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Captivity of Mangalorean Catholics at Seringapatam
The Captivity of Mangalorean Catholics at Seringapatam was the fifteen-year deportation of Kanara's Catholics by Tipu Sultan of Mysore, from 1784 until his death in 1799.
Capture and execution of José María Morelos
The capture and execution of José María Morelos were the November and December 1815 events in which royalist forces seized the leading commander of the Mexican War of Independence and shot him.
Capture and execution of Reynald of Châtillon
The capture and execution of Reynald of Châtillon (أسر رينالد شاتيون) followed the Battle of Hattin in 1187, when Saladin killed the lord of Kerak with his own hand.
Capture of Alamut
The Capture of Alamut was Hasan Sabbah's bloodless 1090 seizure of the Alamut fortress in northern Iran through infiltration and conversion, founding the Nizari Isma'ili state that held it until 1256.
Capture of Aleppo by Zengi
The Capture of Aleppo by Zengi was the entry of Imad al-Din Zengi, atabeg of Mosul, into Aleppo in January 1128, after which he annexed the city to his governorship.
Capture of Alkalawa
The Capture of Alkalawa was the 1808 storming and destruction of Alkalawa, capital of the Hausa state of Gobir in northern Nigeria, by the forces of Usman dan Fodio's Sokoto jihad.
Capture of Ambon (1605)
The capture of Ambon in February 1605 was the seizure of the Portuguese fort on Ambon by VOC Admiral Steven van der Haghen, allied with Hitu, giving the VOC its first territorial possession.
Capture of Amritsar by Ranjit Singh
In 1802, Ranjit Singh of the Sukerchakia misl captured Amritsar from the Bhangi misl led by Mai Sukhan, taking the Gobindgarh fort and the Zamzama cannon and gaining full control of the holy city.
Capture of Atahualpa at Cajamarca
The capture of Atahualpa at Cajamarca (Captura de Atahualpa en Cajamarca) was the seizure of the Inca emperor by Francisco Pizarro's soldiers in Peru on 16 November 1532.
Capture of Babylon (710 BC)
The capture of Babylon in 710 BC was Sargon II of Assyria's removal of Marduk-apla-iddina II, the Chaldaean chief known as Merodach-Baladan, from the Babylonian throne, followed by Sargon's enthronement.
Capture of Babylon by Tiglath-Pileser I
The capture of Babylon by Tiglath-Pileser I was an Assyrian attack on Babylonia in the early 11th century BC, in which Tiglath-Pileser I twice invaded and reached Babylon.
Capture of Babylon by Tiglath-Pileser III
The capture of Babylon by Tiglath-Pileser III in 729 BC saw the Assyrian king defeat Nabu-mukin-zeri, take the hands of Bel, and reign as Pulu.
Capture of Baghdad (1638)
The Capture of Baghdad (فتح بغداد) of 1638 was the recapture of Baghdad from Safavid Iran by Sultan Murad IV's Ottoman army after a forty-day siege.
Capture of Baldwin II
The Capture of Baldwin II (أسر بالدوين الثاني) was the taking prisoner of Baldwin II, king of Jerusalem, by the Artuqid emir Belek Ghazi in April 1123.
Capture of Berlin (1760)
The Capture of Berlin (1760), or Взятие Берлина, was the occupation of Prussia's capital by Russian forces under General Chernyshev during the Seven Years' War.
Capture of Carchemish
The Capture of Carchemish was the conquest in 717 BC of the Neo-Hittite kingdom of Carchemish by the Assyrian king Sargon II, who deported its last king, Pisiri.
Capture of Colonia del Sacramento (1777)
The Capture of Colonia del Sacramento (Colônia do Sacramento) was the surrender of the Portuguese city to Spanish forces under Pedro de Cevallos on 3 June 1777.
Capture of Damascus (1918)
The Capture of Damascus (دخول دمشق 1918) was the entry of British, Australian, and Hashemite Arab forces into Damascus on 1 October 1918, after the Ottoman collapse in Palestine.
Capture of Damascus (732 BC)
The capture of Damascus in 732 BC, also called the Assyrian conquest of Damascus, saw Tiglath-pileser III besiege the city for 45 days, defeat King Rezin, and annex Aram-Damascus.
Capture of Delhi by Vigraharaja IV
The capture of Delhi by Vigraharaja IV was the takeover of Delhi, the Tomara capital, by the Chauhan king Vigraharaja IV (Visaladeva) in the mid-twelfth century.
Capture of Demetrius II Nicator
The capture of Demetrius II Nicator was the defeat and imprisonment of the Seleucid king Demetrius II by the Parthians under Mithridates I in 138 BC.
Capture of Dur-Yakin
The capture of Dur-Yakin, or Fall of Dûr-Yakîn, was Sargon II's siege and destruction of the Chaldean prince Marduk-apla-iddina II's stronghold in southern Babylonia, 709–707 BC.
Capture of El Mayo
Capture of El Mayo: July 25, 2024 U.S. arrest of Sinaloa Cartel co-founder Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada García and Joaquín Guzmán López, delivered by abduction from Sinaloa; Zambada received a life sentence in 2026.
Capture of Emperor Tianzuo of Liao
The Capture of Emperor Tianzuo of Liao (金擒天祚帝，辽亡) was the seizure of the last Liao emperor, Yelü Yanxi, by Jin forces in 1125, ending the Liao dynasty.
Capture of Erivan
The Capture of Erivan, Russian Взятие Эривани, was the storming of the Erivan fortress (modern Yerevan) by Russian troops under General Paskevich on 1 October 1827.
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga
Capture of Fort Ticonderoga, May 10, 1775: Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys with Benedict Arnold seized the British fort on Lake Champlain bloodlessly, also taking Crown Point; its cannon went to Boston via Knox. Distinguished from the 1777 British recapture.
Capture of Guadeloupe (1759)
The Capture of Guadeloupe in 1759 was a British amphibious conquest of France's richest Caribbean island during the Seven Years' War, completed by May 1759.
Capture of Gungunhana
The Capture of Gungunhana was the seizure of Ngungunyane, the last emperor of the Gaza Empire in southern Mozambique, by a Portuguese column under Mouzinho de Albuquerque at Chaimite in 1895.
Capture of Ho Quy Ly
The capture of Ho Quy Ly in June 1407 saw Ming forces seize the retired emperor and his son, ending the Ho dynasty and beginning Ming rule in Vietnam.
Capture of Hormuz
The Capture of Hormuz (فتح هرمز) was the 1621–1622 seizure of Hormuz Island by Safavid Persia and the English East India Company, ending over a century of Portuguese control.