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The 1710s: 1710–1719
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Caribbean piracy peaked as crews like Blackbeard's blockaded Charleston in 1718, the year the pirate was killed off North Carolina. In London, the South Sea Company was being fattened for the bubble that would burst in 1720, and in Barcelona, Bourbon troops prepared the siege that would end Catalan self-rule in 1714.
Blackbeard's death in 1718 more or less ended the pirates' golden age. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag sails those waters from 1715, and Sánchez Piñol's Victus narrates the 1714 siege of Barcelona from the losing side. Open the 1710s on the StoryTerra map and explore its stories by place.
10 famous stories set in the 1710s
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Browse 9 books, 2 movies and 1 game set in the 1710s (1710–1719).
Prey
When danger threatens her camp the fierce and highly skilled Comanche warrior Naru sets out to protect her people. But the prey she stalks turns out to be a highly evolved alien predator with a technically advanced…
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever-and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling…
Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag
Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag begins in 1715, when pirates established a lawless republic in the Caribbean and ruled the land and seas. These outlaws paralyzed navies, halted international trade, and plundered vast…
Solomon's Gold
In the year 1714, the world is a most confused and unsteady place - especially London, center of finance, innovation, and conspiracy - when Daniel Waterhouse makes his less-than-triumphant return to England's shores.…
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder.On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the…
Oh-Oku: The Women Of The Inner Palace
The year is Seitoku 2 (1712) and Japan has a new ruler. But Ietsugu the 7th Tokugawa shogun is only four years old. The power vacuum this creates has Edo Castle roiling in political intrigue and personal positioning of…
A Conspiracy of Paper
Benjamin Weaver, a Jew and an ex-boxer, is an outsider in eighteenth-century London, tracking down debtors and felons for aristocratic clients. The son of a wealthy stock trader, he lives estranged from his family -…
On Stranger Tides
Aboard the Vociferous Carmichael, puppeteer John Chandagnac is sailing toward Jamaica to claim his stolen birthright from an unscrupulous uncle, when the vessel is captured . . . by pirates! Offered a choice by Captain…
The Rape of the Lock
A satirical poem that intentionally over-dramatizes an incident in which a lock of a woman's hair is cut without her permission.
Victus
«¡Lo contaré todo! Cómo jodieron al general Villarroel, cómo derrotaron nuestras victorias. Porque, hasta ahora, de aquella guerra solo he oído las versiones que vienen de arriba o del enemigo.» VICTUS es una novela…
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