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a Chinese merchant, pirate and military leader in the late Ming dynasty who later defected to the Qing dynasty. A convert to Christianity, Zhilon collaborated with Dutch forces, helping to create a monopoly on trade with Japan.
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10/22/1633-Battle of Liaoluo Bay ends; Chinese pirate Zheng Zhilong defeats an alliance of Dutch East India Company vessels and junks commanded by pirate Liu Xiang.
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Koxinga
...born in Hirado, Japan to the Chinese merchant/pirate Zheng Zhilong and his Japanese wife Tagawa Matsu, and who died...
Li Dan
...Following his death, Li Dan's business was inherited by Zheng Zhilong, along with his role in the community.
Zheng Jing
...warlord. The eldest son of Koxinga and grandson of Zheng Zhilong, he succeeded his father as ruler of Tainan and briefly...
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Zheng Zhilong16041623
 
16451661

Sampson Denballunknown1624
 
 
1624unknown
 traveled to Tunisia, converted to Islam and made ??several raids, arrested in 1624 and sent to th...
Filips van Zuylenunknown1624
 
 
1624unknown
 As part of the Groot Desseyn plan, he was particularly active against the Portuguese in West Afri...
Hendrik Worstunknown1624
 
 
1624unknown
 Dutch corsair who accompanied Pieter Schouten in his expedition to the West Indies.
Joost van Dykunknown1615
 
16251631 ca
 a Dutch privateer (and, reportedly, sometime pirate) who was one of the earliest European settler...
Pieter Schoutenunknown1622
 
16251625
 a 17th-century Dutch corsair and privateer. He was one of the first Dutchmen to explore to the Ca...
Willem Jacobszoonunknown1624
 
 
1625unknown
 Dutch corsair who accompanied Pieter Schouten on one of the first major expeditions to the West I...
Claes Gerritszoon Compaen15871621
 
16271660, Feb 25
 a 17th-century Dutch corsair and merchant. Dissatisfied as a privateer for the Dutch Republic, he...
Brother Francesco Carafaunknown1625
 
 
1627unknown
 Knight of Malta. Captain General of Galleys
Hendrick Jacobszoon Lucifer15831627
 
 
16271627
 a Dutch-born pirate. Hendrick's last name, Lucifer, referred to a lighting stick, not to the fall...
Dirck Simonszoon van Uitgeestunknown1628/29
 
 
1628/29unknown
 Dutch corsair who commanded a WIC expedition to Brazil bringing back over 12 Portuguese and Spani...
Jan Janszoon15701600
 
16291641 ca
 one of the most succesful corsairs of the Mediterranean sea. Like so many Dutch pirates Jan, of t...
Li Danunknown1600
 
16291625
 a prominent early 17th century Chinese merchant originally from Quanzhou in Fujian province. Li o...
Piet Hein1577, Nov 251607
 
16291629, Jun 18
 a Dutch admiral and privateer for the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years' War between the Uni...
Henry Chandlerunknown1610
 
1629unknown
 Born in Devonshire, his father kept a chandler's shop in Southwark. An English renegado at Algier...
Jan Jacobsen1588/891610
 
16291622
 a Flemish naval commander and Dunkirker during the Eighty Years' War. He became a posthumous hero...
John Browneunknown1620
 
1629unknown
 An English sailor who joined the Barbary pirates at Algiers and turned Mohammedan. Taken in the E...
Balduino Enricounknown1620
 
16291626 ca
 a Dutch privateer who starred in the famous assault to Puerto Rico of 1625. Baudouin Enrico is th...
Pedro de la Plesaunknown1620
 
1629unknown
 a 17th-century Spanish privateer. He served as a Dunkirker in the service of the Spanish Crown du...
Captain Samsonunknown1620
 
1629unknown
 English pirate who was active in the seventeenth century. Captured the ship the Vergulde Leeuw, C...
Dirck Simonszoon van Uitgeest1590 ca1620
 
