Full Name: Edward Teach or Edward Thatch
Profession:Pirate

Nationality:

Biography: Notorious English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of the American colonies.

Blackbeard became the inspiration for a number of pirate-themed works of fiction across a range of genres.

Born:c. 1680
Birthplace: Bristol, England

Died:November 22,1718
Cause of Death:Killed in battle

• 1717-11-28 Blackbeard attacks and captures a French merchant slave ship, which he renames as his flagship the "Queen Anne's Revenge"
• 1717-12-05 English pirate Blackbeard ransacks the merchant sloop "Margaret" and keeps her captain, Henry Bostock, prisoner for 8 hours before releasing him. Bostock later provides the first record of Blackbeard's appearance and the source for his name

• Bartholomew Roberts
• Fletcher Christian
• Francis Drake
• Mary Read
• Piet Heyn
• William Kidd