Bartolomeu Dias

(1451 c.-1500)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Dias, Bartolomeu LBT ID: BaDias1500 VIAF ID: 3891248 LOC ID: n84803595	B/BAP: 1451 DIED: 1500-05-24
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Portuguese explorer who was the first European to sail around the southernmost tip of Africa (1488).
REFERENCES TO Bartolomeu Dias: Trelawny, Edward John, 1792-1881, Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (London: Edward Moxon, 1858) Chapter X. Found 1: ¶ 6