16th century in South Africa

none 16th century Events 1500s 1503 - Antonio de Saldanha, leading a Portuguese squadron, enters Table Bay due to a navigational error.Early struggles, contact and conflict in the Cape Colony South African History Online https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/early-struggles-contact-and-conflict-cape-colony 2025-02-19 www.sahistory.org.za De Saldanha and his squadron become the first Europeans to climb Table Mountain, formerly known as Hoerikwagga.General South African History Timeline: 1500s South African History Online https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/general-south-african-history-timeline-1500s 2025-02-19 www.sahistory.org.za2021-03-02 #LandBack in South Africa: The Fight for Table Mountain Cultural Survival https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/landback-south-africa-fight-table-mountain 2025-02-19 www.culturalsurvival.org en The Portuguese begin to actively explore the South African coastline, and eventually establish early contact with the Khoikhoi people. De Saldanha and his men attempt to trade with the local Khoikhoi people, offering mirrors, glass beads, and a rattle for two sheep and a cow. The Khoikhoi realize the unfair deal, and ambush De Saldanha and his men to reclaim their animals.2023-09-23 Cape Town's Troubled Colonial History https://www.thecollector.com/cape-town-colonial-history/ 2025-02-19 TheCollector en 1510s 1510: The Viceroy of Portuguese India, Francisco d'Almeida, is killed in a skirmish with Khoi-Khoi near Salt River in Table Bay due to a misunderstanding over barter.General South African History Timeline: 1500s South African History Online https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/general-south-african-history-timeline-1500s 2025-02-19 www.sahistory.org.za2023-04-05 Correction https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2023.2199568 Postcolonial Studies 26 4 10.1080/13688790.2023.2199568 1368-8790 Portuguese traders bypass the Cape, using Robben Island for fresh meat and water. 1550s 8 June 1552 - The Portuguese galleon São João is wrecked north of the Great Fish River, on return from the East.General South African History Timeline: 1500s South African History Online https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/general-south-african-history-timeline-1500s 2025-02-19 www.sahistory.org.za Only 64 out of the 473 crew members survive, including navigator and cartographer Manuel de Mesquita Perestrelo.S. Bento (1554) – The Nautical Archaeology Digital Library https://shiplib.org/index.php/shipwrecks/iberian-shipwrecks/portuguese-india-route/s-bento-1554/ 2025-02-19 en-US They undertook a 165 days march to the mouth of the Maputo River in what is now Mozambique. 1554 - The Portuguese ship Saint Benedict is shipwrecked on the coast of what is now called St. Lucia. The survivors named the estuary Rio dos Medos do Ouro (alternatively Rio dos Médãos do Ouro — River of the Gold Dunes) Gomes de Brito Bernanrdo HISTORIA TRAGICO-MARITIMA Em que se escrevem chronologicamente os Naufragios que tiveraõ as Naos de Portugal, depois que se poz em exercicio a Navegação da India, Volume 1 1735 Officina da Congregação do Oratorio Lisbon Portuguese http://scans.library.utoronto.ca/pdf/4/12/historiatragicom01brituoft/historiatragicom01brituoft.pdf 109 11 November 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20141111123623/http://scans.library.utoronto.ca/pdf/4/12/historiatragicom01brituoft/historiatragicom01brituoft.pdf 11 November 2014 dead Xavier Botelho Sebastião Memoria estatistica sobre os dominios portuguezes na Africa Oriental, Volume 1 1835 Typ. de José Baptista Morando Lisbon Portuguese https://books.google.com/books?id=cDBDAAAAcAAJ&q=%22Rio+dos+Medos%22&pg=PA77 77 11 November 2014 1554 - Sebastian Munster creates the earliest map of Africa.Ashiley Nii Ashaley Asé 2019-07-05 This earliest map of Africa was created in 1554 by a German who had never stepped foot on the continent https://face2faceafrica.com/article/this-earliest-map-of-africa-was-created-in-1554-by-a-german-who-had-never-stepped-foot-on-the-continent 