16291635 ca
 Dutch pirate, he worked at the northern coast of South America. Challenged the Spanish and Portug...
Jan Marinus van Sommelsdijkunknown1620
 
1629unknown
 Former Dutch privateer turned Barbary corsair. He attacked the Dutch ship St. Jan Babtista under ...
Villa Riseunknown1620
 
1629unknown
 In the year 1621 this Moorish pirate commanded a small squadron of five vessels which took an Eng...
Dierick Ruyters unknown1618
 
1630unknown
 
Pieter Adriaanszoon Ita15971628
 
 
16301638
 a 17th-century Dutch corsair and privateer. He was also an admiral in the Dutch West India Compan...
Hendrick Corneliszoon Loncqunknown1628
 
 
1630unknown
 
Jan Gijsbertszoon Booneterunknown1630
 
 
16301640 ca
 pirate attacking Spanish ships and colonies of the Caribbean. ..... Dutch pirate, he worked in...
John Downesunknown1631
 
 
1631unknown
 raided the south of Cornwall.
Jonathan de Neckere unknown1631
 
 
1631unknown
 
John Nuttunknown1620
 
1632unknown
 a 17th-century English pirate. He was one of the more notorious brigands of his time raiding the ...
Dixie Bullunknown1631
 
 
16321632 ca
 an English sea captain, and the first pirate known to prey on shipping off the New England coast,...
Jan Janszoon van Hoornunknown1629
 
 
1633 unknown
 
Gabrielle Chambres de Boisbaudrantunknown1634
 
 
16341640 ca
 Knight of Malta ... French, Maltese knight and pirate. He was killed by the Ottoman galley at...
David Jonesunknown1634
 
 
1634unknown
 
Elizabetha Patricksonunknown1634
 
 
1634unknown
 The poignant case of Elizabetha Patrickson and her husband William is in the same vein. The coupl...
Johannes van Walbeeck16021634
 
 
16341649+
 a Dutch navigator and cartographer during a 1620s circumnavigation of the earth, an admiral of th...
Sussex Camockunknown1625
 
 
1635unknown
 an English privateer who was involved in establishing the Providence Island colony, a Puritan col...
Liu Xiangunknown1620
 
16361636
 
Jacob Collaartunknown1625
 
 
16371637
 a Flemish admiral who served as privateer and one of the Dunkirkers in Spanish Habsburg service d...
William Cobbunknown1635
 
 
1637unknown
 Privateer
Michiel Dorneunknown1638
 
 
1638unknown
 
Jacob Willekens1564/711590
 
16391633/1649
 a Dutch admiral on a fleet to the Dutch Indies, and a herring seller, who went to sea again at th...
Nathaniel Butler1577/781619
 
1639 unknown
 an English privateer who later served as the colonial governor of Bermuda during the early 17th c...
Moses Cohen Henriquesunknown1620
 
1639unknown
 a Dutch pirate of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish origin active in the Caribbean against Spain and Br...
Jan van Ryenunknown1620
 
1639unknown
 a 17th-century Dutch privateer, explorer, and colonist. He was granted a commission by the Dutch ...
Filips van Dorp1587 ca1630
 
 
16391652 ca
 Lieutenant-Admiral of Zeeland in 1632. He became the Lieutenant- Admiral of Holland and West-Frie...
Jan Evertsen1600, Feb 11630
 
 
16391666, Aug 5
 a Dutch admiral during the 17th century. His greatest successes were in 1628 preventing the inter...
Thomas Gaynerunknown1630
 
 
1639unknown
 English privateer who received a commission of Prince Frederick Henry of Orange in 1633. Gayner w...
Cornelis Janszoon de Haanunknown1630
 
 
1639unknown
 Dutch privateer in the seventeenth century. Captain of a men-of-war that was engaged with two pri...
Melis Karelsznunknown1630
 
