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EVENTS


  • Africa

  • ---May - Jean Hamlin raids shipping off the coast of Sierra Leone capturing English and Dutch ships. Later that year Hamlin's band split into separate bands with Hamlin returning to the Caribbean . Arriving in St. Thomas in late 1683 or early 1684 Hamlin's ship La Trompeuse was burned in the island's harbor by English naval officer Captain Carlile commanding the HMS Francis . Hamlin would be granted refuge in St. Thomas by Danish Governor Adolf Esmit until his removal by the English in October 1684.



BIRTHS


DEATHS

  • May/June - Nicholas van Hoorn, Dutch privateer