# Gama’s fleet rounds the Cape of Good Hope on the outward voyage Date: 1497 ## The fact In November 1497 [Gama](/people/vasco-da-gama)’s ships rounded the Cape of Good Hope on the outward India voyage. The dated waypoint is not [Dias](/people/wellington-dias)’s 1488 rounding and not the 1498 Malabar landfall. Vasco da Gama’s documented role is: He took the fleet past the Cape in November 1497 on a wide Atlantic tack. Dias had rounded before; Gama commanded this passage. Do not twin this with Dias 1488. Do not twin it with Calicut 1498. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Vasco da Gama's documented role is: He took the fleet past the Cape in November 1497 on a wide Atlantic tack. Dias had rounded before; Gama commanded this passage. ## Context A wide Atlantic tack, scurvy later on, and unnamed pilots already structure the file. Rounding a cape is not unique authorship of the African coast. Later national myth is not 1497. Named others on the file: Unnamed pilots and crews, and Bartolomeu Dias as predecessor, share the waypoint. The public setting is the file around 1497-11-22. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. The instrument stays Gama’s fleet rounds the Cape of Good Hope on the outward voyage. The setting of Gama’s fleet rounds the Cape of Good Hope on the outward voyage is the public file around 1497-11-22. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [industrial-policy-activism](/drivers/industrial-policy-activism) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts. ## Evidence and sources Britannica and the later journal independently date Gama’s 1497 Cape passage as distinct from 1498 Calicut. Official: Britannica — Vasco da Gama, Cape of Good Hope 1497 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasco-da-Gama; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Journal of the First Voyage — Cape passage English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22599; Project Gutenberg). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Britannica — Vasco da Gama, Cape of Good Hope 1497 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasco-da-Gama; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Journal of the First Voyage — Cape passage English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22599; Project Gutenberg). Official or archival record: Britannica — Vasco da Gama, Cape of Good Hope 1497 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasco-da-Gama; Encyclopaedia Britannica). ## Significance Improving industrial-policy path: a completed Cape waypoint on the India voyage. Complex shared seamanship. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated Cape rounding on the India voyage put a completed oceanic waypoint into the carreira file, distinct from Calicut arrival. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving. Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not twin this with Dias 1488. Do not twin it with Calicut 1498. Mixed effects of Gama’s fleet rounds the Cape of Good Hope on the outward voyage are separate paths. ## What is established and what is not Established: 1497 outward Cape rounding under Gama. Not established: that Dias’s 1488 is this same fleet. Established: a sourced public record of Gama’s fleet rounds the Cape of Good Hope on the outward voyage under 1497-11-22. Established: a sourced public record of Gama’s fleet rounds the Cape of Good Hope on the outward voyage under 1497-11-22. Shared responsibility is part of Gama’s fleet rounds the Cape of Good Hope on the outward voyage. Naming Vasco da Gama does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1497-11-22 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them. The attached driver is industrial-policy-activism. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here. ## People - Vasco da Gama: https://factrail.ai/people/vasco-da-gama ## Drivers - Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism ## Sources - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasco-da-Gama - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22599 ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/vdg-cape-1497