Bartholomew Diaz
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Bartholomew Diaz
Bartholomew Diaz (Bartolomeu Dias) (died 1500) was a Portuguese navigator who was the first European to sail around the Cape of Good Hope (1486-88) in the far south of Africa.
This achievement opened up a sea and trading route from Europe to India and the rest of Asia. Sailing via the Cape of Good Hope was a much faster route than the long overland journeys to the East that had been used until then.
This achievement opened up a sea and trading route from Europe to India and the rest of Asia. Sailing via the Cape of Good Hope was a much faster route than the long overland journeys to the East that had been used until then.
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In 1488 Bartholemew Diaz was the first to sail round the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa. He named it the "Cape of Storms" (Cabo das Tormentas).
This cape was later renamed "Cape of Good Hope" (Cabo da Boa Esperança) by King John II of Portugal, due to great optimism caused by the opening of a sea route from Europe to India and the East.
Bartholomew Diaz (article)
Bartolomeu Dias (Anglicized: Bartholomew Diaz) (c. 1450 - May 29, 1500), a nobleman of the Royal Household, was a Portuguese explorer who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first European known to have done so.
Source: Wapedia
Source: Wapedia
Cape Town, the Cape Peninsula and the Cape of Good Hope (Landsat photo)
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The Two Most Important Events
"The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind."
-- Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)
A triangular postage stamp of 1855 from the Cape of Good Hope (then a British colony)
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