Theme
Exploration
Events involving exploration.
Initial theme stub generated from temp/sa-history-16th-century-events.csv.
Events
1488Bartolomeu Dias rounds the Cape1497–1499Vasco da Gama's fleet rounds southern Africa en route to India1503António de Saldanha enters Table Bay1544Lourenço Marques surveys Delagoa Bay1575–1576Manuel de Mesquita Perestrelo surveys the south and south-east coast18 June 1580Francis Drake rounds the Cape1601Joris van Spilbergen anchors in Table Bay1655VOC begins systematic exploration beyond the Cape Peninsula22 October 1657Abraham Gabbema explores the Berg River region1659–1664VOC expeditions search for Namaqua trade and mineral resources31 January 1661Pieter Cruythoff reaches Namaqua territory1668Hieronimus Cruse ordered to explore the south-east coast4 January 1669Hieronimus Cruse departs on a Hessequa trade expedition10 December 1676–6 January 1677Cruse leads a livestock expedition toward Captain Claes and the Hessequa1677Cornelis Wobma surveys the west coast1682Olof Bergh undertakes a west-coast expedition1683Olof Bergh conducts a second northern expeditionAugust 1685–January 1686Simon van der Stel leads an expedition to Namaqualand4 January–10 April 1689Isaq Schrijver leads an expedition into the eastern interior