A list of events in the 1700s, otherwise known as the Eighteenth Century, related to Pirates of the Caribbean.

EventsEdit

1704Edit

• Unknown date – the Whale and Waterspout established by S. Garrett in Port Royal.^[1]

1717Edit

• February – Samuel Bellamy in the Sultana takes the Whydah near Jamaica and keeps it for his own use.
• April 27 - The Whydah founders in a storm off Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Samuel Bellamy and all but nine of his men are drowned.
• September 5 - King George I of Great Britain issues a royal decree, known as the Act of Grace pardoning all pirates who surrender to the appointed authorities by September 5, 1718.
• November 28 - Edward Teach captures the French slave ship La Concorde near Martinique. He keeps the ship and renames her Queen Anne's Revenge.

1718Edit

• Unknown date – New Orleans founded by the French.
• Unknown date – Kanhoji Angria blockaded Bombay port and extracted ransom from the East India Trading Company.
• November 22 – Edward "Blackbeard" Teach raided the Carolina coast. He later clashed with members of the British Royal Navy at Ocracoke Inlet. Note: In real-world history, Blackbeard was killed and decapitated by a lieutenant in this battle.^[2] But according to dialogue in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, it is implied that his death was only legend in the Pirates of the Caribbean world.^[3]
• December 10 – the pirate captain Stede Bonnet was hanged in Charleston.

1750Edit

• Unknown date – The Quest for the Fountain of Youth took place, with the Queen Anne's Revenge crew, the Providence crew and the Spanish attempting to find the Fountain of Youth.^[4]

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