Thema: 1488 a nice year for Europeans! Mi Aug 13, 2008 1:27 pm
Events of 1488
* January 8 - The present Royal Netherlands Navy is formed by decree of Maximillian of Austria. * 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