1700s

A list of events in the 1700s, otherwise known as the Eighteenth Century, related to Pirates of the Caribbean.

1704

 * Unknown date – the Whale and Waterspout founded by S. Garrett in Port Royal.

1717

 * February – Samuel Bellamy in the Sultana takes the Whydah near Jamaica and keeps it for his own use.
 * April 27 - The Whydah founders in a storm off Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Samuel Bellamy and all but nine of his men are drowned.
 * September 5 - King George I of Great Britain issues a royal decree, known as the Act of Grace pardoning all pirates who surrender to the appointed authorities by September 5, 1718.
 * November 28 - Edward Teach captures the French slave ship La Concorde near Martinique. He keeps the ship and renames her Queen Anne's Revenge.

1718

 * November 22 – Edward "Blackbeard" Teach raided the Carolina coast. He later clashed with members of the British Royal Navy at Ocracoke Inlet. Note: In real-world history, Blackbeard was killed and beheaded in this battle. But according to dialogue in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, it is implied that his death was only legend and that he managed to escape this fate in the world of Pirates of the Caribbean.
 * December 10 – the pirate captain Stede Bonnet was hanged in Charleston.

1750

 * Unknown date – The Quest for the Fountain of Youth took place, with the Queen Anne's Revenge crew, the Providence crew and the Spanish attempting to find the Fountain of Youth.

Unknown dates

 * New Orleans founded by the French.
 * Kanhoji Angria blockaded Bombay port and extracted ransom from the East India Trading Company.