April 18 - Captain Thomas Anstis with 70 men and a brigantine deserts Bartholomew Roberts to start his own piratical career.
June 13 -
George Lowther leads a mutiny aboard the Gambia Castle, renames her the Happy Delivery, and draws up
articles of piracy for his crew.
August -
Bartholomew Roberts captures the Onslow at Sestos, near
Cape Coast Castle.[3] Roberts shifts his flag aboard the Onslow, renaming her the Royal Fortune.
Undated (August or later) - Roberts' men attack and disperse 2,000 local tribesmen at
Calabar.
^Johnson, Charles (1724). A general history of the robberies and murders of the most notorious pyrates, and also their policies, discipline and government, from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, in 1717, to the present Year 1724. London. pp. 311–316.
^Johnson, Charles (1724). A general history of the robberies and murders of the most notorious pyrates, and also their policies, discipline and government, from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, in 1717, to the present Year 1724. London. p. 275.
^Gosse, Philip (1924). The Pirates' Who's Who: Giving Particulars of the Lives & Deaths of the Pirates & Buccaneers. New York: Burt Franklin.