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Bartolomeu Dias [pron 1] (c. 1450 – 29 May 1500) was a Portuguese mariner and explorer. In 1488, he became the first European navigator to round the southern tip of Africa and to demonstrate that the most effective southward route for ships lies in the open ocean, well to the west of the African coast.
Bartolomeu Dias (c.1450–1500) is known as the first European to sail around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, finding the eastern sea route to the Indian Ocean. Christopher Columbus (1451–1506). Famous Genoese explorer, known for "discovering" America in 1492, although he believed the landmass was a part of Asia.
Pero de Alenquer was a 15th-century Portuguese explorer of the African coast. [1] He was born in Alenquer and accompanied Bartolomeu Dias on his journey around the Cape of Good Hope in 1487 and 1488. [2]
Cross of Bartholomew Dias at Cape of Good Hope. Inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope dubbed Cafres by the Portuguese (Códice Casanatense, c. 1540) In the Early Modern Era, the first European to reach the cape was the Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias on 12 March 1488, who named it the "Cape of Storms" (Cabo das Tormentas). [12]
January 8 – The Royal Netherlands Navy is formed, by the decree of Maximillian of Austria.; February 3 – Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay, after rounding the Cape of Good Hope at the tip of Africa, becoming the first known European to travel this far south, and entering the Indian Ocean.
Dias helped in the construction of the São Gabriel and its sister ship, the São Rafael that were used by Vasco da Gama to sail past the Cape of Good Hope and continue to India. [4] One of the sailors, Bartolomeu Dias, passed the Cape of Good Hope and the southernmost point of Africa in 1488.
A VBSS team leaves NRP Bartolomeu Dias, lead frigate of the Bartolomeu Dias class. During the onset of East Timor's independence from Indonesia in 1999, Portugal sent two frigates and various troops to aid its former colony in the Pacific Ocean. NRP Vasco da Gama and NRP Hermenegildo Capelo remained in the area until mid-2001. [12]
August – Bartolomeu Dias leaves Lisbon, on his voyage to the Cape of Good Hope. August 13 – The Siege of Málaga (1487) ends, when the Spanish take the city. September 9 – Hongzhi becomes Emperor of China (Ming Dynasty).