Late Middle Ages · Africa · Exploration
1486
Diogo Cao Dies on African Coast
1486
The Portuguese navigator who had reached Cape Cross vanished somewhere on the southwest African coast, dying of disease or in a local conflict. His padrao stones, etched with Portuguese royal arms, remained embedded in the shoreline to mark his progress. Bartolomeu Dias would pass them the next year, sailing south to the unknown cape.
In context
Also in 1486 (3 other events on record)
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Before and after in Africa
- Before: 1483: Portuguese Reach the Kongo
- After: 1487: Portuguese Reach Benin
Before and after in Exploration
Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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