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Blackbeard is Born
It's unknown the exact date, but Blackbeard was born sometime around this date. -
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Queen Annes War
Blackbeard served in Queen Annes War as a privateer, though it is unknown his exact time served. -
Blackbeard Turns to Piracy
After the end of Queen Anne's War, Blackbeard wishes to continue his high-seas theft. He moves to New Providence. -
Blackbeard is Given His First Ship
Benjamin Hornigold, another pirate residing on New Providence Island, gives Blackbeard a sloop and makes him captain to some of his men. The descent into piracy begins for Blackbeard. -
Stede Bonnet Joins Blackbeard
Stede Bonnet meets Blackbeard and Hornigold. Bonnet temporarily cedes command of the Revenge to Blackbeard. -
Blackbeard Acquires His Flagship
Le Concorde is captured by Blackbeard and his crew. The ship is taken as a prize and is renamed the Queen Anne's Revenge, named after the war Blackbeard served in. -
Blackbeard Blockades Charles Towne (Modern Day Charleston)
Blackbeard and a fleet of ships blockade Charles Towne (Now Charleston) and kidnap several residents, demanding medicine in return for their lives. He and his fleet ransacked several inbound/outbound merchant ships -
The Queen Anne's Revenge Runs Aground
Blackbeard, while careening the Queen Anne’s Revenge, ran it aground and abandoned it. He instead rode the sloop the Adventure. This may have been an intentional move to get rid of the ship that had just become so famous for blockading Charleston, or was an embarrassing accident -
Pardons are Offered to All Pirates
Pardons for the crimes of piracy are issued in order to curb piracy. Blackbeard would consider, but ultimately not take the pardon, due to the fine print: the crimes pardoned for were committed BEFORE January 5th, which the Charleston bonanza was not. Teach had a plan, however. -
Blackbeard Uses Stede Bonnet as a Decoy
To test whether the pardon would work even with the Charleston fiasco, Stede Bonnet would agree to the pardon, which was successful. Upon returning a pardoned man, Teach had marooned Stede's men, run their ship aground, and taken all of their booty. Stede would later return to piracy and was caught for his crimes on this date. -
Black Beard Meets His End
Blackbeard finally meets his end and is killed during a battle with Robert Maynard off the coast of Ocracoke Island. He sustained five gunshot wounds and twenty cutlass slashes before death. His head is lopped off at the neck and hung from the bowsprit of Maynard's ship.