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Portuguese Cape rounding and early Atlantic–African coastal exploration (1480–1500)

Portuguese Cape rounding and early Atlantic–African coastal exploration (1480–1500)

  1. Treaty of Alcáçovas allocates Atlantic spheres

    Labels: Treaty of, Castile, Portugal

  2. São Jorge da Mina (Elmina) fortress erected

    Labels: S o, Gold Coast

  3. Diogo Cão reaches the Congo River mouth

    Labels: Diogo C, Congo River

  4. Diogo Cão’s second voyage reaches Cape Cross

    Labels: Diogo C, Cape Cross

  5. Bartolomeu Dias departs Lisbon to seek a passage

    Labels: Bartolomeu Dias, Lisbon

  6. Dias reaches landfall east of the Cape

    Labels: Bartolomeu Dias, Southern Africa

  7. Dias erects a padrão at Kwaaihoek

    Labels: Bartolomeu Dias, Kwaaihoek

  8. Dias sights the Cape on the return voyage

    Labels: Bartolomeu Dias, Cape of

  9. Dias returns to Lisbon after rounding Africa

    Labels: Bartolomeu Dias, Lisbon

  10. Treaty of Tordesillas sets a new demarcation line

    Labels: Treaty of, Portugal

  11. Vasco da Gama departs to apply Dias’s route

    Labels: Vasco da, Lisbon

  12. Da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope

    Labels: Vasco da, Cape of