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Cape Town Timeline 1300 1997
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1503António de Saldanha enters Table Bay1564Account of the São Bento shipwreck is published1575–1576Manuel de Mesquita Perestrelo surveys the south and south-east coast18 June 1580Francis Drake rounds the Cape1591–1595The Cape becomes a recurrent provisioning node on the route to Asia1 August 1591James Lancaster barters livestock with Khoikhoi at Table Bay4 August 1595Cornelis de Houtman's fleet reaches São Brás1601Joris van Spilbergen anchors in Table Bay1 November 1601James Lancaster's East India Company fleet rounds the Cape20 March 1602Dutch East India Company chartered1615Attempt to leave English convicts at the Cape fails1619Anglo-Dutch joint settlement at the Cape is proposed3 July 1620English East India Company commanders claim Table Bay for King James IMarch 1647Nieuwe Haerlem wrecked in Table Bay1684VOC imposes tighter price controls on indigenous trade8 January 1806Battle of Blaauwberg and the second British occupation of the Cape1 November 1809Caledon Code promulgated13 August 1814Cape formally ceded to Britain1828Ordinance 50 repeals key Khoikhoi labour restrictions