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Magellan was born into a wealthy Portuguese family in around 1480, and became a skilled sailor and naval officer. Despite efforts to sail for his native Portugal , Magellan fell out of favor with the Portuguese King Manuel I and was later selected by King Charles I of Spain to search for a westward route to the Maluku Islands (the "Spice ...
The Magellan expedition, sometimes termed the Magellan–Elcano expedition, was a 16th-century Spanish expedition planned and led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. One of the most important voyages in the Age of Discovery , its purpose was to secure a maritime trade route with the Moluccas , or Spice Islands, in present-day Indonesia .
After Magellan was killed by Lapulapu off the Philippines on 27 April 1521, the circumnavigation was completed under the command of the Basque Spanish seafarer Juan Sebastián Elcano who returned to Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain, on 6 September 1522, after a journey of 3 years and 1 month. [1] These men were the first to circumnavigate the globe.
The fleet discovers the Straits of Magellan. Painting by Álvaro Casanova Zenteno, 1925. The Concepción held 90 tonels [b] and cost 228,750 maravedís [c] to construct. [5] Leaving Seville on August 10, 1519, the Concepción 's crew consisted of 44 men under Captain Gaspar de Quesada. Juan Sebastián Elcano was its boatswain.
Juan Sebastián Elcano [1] (Elkano in modern Basque; [2] sometimes given as del Cano; [3] [1] 1486/1487 [4] – 4 August 1526) was a Basque navigator [n 1], ship-owner and explorer from Getaria, part of the Crown of Castile when he was born, best known for having completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth in the Spanish ship Victoria on the Magellan expedition to the Spice Islands.
Tile commemorating the first global circumnavigation, the Magellan-Elcano expedition, which sailed from Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cadiz), Spain, on 20 September 1519. Replica of the Victoria , the only one of the five ships of Ferdinand Magellan which returned to Spain in 1522, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the globe.
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Antonio Pigafetta (Italian: [anˈtɔːnjo piɡaˈfetta]; c. 1491 – c. 1531) was a Venetian scholar and explorer. In 1519, he joined the Spanish expedition to the Spice Islands led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, the world's first circumnavigation, and is best known for being the chronicler of the voyage.