12-APR-1622 :- The Capture of Ormuz by the East India Company ends Portuguese control of Hormuz Island.

In the 1622 Capture of Ormuz, an Anglo-Persian force combined to take over the Portuguese garrison at Hormuz Island after a ten week siege, thus opening up Persian trade with England in the Persian Gulf.Before the capture of Ormuz, the Portuguese had held the Castle of Ormuz for more than a century, since 1507 when Afonso de Albuquerque established it in the Capture of Ormuz, giving them full control of the trade between India and Europe through the Persian Gulf."The capture of Ormuz by an Anglo-Persian force in 1622 entirely changed the balance of power and trade"