8 June 1552 - The
PortuguesegalleonSão 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 dos Medos do Ouro (alternatively Rio dos Médãos do Ouro — River of the Gold Dunes)[1][2]
1570s
13 December 1575 - on the feast of Saint Lucy, Manuel Peresterello renamed Rio dos Medos do Ouro 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"
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, after engaging in provocations towards the indigenous people
8 June 1552 - The
PortuguesegalleonSão 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 dos Medos do Ouro (alternatively Rio dos Médãos do Ouro — River of the Gold Dunes)[1][2]
1570s
13 December 1575 - on the feast of Saint Lucy, Manuel Peresterello renamed Rio dos Medos do Ouro 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"
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, after engaging in provocations towards the indigenous people