* 1497 – Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope, the point where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal.

* 1488 – Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.

Twenty-eight years later, Bartolomeu Dias proved that Africa could be circumnavigated when he reached the southern tip of the continent, now known as the " Cape of Good Hope.

* Bartolomeu Dias ( – 1500 ) – Portuguese explorer.

** Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorer ( b. c. 1450 )

* August – Bartolomeu Dias leaves Lisbon on his voyage to the Cape of Good Hope.

* February 3 – Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope at the tip of Africa, becoming the first known European to travel this far south and entering the Indian Ocean.

Thus, the first modern rounding of the cape in 1488 by Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias was a milestone in the attempts by the Portuguese to establish direct trade relations with the Far East ( although in his histories Herodotus proves, disbelievingly, that some Phoenicians had done so far earlier than this ).

The first European to reach the cape was the Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias in 1488, who named it the " Cape of Storms " ( Cabo das Tormentas ).

The Portuguese government erected two navigational beacons, Dias Cross and Da Gama Cross, to commemorate Vasco da Gama and Bartolomeu Dias as explorers who as mentioned were the first explorers to reach the cape.

A remarkable achievement was the turning of the Cape of Good Hope by Bartolomeu Dias in 1487.

In the spring of 1500, Pedro Álvares Cabral set sail from Cape Verde with 13 ships and crews and a list of nobles that included Nicolau Coelho, Bartolomeu Dias and his brother Diogo, Duarte Pacheco Pereira ( author of the Esmeraldo ) along with various other nobles, nine chaplains and some 1, 200 men.

Diogo Cão, discovered the Congo in 1482 and reached Cape Cross in 1486 ; Bartolomeu Dias doubled the Cape of Good Hope in 1488, thus proving that the Indian Ocean was accessible by sea.

* 1488 — Bartolomeu Dias, crowning 50 years of effort and methodical expeditions, rounded the Cape of Good Hope and entered the Indian Ocean.

The breakthrough came soon after when John II's captain Bartolomeu Dias returned from rounding the Cape of Good Hope in 1488, having explored as far as the Fish River ( Rio do Infante ) in modern-day South Africa and having verified that the unknown coast stretched away to the northeast.

After reaching the coast of present day Sierra Leone, da Gama took a course south into the open ocean, crossing the Equator and seeking the South Atlantic westerlies that Bartolomeu Dias had discovered in 1487.

The Outward route of the South Atlantic westerlies that Bartolomeu Dias discovered in 1487, followed and explored by Vasco da Gama in the open ocean, would be developed in subsequent years.

Voyage of Bartolomeu Dias ( 1487 – 88 )

Bartolomeu Dias was a Knight of the royal court, superintendent of the royal warehouses, and sailing-master of the man-of-war, São Cristóvão ( Saint Christopher ).

Bartolomeu Dias originally named the Cape of Good Hope the " Cape of Storms " ( Cabo das Tormentas ).

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The doubling of the Cape of Good Hope in 1487 by Bartolomeu Dias first brought explorers within touch of the Antarctic cold, and proved that there was an ocean separating Africa from any Antarctic land that might exist.

Of the four Portuguese Navy sloops — the NRP Afonso de Albuquerque, the NRP Bartolomeu Dias, the NRP João de Lisboa and the NRP Gonçalves Zarco — which were deployed to patrol the waters off Portuguese colonies in the Far East, only one, the NRP Afonso de Albuquerque, had been deployed to Portuguese India.

Infante Manuel, Count of Ourém, (; Manuel José Francisco António Caetano Estêvão Bartolomeu ; ) ( Lisbon, August 3, 1697-Quinta de Belas, August 3, 1766 ) was a Portuguese infante ( prince ), seventh child of Peter II, King of Portugal, and his wife Marie-Sophie of Neuburg.

* São Bartolomeu, Portuguese language for Saint Bartholomew

Others are Bartolomeu Dias, who first rounded the Cape of Good Hope ; Vasco da Gama, who sailed directly to India from Portugal ; Ferdinand Magellan, the first to circumnavigate the Earth ; Christopher Columbus, who significantly encountered the Americas ; Jacques Cartier, who sailed for France, looking for the Northwest Passage ; and others.

* Bartolomeu Dias ( c. 1450 – 1500 ) – Portuguese explorer.

Tristão Vaz Teixeira ( c. 1395 – 1480 ) was a Portuguese navigator and explorer who, together with João Gonçalves Zarco and Bartolomeu Perestrelo, was the official discoverer and one of the first settlers of the archipelago of Madeira ( 1419 – 1420 ).

Bartolomeu Perestrello (, in Italian Bartolommeo Pallastrelli ), 1st Capitão Donatário, Lord and Governor of the Island of Porto Santo ( c. 1395-1457 ) was a Portuguese navigator and explorer that is claimed to have discovered and populated Porto Santo Island ( 1419 ) together with João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira.

As a second fruit of this work João Gonçalves Zarco, Bartolomeu Perestrelo and Tristão Vaz Teixeira rediscovered the Madeira Islands in 1420, and at Henry's instigation Portuguese settlers colonized the islands.

* November 18 – Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese naturalist ( b. 1685 )

The first documented balloon flight in Europe was demonstrated by Bartolomeu de Gusmão.

* August 8 – The hot air balloon of Bartolomeu de Gusmão flies in Portugal.

* 1420 — The same sailors and Bartolomeu Perestrelo discovered the island of Madeira, which at once began to be colonized.

Some claim that the hot air balloon was invented some 74 years earlier by the Brazilian Portuguese priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão.

* 1709 – Bartolomeu de Gusmão demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the King of Portugal in Lisbon, Portugal

There are early legends of human flight such as the story of Icarus, and Jamshid in Persian myth, and later, somewhat more credible claims of short-distance human flights appear, such as the flying automaton of Archytas of Tarentum ( 428 – 347 BC ), the winged flights of Abbas Ibn Firnas ( 810 – 887 ), Eilmer of Malmesbury ( 11th century ), and the hot-air Passarola of Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão ( 1685 – 1724 ).

There are early legends of human flight such as the story of Icarus, and Jamshid in Persian myth, and later, somewhat more credible claims of short-distance human flights appear, such as the flying automaton of Archytas of Tarentum ( 428 – 347 BC ), the winged flights of Abbas Ibn Firnas ( 810 – 887 ), Eilmer of Malmesbury ( 11th century ), and the hot-air Passarola of Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão ( 1685 – 1724 ).

Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão ( 1685, Santos, São Paulo, colony of Brazil – November 18, 1724, Toledo, Spain ), was a priest and naturalist born in the then Portuguese colony of Brazil, noted for his early work on lighter-than-air airship design.

* 1488 – Discovery and passage of the Cape of Good Hope by Bartolomeu Dias in Mossel Bay

The 2011 – 12 season was lived amongst serious financial difficulties, with the squad not being paid their wages for several months, as three coaching moves also happened during the campaign and president João Bartolomeu resigned amongst accusations of ingratitude towards the players.

* Campos dos Goytacazes – Bartolomeu Lysandro Airport