Event
Capture of Bahia: A Dutch West India Company fleet captures the Brazilian city of Salvador, Bahia from the Portuguese Empire (at this time in the Iberian Union)
8 May 1624 · 12.98° S, 38.49° W
What the records say
- When
- 8 May 1624
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 12.98° S, 38.49° W
Placed at the area around the town it links, Salvador, Bahia.
Summary
Capture of Bahia: A Dutch West India Company fleet captures the Brazilian city of Salvador, Bahia from the Portuguese Empire (at this time in the Iberian Union).
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- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “захват Салвадор-да-Баия голландцами”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page