Fall of Candia and Venice's Loss of Crete

Name: Fall of Candia and Venice's Loss of Crete
Start: 1645
End: 1669

Type Event Region Crete Time 1645–1669

In September 1669, after more than twenty years of siege, the Venetian garrison of Candia (modern Heraklion), capital of Venetian Crete, surrendered …

Timeline

1645–1668Candia Fortress · CreteFrom 1645 the Ottomans besieged Venetian-controlled Crete. The fortress of Candia held out for years under commanders including the jurist Francesco Morosini, with enormous losses on both sides, becoming a military focal point of European attention.
1669Candia · CreteWith supplies cut off and no hope of outside aid, Venice and the Ottomans reached a surrender agreement. The garrison withdrew with honors, Crete was incorporated into Ottoman territory, and Venice's territorial foothold in the Aegean was completely uprooted.

Sources

Setton, Kenneth M. Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century — Kenneth M. Setton (1991)
Encyclopaedia Britannica: Siege of Candia https://www.britannica.com/event/Siege-of-Candia