1698 in piracy

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Events[]

• December 8 - William III of England issues his 1698 Act of Grace.

Indian Ocean[]

• January 30 - Captain William Kidd plunders the Quedagh Merchant, an Armenian merchant vessel sailing under French passes, near the Malabar Coast.
• April - Kidd encounters Robert Culliford's pirate vessel 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).
• September - Culliford and Dirk Chivers plunder the .

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