January 30 – Captain William Kidd plunders the Quedagh Merchant, an Armenian merchant vessel sailing under French passes, near the Malabar Coast.^[2]
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).^[2]
September – Culliford and Dirk Chivers plunder the Great Muhammed.^[3]

Undated – Canoot attacks and steals John Redwood's ship^[4] then raids the town of Lewes the next day.^[5]
Undated – William Cotter and his former shipmate John Blackmore are convicted of piracy but receive no punishment.^[6]

Undated – Anne Dieu-le-Veut is released from Colombia after being captured by Spain.^[7]

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