1722 in piracy

Events

Atlantic Ocean

Caribbean Sea

• March - seized and robbed by Spanish subjects.
• March–April - Matthew Luke, Spanish guardacostas, plunders four British vessels, killing all aboard.
• May - Luke captured by, and brought to Jamaica. He is later hanged there with all but seven of his crew.

  Indian Ocean

West Africa

• February 5 - Bartholomew Roberts' consort vessel, Ranger, captured by Chaloner Ogle.
• February 10 - Roberts' ship,, was overtaken and defeated by Ogle in. Roberts was killed and his crew captured.
• March 28 - 54 of Roberts' pirates are sentenced to death at Cape Coast Castle.

  Deaths