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Commons category: 1488
point in time: 1488-01-01

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March 12: Bartolomeu Dias and crew become the first Europeans to land at Africa's Cape of Good Hope. Year 1488 (MCDLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

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