heritage-institution
sahistory.org.za: General South African History Timeline 1500s
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1488Bartolomeu Dias rounds the Cape1503António de Saldanha enters Table Bay1 March 1510Khoekhoe forces defeat a Portuguese punitive expedition at Salt RiverAfter March 1510Portuguese mariners reduce direct use of Table Bay after the Salt River clash1564Account of the São Bento shipwreck is published1575–1576Manuel de Mesquita Perestrelo surveys the south and south-east coast18 June 1580Francis Drake rounds the Cape1590sEnglish and Dutch ships begin calling regularly at Table Bay1590sKhoekhoe communities trade livestock and goods with foreign marinersLate sixteenth centuryThe Cape becomes a recurrent provisioning node on the route to Asia1 August 1591James Lancaster barters livestock with Khoekhoe at Table Bay4 August 1595Cornelis de Houtman's fleet reaches São Brás