Theme
Maritime Routes
Events involving maritime routes.
Initial theme stub generated from temp/sa-history-16th-century-events.csv.
Events
1488Bartolomeu Dias rounds the Cape1507Portuguese trading and naval post established on Mozambique Island18 June 1580Francis Drake rounds the Cape1591–1595The Cape becomes a recurrent provisioning node on the route to Asia4 August 1595Cornelis de Houtman's fleet reaches São Brás1 November 1601James Lancaster's East India Company fleet rounds the Cape1619Anglo-Dutch joint settlement at the Cape is proposed1651VOC directors authorise a permanent Cape refreshment station1652Company's Garden established