 
1639unknown
 Privateer in the 17th century who operated from Oostende. In the summer of 1634 he was steersman ...
Captain Petitunknown1630
 
 
1639unknown
 French filibuster. Of San Domingo. In 1634 was in command of Le Ruze, crew of forty men and...
Mathieu Romboutsenunknown1630
 
 
1639unknown
 Dutch corsair in the service of Spain. Was part of a three ship squadron under Jacques Colaert an...
Daniel Elfrithunknown1607
 
16411641
 a 17th-century English privateer, colonist and slave trader. In the service of the Earl of Warwic...
Hendrik Brouwer15811606
 
16431643, Aug 7
 a Dutch explorer, admiral, and colonial administrator both in Japan and the Dutch East Indies. He...
Samuel Axeunknown1629
 
1645unknown
 an English privateer in Dutch service during the early 17th century. In 1635, he accepted Dutch l...
William Rousunknown1631
 
16451645
 a 17th-century English privateer in the service of the Providence Island Company. He started as a...
William Jackson [1]unknown1639
 
1645unknown
 an English privateer who, based in Guanaja and Roatan, was in the service of the Providence Islan...
Thomas Cromwell [2]unknown1643
 
1645unknown
 
Cornelius Corneliszoon Jol15971620
 
16491641, Oct 31
 a 17th-Century Dutch corsair and admiral in the Dutch West India Company during the Eighty Years'...
Captain James [2]unknown1630
 
1649unknown
 A buccaneer captain who was in 1640 temporarily appointed "President" of Tortuga Island by the Pr...
Francisco Díaz Pimientaunknown1630
 
1649unknown
 Spanish privateer and general in the Spanish army. He commanded the Spanish fleet that attacked a...
James Riskinnerunknown1630
 
1649unknown
 a 17th-century English privateer who operated from Providence Island against Spanish shipping dur...
William Rudyerdunknown1630
 
1649unknown
 Muster master General of the Island of Providence colony from 1630 - 1634. In 1634 he returned to...
Frederico Langravio d'Assiaunknown1640
 
16491645 ca
 Knight of Malta. Captain General of the Galleys..... Probably pirate Italian and Maltese knigh...
Don Antonio Maldonado de Texedaunknown1640
 
1649unknown
 Privateer who commanded a Spanish fleet that included two generals of the Brazil fleet: Don Juan ...
Pierre Paulusenunknown1640
 
1649unknown
 Dutch privateer employed by Spain. On 30 May 1644 he captured a Dutch hooker ship and ransomed it...
Catalina de Erausounknown1585
 
1650unknown
 a one-time nun who subsequently travelled around Spain and Spanish America, mostly under male ide...
Jean Le Vasseur unknown1642
 
1652 unknown
 
Willem Albertse Blaeuveltunknown1643
 
1656unknown
 From 1643 to 1656 we find many references to the Capetyn in the documentary history of the Colony...
Rupertunknown1640
 
1659unknown
 After an adventurous life as a soldier on the Continent, he sailed from Ireland in 1648 with seve...
Abraham Blauvelt1600 ca1630
 
16631663 ca
 a Dutch privateer and explorer mapping much of Central America in the 1630s, after whom both the ...
Cornelis Evertsen the Elder1610, Aug 41626
 
16661666, Jun 11
 a Dutch admiral. In 1626 Cornelis is first mentioned as actually serving on sea, during a private...
Major Samuel Smithunknown1640
 
1669unknown
 Buccaneer. At one time a buccaneer with the famous Mansfield. In 1641 he was sent, by the Governo...
Grillo Diego unknown1620
 
1673unknown
  Spanish but worked for the French, Hanged
Diego Grillounknown1639
 
16731673
 There are relatively few historical records of Diego el mulato Grillo, and they are not all consi...
Pierre Le Grandunknown1620 or 1660
 
1680unknown
 a French buccaneer of the 17th century. He is known to history only from one source, Alexandre Ex...
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