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1462
 
     
Portuguese settlers arrive to found Cidade Velha, on the Cape Verde island of Santiago        
1466
 
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The Portuguese settlers on the Cape Verde islands are granted a monopoly on the new slave trade       
1483
 
  
The Portuguese establish a further presence on the west coast of Africa, at the mouth of the Congo river     
1488
 
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Bartolomeu Dias, sailing for the king of Portugal, becomes the first European navigator to round the Cape of Good Hope       
c. 1500
 
  
The Portuguese establish trading posts in east Africa, on the coast of Mozambique     
1503
 
   
The Portuguese set up a trading post on the east African island of Zanzibar      
from 1517
 
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From Bosnia to Egypt and Arabia, the Ottoman Turks now rule the largest Muslim empire since the early caliphate - and will frequently use the title of caliph to assert their authority within Sunni Islam     
c. 1550
 
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Africans, bought in the Portuguese trading posts of west Africa, are shipped across the Atlantic as slaves      
1638
 
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The French build a trading station on the estuary of the Senegal river in west Africa     
1652
 
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Jan van Riebeeck establishes a Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good Hope