Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias, reaches the Cape of Good Hope and enters what would later became known as Mossel Bay, during his attempt to establish a sea route to India. He was the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa. His trip had started in Lisbon, Portugal with a small fleet in July 1487.
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