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In 1482 – 1483, Captain Diogo Cão, sailing southwards on uncharted Congo River, discovered the mouth of the river, and became the first European to encounter the Kingdom of Kongo.
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* 21 Dukes and Duchess of Burgundy ( 956 – 1002, 1026 – 1361, 1363 – 1482 )
** Mary ( 1477 – 1482 )
* 6 Dukes and Duchess of Brabant ( 1405 – 1482 )
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* 6 Counts and Countesses of Hainaut ( 1253 – 1256, 1417 – 1482, 1700 – 1713 )
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1482 and 1483
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The foundations of the red brick College were laid at his birthplace in Brookgate in March 1482 and a licence was granted on 22 January 1483 " for the honour and glory of the name of Jesus Christ to found a perpetual College ".
* Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany ( c. 1454 – 1485 ), second son of James II, forfeited his honours in 1479, was restored in 1482, then forfeited them again in 1483
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Henshen's Mongols recaptured Hami twice in 1482 and 1483, but the son of Ali, Ahmed, reconqured it in 1493 and captured the Hami leader and the resident of China in Hami ( hami was a vassal state to Ming ).
* Sir Thomas Mortimer, who acted as his nephew's ( Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March ) deputy in Ireland ( 1482 – 1483 ) and stood trial for the slaying of Richard II's commander, Sir Thomas Molineux after the Battle of Radcot Bridge ( 1387 ).
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It was called Casa da Guiné, Casa da Guiné e Mina from 1482 to 1483 and Casa da Índia e da Guiné in 1499.
) on 5 March 1482 / 83, and as Earl of Nottingham on 28 June 1483.
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* 1482 – 1483: John Laing, Bishop of Glasgow
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* Abu ' abd Allah Muhammed XII, known as Boabdil ( 1482 – 1483, 1486 – 1492 )
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Patrick was one of the conservators of truces with England in the years 1449, 1451-7 and 1459, was confirmed as Sheriff of Berwickshire on 20 May 1452, and he or his namesake grandson was the last Scottish Keeper & Captain, for less than a year in 1482, of Berwick Castle.
1482 and Diogo
In 1482, Portuguese caravels commanded by Diogo Cão arrived in the Congo.
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.
* 1482 — Diogo Cão reached the estuary of the Zaire ( Congo ) and placed a landmark there.
* Portugal had a much older claim, dating back to Diogo Cão's discovery of the mouth of the Congo River in 1482 and, having ignored it for centuries, was stimulated into remembering it.
Diogo Cão, or Can, discovered the Congo in 1482 and reached Cape Cross in 1486.
In 1482, Kingdom of Portugal's caravels commanded by Portuguese navigator Diogo Cão arrived in the Kingdom of Congo.
Diogo Cão and Bartolomeu Dias arrived to the mouth of the Zaire River in 1482.
Under the command of Diogo de Azambuja, the fleet set sail on 11 December 1481 and arrived at Elmina a little over a month later, on 19 January 1482.
The town grew around São Jorge da Mina Castle, built by the Portuguese Diogo de Azambuja in 1482 on the site of a town or village called Amankwakurom or Amankwa, after that war.
He is then recorded sailing with Diogo Cão on his first voyage in 1482, and as the pilot of the famous Bérrio caravel on Vasco da Gama ’ s first expedition in 1497 to sail directly from Europe to India.
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