16th Century In South Africa

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1600s In South Africa , and the
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EVENTS

1500s

1503 - Antonio De Saldanha lands at Table Bay

1550s

8 June 1552 - The Portuguese Galleon ''Sao João'' is wrecked near Port Edward . Only 25 out of the 480 survivors who undertook a 165 days march to the mouth of the Maputo River in what is now Mozambique arrived

1554 - The Portuguese ship ''Saint Benedict'' is shipwrecked on the coast of what is now called St. Lucia . The survivors named the estuary "Rio de la Medãos do Ouro" ''(River of the dows of Gold)''

1570s

13 December 1575 - on the feast of Saint Lucy, Manuel Peresterello renamed "Rio de la Medaos do Oura" to Santa Lucia

1580s

18 July 1580 - An English admiral, Sir Francis Drake , rounded the Cape on his voyage round the world. He called it "a most stately thing and the fairest cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth"

1590s

1593 - A Portuguese ship, the ''Santo Alberto'' is lost off the coast of what is now known as the Wild Coast, Eastern Cape Province

1594 - 1601 - James Lancaster , an English navigator, explores the southern African coast and establishes trade relationships with the Khoikhoi

BIRTHS

DEATHS

29 May 1500 - Bartolomeu Dias drowns at sea

1 March 1510 - Francisco d’ Almeida, the Viceroy of Portuguese India, is killed by the Khoikhoi at the mouth of the Salt River in Table Bay on his way back to Portugal