16th century in South Africa
- 16th century in South Africa
"See also:"
15th century in South Africa,
other events of the 16th century,
1600s in South Africa, and the
Timeline of South African history.
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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
Deaths
* 29 May 1500 - Bartolomeu Dias drowns at sea
* 1 March 1510 - Francisco de 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
References
See Timeline of South African history for list of References
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