Renaissance · Middle East · War

1622

Persia Recaptures Hormuz

1622

Shah Abbas of Persia, aided by an English East India Company fleet, besieged and took the Portuguese island-fortress of Hormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf. Portuguese domination of the Gulf, begun a century earlier by Afonso de Albuquerque, was finished. Persian trade flowed through the new port of Bandar Abbas.

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Before and after in Middle East

Before: 1602: Safavid Shah Abbas Recaptures Bahrain
After: 1629: Shah Abbas the Great Dies

Before and after in War

Before: May 1621: Banda Islands Massacre
After: 1623: Amboyna Massacre

Era

Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.