2025-02-19 Face2Face Africa en 1560s 1564 - Shipwreck of São Bento in 1554 is described by Portuguese mariner and cartographer Manuel de Mesquita Perestrelo. This is the first book exclusively about South African events.General South African History Timeline: 1500s South African History Online https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/general-south-african-history-timeline-1500s 2025-02-19 www.sahistory.org.za 1564 - The first British slave ship, named "The Jesus Ship," sets sail for Africa.Rediker Marcus A Slave Ship Called Jesus 1570s 13 December 1575 - on the feast of Saint Lucy, Manuel Peresterello renamed Rio dos Medos do Ouro to Santa Lucia 1580s Portugal maintains contact and interaction with South Africa, as a land and as a people, during the reign of King Sebastian.Welch Sydney R. South Africa Under King Sebastian and the Cardinal 1557 - 1580 ChapterOneBooks 1949 en 18 July 1580 - An English admiral, Sir Francis Drake, rounded the Cape on his voyage round the world. He called it "a most stately thing and the fairest cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth".General South African History Timeline: 1500s South African History Online https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/general-south-african-history-timeline-1500s 2025-02-19 www.sahistory.org.za 1589 - The Portuguese ship Sao Thome is shipwrecked near Sodwana Bay 1590s The British & Dutch regularly stop at Table Bay for Asia trade.General South African History Timeline: 1500s South African History Online https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/general-south-african-history-timeline-1500s 2025-02-19 www.sahistory.org.za The Khoikhoi begin to trade iron, copper & marijuana with the Europeans. 1591 - English navigator James Lancaster trades sheep at Saldanha Bay, describing them as large, wool-less, big tailed, and with good mutton. 1593 - A Portuguese ship, the Santo Alberto is lost off the coast of what is now known as the Wild Coast, Eastern Cape Province. It is believed to be near the Mthatha River 1594 - 1601 - James Lancaster, an English navigator, explores the southern African coast and establishes trade relationships with the Khoikhoi 1595 - Four ships under Cornelis de Houtman reach São Bras.General South African History Timeline: 1500s https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/general-south-african-history-timeline-1500s 2025-02-19 www.sahistory.org.zaA Brief History https://www.stamouers.com/civil-and-sacred/voc/1-concis-history-voc 2025-02-19 www.stamouers.com 1595 - The Dutch make their first contact with the coast of Southern Africa.2020-12-29 The Research Behind the Founding of a Proto-Port of Cape Town Before 1652 https://camissapeople.wordpress.com/2020/12/29/the-research-behind-the-founding-of-a-proto-port-of-cape-town-before-1652/ 2025-02-19 Camissa People en 1595 - An early trade relations agreement is signed between Dutch sailors aboard the 'Mauritius' and the Khoikhoi locals near Mossel Bay.Akkoordskop, a Hill in the Western Cape South African History Online https://www.sahistory.org.za/place/akkoordskop-hill-western-cape 2025-02-19 www.sahistory.org.zaSwingler Helen 22 September 2021 Heritage Month: The Khoi encountered Europeans long before Van Riebeeck https://www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-2021-09-22-the-khoi-encountered-europeans-long-before-van-riebeeck?utm_source=chatgpt.comOliver Erna Oliver Willem H. August 31, 2017 The Colonisation of South Africa: A unique case HTS Theological Studies en 73 3 1–8 10.4102/hts.v73i3.4498 0259-9422 free Deaths 29 May 1500 - Bartolomeu Dias drowns at sea near the Cape of Good Hope 1 March 1510 - Francisco de Almeida, the Viceroy of Portuguese India, is killed by the Khoikhoi at the mouth of the Salt River in Table Bay, after engaging in provocations towards the indigenous people References Bibliography Steenkamp Willem Assegais, Drums & Dragoons: The Untold Military History of the Old Cape 1510 - 1806 2012 Jonathan Ball Publishers 978-1-86842-479-5 Johannesburg See also Years in South Africa for further sources