Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope
Proof that a sea route to India around Africa exists
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The Portuguese expedition of Bartolomeu Dias was the first European voyage to round the southern tip of Africa and enter the Indian Ocean. It proved that a sea route to India around Africa was possible.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1492 Fall of Granada — 4 years later
- 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas — 6 years later
- 1508–1512 Sistine Chapel ceiling — 20 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1478 Annexation of Novgorod by Moscow — 10 years earlier
- 1480 Great Stand on the Ugra River — 8 years earlier
Middle East
- 1501 Founding of Safavid Iran — 13 years later
Asia
- 1498 Vasco da Gama reaches India — 10 years later
- 1511 Portuguese capture of Malacca — 23 years later
Americas
- 1492 Columbus reaches the Americas — 4 years later
Alive at the time
- Christopher Columbus (aged 37)
- Leonardo da Vinci (aged 36)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (aged 15)
- Michelangelo (aged 13)
- Martin Luther (aged 5)
- Ashikaga Yoshimasa (aged 52)
- Ivan III (aged 48)
- Isabella I of Castile (aged 37)
- Henry VII (aged 31)
- Maximilian I (aged 29)