was also the first U. S. DJ to play on U. K. pirate radio, alongside Swift and DJ Zinc on Format FM.

For his first, he wrote about the seventeenth century pirate John Ward aka Jack Ward.

One of the first major settlements in the area that is now Galveston County was the town of Campeche on Galveston Island, created by the pirate Jean Lafitte.

One of the parish's first communities and a social haunt of the pirate Jean Lafitte, Edgard has been the parish seat since 1848.

At several points, in an attempt to move into Mattel and Hasbro territory, Matchbox produced dolls, first a line of pirate dolls for younger school-age boys, and later baby dolls for pre-school girls.

The first level of the game on the Gangplank Galleon pirate world.

Unlike the previous installment, which featured a pirate high-seas adventure theme, this game has more of a mix between a mechanical theme ( especially the technological island of Mekanos ) and a generic theme similar to the first game, but unlike Donkey Kong Countrys often tropical sceneries, this game features locations much more similar to northern maritime and continental climates, including the presence of evergreen and deciduous forests, snowy mountains, cliffs, waterfalls and a group of allies called Brothers Bear.

* Captain Crook – A pirate who first appeared in July 1970 ( unofficial debut of McDonaldland ) and is similar in appearance to the famed Captain Hook from Disney's 1953 movie Peter Pan.

Kinmen was first named Jīnmén ( 金門 ; lit, " golden gate ") in Chinese 1387 when the Hongwu Emperor of China's Ming Dynasty appointed a military officer to administer the island and protect it from wokou ( pirate ) attacks.

Beginning in 1964 the first in what became a fleet of 10 offshore pirate radio stations began to ring the British coastline.

Peter Lamborn Wilson ( born 1945 ) ( pseudonym Hakim Bey ), is an American political writer, essayist, and poet, known for first proposing the concept of the Temporary Autonomous Zone ( TAZ ), based, in part, on a historical review of pirate utopias.

* Nate-crew member who at first glance looks most like a pirate: hulking, fearsome, with a massive and impenetrable black beard.