{"slug": "cape-verde", "label": "Cape Verde", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Verde", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1011", "qid": "Q1011", "description": "sovereign state comprising ten islands off the Western coast of Africa", "entries": 9, "years": 8, "span": [1456, 1990], "span_label": ["1456 CE", "1990 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Cape Verde Islands"], "related": [{"slug": "portugal", "label": "Portugal", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "united-nations", "label": "United Nations", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mozambique", "label": "Mozambique", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pope-john-paul-ii", "label": "Pope John Paul II", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mali", "label": "Mali", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "chad", "label": "Chad", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "burkina-faso", "label": "Burkina Faso", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "guinea-bissau", "label": "Guinea-Bissau", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "senegal", "label": "Senegal", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "guinea", "label": "Guinea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pope-julius-ii", "label": "Pope Julius II", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "francis-drake", "label": "Francis Drake", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1456, "year_label": "1456 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Alvise Cadamosto discovers some of the Cape Verde Islands.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371442849#Date_unknown", "title": "1456", "revid": 1371442849, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1462, "year_label": "1462 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Portugal begins to settle the Cape Verde Islands, with slaves from the coast of Guinea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359849875#Date_unknown", "title": "1462", "revid": 1359849875, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1462, "year_label": "1462 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "January 22", "text": "January 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.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359849875#January–March", "title": "1462", "revid": 1359849875, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1505, "year_label": "1505 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 24", "text": "January 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. 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