Diaz Rounds South Africa
01/1488 AD arrived
Dias circumnavigated the southernmost tip of Africa which he named the "Cape of Storms." But, due to it's promise of facilitating trade with the East, King John II of Portuguese renamed it the Cape of Good Hope.
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Bartolomeu Dias (Bartholomew Diaz) First European to sail a...
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