Person

Bartolomeu Dias

Portuguese explorer

b. 1451 CE – d. 1500 CE World The African South

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.

Moran, J. (2017). Bartolomeu Dias. History Atlas. Retrieved 11 October 2026, from https://www.historyatlas.com/people/bartolomeu-dias/

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