Capture of Hormuz
The end of Portuguese dominance in the Persian Gulf
From 1515 the Portuguese held a fortress on the island of Hormuz and controlled the trade of the Persian Gulf. In 1622 the forces of Shah Abbas I, backed by ships of the English East India Company, took the island after a two-month siege. Trade moved to a new mainland port, Bandar Abbas, and the English and Dutch began to push the Portuguese aside in the Indian Ocean.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1598 Edict of Nantes — 24 years earlier
- 1600 East India Company founded — 22 years earlier
- 1610 Galileo's telescopic discoveries — 12 years earlier
- 1618–1648 Thirty Years' War — 4 years earlier
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1598–1613 Time of Troubles — 24 years earlier
- 1612 Minin and Pozharsky liberate Moscow — 10 years earlier
- 1613 Election of Michael Romanov as Tsar — 9 years earlier
Africa
- 1624–1663 Nzinga becomes Queen of Ndongo — 2 years later
Asia
- 1600 Battle of Sekigahara — 22 years earlier
- 1632–1653 Building of the Taj Mahal — 10 years later
- 1644 Fall of the Ming, rise of the Qing — 22 years later
Americas
- 1600 Eruption of Huaynaputina — 22 years earlier
- c. 1605–1694 Quilombo of Palmares — 17 years earlier
- 1607 Founding of Jamestown — 15 years earlier
- 1609 Jesuit reductions among the Guaraní — 13 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Galileo Galilei (aged 58)
- René Descartes (aged 26)
- Rembrandt (aged 16)
- James I (aged 56)
- Johannes Kepler (aged 51)
- Abbas the Great (aged 51)
- Nur Jahan (aged 45)
- Ferdinand II (aged 44)
- Tokugawa Hidetada (aged 43)
- Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba (aged 39)