Dutch Capture of Salvador (Bahia) (1624)

Name: Dutch Capture of Salvador (Bahia) (1624)
Start: 1624
End: 1625

Type Event Region South America Time 1624–1625

In May 1624 a Dutch West India Company fleet under Jacob Willekens captured Salvador (Bahia), the capital of Portuguese Brazil, in the first major Du…

Timeline

1624Bay of All Saints · BahiaJacob Willekens arrived in the Bay of All Saints with 26 Dutch West India Company ships and about 3,300 soldiers, landing on May 9–10 and besieging Salvador.
1624City of Salvador · BahiaPortuguese resistance was slight; Salvador fell on May 10 and Governor Diogo de Menezes Furtado was captured. The Dutch immediately took over the city's defenses and the sugar trade network, but the occupation did not last, foreshadowing the Iberian reconquest of 1625.

Sources

Capture of Bahia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Bahia
The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World — Wim Klooster (2016)