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Parent: Early maritime contact
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1488Bartolomeu Dias rounds the Cape1497–1499Vasco da Gama's fleet rounds southern Africa en route to India1503António de Saldanha enters Table Bay1505Portuguese fortress and trading post established at Sofala1507Portuguese trading and naval post established on Mozambique Island1 March 1510Khoekhoe forces defeat a Portuguese punitive expedition at Salt RiverAfter March 1510Portuguese mariners reduce direct use of Table Bay after the Salt River clashc. 1530sPortuguese trade expands along the Sena–Tete–Zambezi corridor1533Bom Jesus wrecked on the Namibian coast1544Lourenço Marques surveys Delagoa Bay1552São João survivors pass through organised coastal societiesFrom 1552Shipwreck accounts begin documenting coastal chiefly authorityJune 1552São João wrecked on the south-eastern coast1554São Bento survivors travel through coastal chiefdomsApril 1554São Bento wrecked near the Transkei coast1560Gonçalo da Silveira begins a Jesuit mission at the Mutapa court1561Gonçalo da Silveira is killed at the Mutapa court1564Account of the São Bento shipwreck is published1569–1573Francisco Barreto expedition attempts Portuguese penetration of the Zambezi interior1575–1576Manuel de Mesquita Perestrelo surveys the south and south-east coastMarch 1589São Thomé wrecked near the Natal coastLate sixteenth centuryThe Cape becomes a recurrent provisioning node on the route to Asia24 March 1593Santo Alberto wrecked on the Pondoland coastFrom late March 1593Santo Alberto survivors record extensive contact with coastal communities1629Portuguese influence over Mutapa expands after civil conflict1630São Gonçalo wrecked at Plettenberg Bay1693Rozvi forces expel Portuguese influence from parts of the Zimbabwe plateau27 December 1794São José slave ship wrecks at Camps BayAugust 1795Early written Afrikaans appears in a Muizenberg poemc. 1800Tsonga Delagoa Bay trade intensifiesc. 1890Colonial reordering of the Tsonga hinterland