In Portuguese historians state that Bartolomeu Dias is a relative or descendant of João Dias who sailed
around Cape Bojador in 1434,and of Diniz Dias who said to have discovered the Cape Verde Islands. and in 1457
Bartolomeu Dias was born. Dias came from a noble Portuguese family and his father attended the Portuguese court
and Dias was well educated as befitted his status and would have been taught several languages, physics, geometry,
mathematics and astronomy. then Dias was a member of the royal Portuguese court and held the title of Sailing
Master of the Portuguese man-of-war Sao Cristovao (San Christovao) ,in 1481 Dias joined Diogo d'Azambuja to explore
the Gold Coast of Africa and in 10 Octber1486 King John II of Portugal appoints Bartolomeu Dias leader of an
expedition to sail around the southern most tip of Africa and make contact with a Christian ruler in the Indies called
Prester John . Marco Polo and Vasco De Gama had both informed the Portuguese court of the existence of Prester
John, King of Ethiopia.In August 1487 Bartolomeu Dias embarked from the River Tagus below Lisbon on his voyage of
exploration around Africa to the Indies with two armed caravels and one supply-ship, a square-rigger, which was
commanded by his brother, Pero Dias The voyage of exploration lasted sixteen months and the expedition route trave
travelled as follows:
- Sao Jorge de Mina, the Portuguese fortress on the Gold Coast to take on extra provisions
- Sailed passed the coast of Angola
- December 1487 they reached Golfo da Conceicão (Walvis Bay)
- Sailed into Golfo de Santo Estevao (Elizabeth Bay)
- January 1488 unknowingly the sailed through a terrible storm around the Cape of Good Hope which Diaz called Cabo Tormentosa ,which is the Cape of Storm
- Sailed North to Bahia dos Vaqueiros (Mussel Bay) where they landed February 3 1488
- Landed at Bahia da Roca (Algoma Bay)
- 12 March 1488 west of Bushman's River mouth, they dropped anchor at a headland, called False Islet, now known as Kwaaihoek and decided to embark on their return journey home
Then in December 1488 Dias retured back to Lisbon \(^-^)/having opened up lucrative trading routes from
Europe to Asia and with invaluable information for future Portuguese voyages of exploration These Portuguese
expeditions were headed by Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama and Pedro Alvares Cabral who all used the charts
prepared by Dias. and In 1497 Dias accompanied the expedition led by Vasco da Gama to India, In 1500 Dias
accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral on the voyage that resulted in the discovery of Brazil. This voyage mysteriously
took a course to the New World and Cabral discovered Brazil - the expedition then turned back towards the south coast
of Africa.After that in 29/24( I don't know what is the true one) May 1500 Dias die at violent storm in the Cape of
Good Hope
And that is about Bartolomeu Dias I think that is very interesting for me! and I very thank you Google that give
me an information. ^^
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