Here's a hundred year-old example used by the Oxford English Dictionary:

"1914 R. S. Tarr College Physiogr. i. xv. 566 Anything that accelerates headwater erosion on one side of a divide..gives opportunity for the pushing back of the divide and the possible capture of headwaters, or even of good-sized streams, by the successful river pirate."

For "river capture", it has an example from 1890.