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Magellan's Voyage Around the World


Magellan expedition - Wikipedia

Totaling 60,440 km, or 37,560 mi, the nearly three-year voyage achieved the first circumnavigation of Earth in history. It also revealed the vast scale of the ...

Ferdinand Magellan ‑ Early Years, Expedition & Legacy | HISTORY

Though Magellan is often credited with the first circumnavigation of the globe, he did so on a technicality: He first made a trip from Europe to ...

Magellan was first to sail around the world, right? Think again.

Nonetheless, it's clear that Ferdinand Magellan's 1519 expedition changed the world forever. His journey was “the greatest sea voyage ever ...

Around the world in 1082 days - Penn Today

20, 1519, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, with five ships and a crew of 270 men, set sail from Sanlucar de Barrameda in southern Spain, ...

Magellan's Circumnavigation of the Earth | Origins

On September 20, 1519, five ships carrying about 270 men left the Spanish port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda sailing west — and kept going.

Ferdinand Magellan - Circumnavigation, Exploration, Voyage

The first European to navigate the strait was Ferdinand Magellan (October 21–November 28, 1520), a Portuguese sailing for Spain, whose ...

Why the Magellan Expedition Was So Treacherous | HISTORY

By circumnavigating the globe, the expedition had extinguished any remaining doubts that the world was round, and it also showed that North and ...

Route of Magellan. First around the World

The Magellan Route is the trail of the First Voyage Around the World. It is a universal and global road because its itinerary is developed throughout the ...

Magellan's Expedition and Elcano's First Circumnavigation of the ...

The Spanish expedition to the Spice Islands set sail with five ships in 1519, led by the Portuguese Ferdinand Magellan. The journey was completed in 1522.

Ferdinand Magellan | Royal Museums Greenwich

In doing so, his expedition became the first from Europe to cross the Pacific Ocean and circumnavigate the world. Who was Magellan? Magellan was born in ...

Timeline of the Magellan expedition - Wikipedia

The Magellan expedition (10 August or 20 September 1519 – 6 September 1522) was the first voyage around the world in human history.

Ferdinand Magellan & The First Voyage Around the World

One expedition, led by Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese explorer serving the Spanish crown, would ultimately be successful: the Magellan expedition.

Magellan's voyage 1519-1522 - The map as history

The expedition led by Magellan was expected to sail as far as the Spice Islands to the west by sailing around the American continent.

Journal of Magellan's Voyage. | Library of Congress

This manuscript volume, dating from around 1525, details Ferdinand Magellan's voyage around the world in 1519-22. The work is attributed to Antonio ...

Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521) – 500 years from the expedition

Magellan heralded a new age of globalization regarding the knowledge and use of Earth's resources. Magellan's journey proved that the planet we live on has a ...

Ferdinand Magellan - Ages of Exploration

Ferdinand Magellan then went to King Charles I of Spain. The Spanish King agreed to sponsor what would become Magellan's great voyage around the world. Voyages

Magellan and the First Voyage Around the World

Magellan sailed the Pacific East to West on a Spanish (Castilian) expedition of world circumnavigation starting in 1519.

THE FIRST VOYAGE AROUND THE WORD - YouTube

It was the greatest maritime adventure of all time, a human epic that began with the Portuguese navigator Francisco de Magallanes and ...

Ferdinand Magellan | Biography, Voyage, Map ... - Britannica

Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese navigator and explorer. From Spain he sailed around South America, discovering the Strait of Magellan, ...