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Cape Verde

sovereign state comprising ten islands off the Western coast of Africa

7 dated entries naming Cape Verde, drawn from 6 separate years between 1456 CE and 1990 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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15th century

  • 1456Alvise Cadamosto discovers some of the Cape Verde Islands.source
  • 1462Portugal begins to settle the Cape Verde Islands, with slaves from the coast of Guinea.source
  • 1462January 22 – On Saint Vincent's Day, Portuguese explorer Diogo Afonso and his men become the first Europeans to discover the island of São Vicente (now part of Cape Verde) off the coast of North Africa.source

16th century

  • 1505January 24 – Under the terms of the Treaty of Tordesillas, Pope Julius II sets the line of demarcation in the New World between Spain's and Portugal's territory as a line of longitude 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands. The ambiguous definition of the measure of a league places the line between 42°30' W to 49°45' W.source
  • 1585November 28 – Anglo-Spanish War: The island of Santiago in Cape Verde is captured by Francis Drake.source

20th century

  • 1975September 16 – Cape Verde, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe join the United Nations.source
  • 1990January 25 – Pope John Paul II begins an eight-day tour of Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Burkina Faso and Chad.source

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