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Start of the great age of piracy in the Caribbean

When
1560
Where
Caribbean region
Episodes
1

The legacy row claims the great age of Caribbean piracy began around 1560, but supplied passages do not confirm this specific date or event. Sources instead reference the 'Golden Age' in the context of 1724 publications and 1690s developments, leaving the 1560 start date unsupported by the provided evidence.

Episodes

  1. 1560 (unverified) · Caribbean regionUnverified 1560 Start

    The legacy claim of a 1560 start for Caribbean piracy is not supported by the supplied passages, which focus on later periods and general definitions.

Background and detail

Date Verification. The seed year 1560 is not corroborated by the retrieved passages. The sources discuss piracy generally and reference the 'Golden Age' in relation to the 1724 publication of A General History of the Pyrates, which shaped public imagination of that era. No passage explicitly links the start of Caribbean piracy to 1560.

Sources

  1. Piracy Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-17

Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.