Bartolomeu Dias
Portuguese explorer
Years: 1451 - 1500
Bartolomeu Dias (Anglicized: Bartholomew Diaz; c. 1451 – May 29, 1500[=, a nobleman of the Portuguese royal household, was a Portuguese explorer.
He sails around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, reaching the Indian Ocean from the Atlantic, the first European known to have done so.
