Late Middle Ages · Africa · Exploration
1488
Bartolomeu Dias Rounds the Cape
February 3, 1488
A storm drove the Portuguese captain's caravel past a point he did not see, and when he turned north he found open ocean where no European had sailed. His crew mutinied at the Great Fish River; Dias named the southern headland the Cape of Storms. King Joao rechristened it Good Hope.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.