Golden Age of Piracy
c. 1650–c. 1730
Peak of pirate activity in the Caribbean and Atlantic.
- Type
- Era
- Date
- c. 1650–c. 1730
- Place
- Atlantic Ocean
Who was alive during Golden Age of Piracy
- Christiaan Huygens 1629–1695, astronomer
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632–1723, microscopist
- Christopher Wren 1632–1723, architect
- John Locke 1632–1704, philosopher
- Robert Hooke 1635–1703, scientist
- Henry Morgan c. 1635–1688, pirate
- Louis XIV 1638–1715, king
- Isaac Newton 1643–1727, scientist
- William Penn 1644–1718, religious leader
- Matsuo Bashō 1644–1694, poet
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646–1716, philosopher and mathematician
- Captain Kidd c. 1655–1701, pirate
- Henry Purcell 1659–1695, composer
- Daniel Defoe c. 1660–1731, writer
- Jonathan Swift 1667–1745, satirist
- Peter the Great 1672–1725, tsar
- Antonio Vivaldi 1678–1741, composer
- Blackbeard c. 1680–1718, pirate
- Vitus Bering 1681–1741, explorer
- Calico Jack 1682–1720, pirate
- George Frideric Handel 1685–1759, composer
- Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750, composer
- Daniel Fahrenheit 1686–1736, physicist
- Montesquieu 1689–1755, political philosopher