The first worldwide manhunt in history was for a pirate — and it failed.

1695

Henry Every robbed the Mughal emperor's ship in 1695 and vanished with his loot; his fate is unknown.

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• Henry Every seizes the Ganj-i-Sawai1695 · Arabian Sea off Surat. In September 1695 the English pirate Henry Every captured a ship of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb returning from Mecca. The haul was so vast that the East India Company and the English crown launched history's first worldwide manhunt. Every was never caught.

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