Late Middle Ages · Africa · Exploration
1488
Diogo Cao's Padrao at Cape Cross
1488
Portuguese captain Diogo Cao erected a stone pillar at Cape Cross on the Namibian coast, the southernmost point any European had charted. The monument was a legal claim and a navigational landmark. Within a year it would be superseded by Dias's round of the Cape, but for one season it marked the edge of the known.
In context
Also in 1488 (5 other events on record)
- Bartolomeu Dias Rounds the Cape · Africa · Exploration
- Ivan III Defies the Horde · Europe · Politics
- Battle of Sauchieburn · Europe · War
- James IV Crowned at Scone · Europe · Politics
- Peasant Revolt in Styria · Europe · Politics
Before and after in Africa
Before and after in Exploration
Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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