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General South African History Timeline 1500s
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1488Bartolomeu Dias rounds the Cape1503António de Saldanha enters Table Bay1 March 1510Khoikhoi forces defeat a Portuguese punitive expedition at Salt River1564Account 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 Brás