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{{short description|16th-century Spanish maritime expedition}}
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{{Infobox expedition
| name = Magellan Expedition
| image = Detail from a map of Ortelius - Magellan's ship Victoria.png
| caption = Nao ''Victoria'', the ship accomplishing the circumnavigation and the only to return from the expedition. Detail from a map by Abraham Ortelius.
| nation = {{wipe|Spain}}
| leader = Ferdinand Magellan (succeeded by Juan Sebastián Elcano)
| departure_date= Sanlúcar de Barrameda {{start date and age|1519|09|20}}
| return_date= Sanlúcar de Barrameda {{end date and age|1522|09|6}}
| ships = {{hlist
 |''Trinidad''
 |''San Antonio''
 |''Concepción''
 |''Victoria''
 |''Santiago''
}}
| num_participants=approx. 270
| survivors=18 arrived with Elcano, 12 were captured by the Portuguese in Cape Verde, 55 returned with the ''San Antonio'' in 1521, 4 (or 5) from ''Trinidad'' returned in Europe after hard labor in East Indies
| goal=Find a western maritime route to the Spice Islands
| achievements={{plainlist|
* First world [[Earth:Circumnavigation|circumnavigation]] (started by Magellan, completed by Elcano)
* First European Pacific crossing
* First to navigate from the Atlantic to the Pacific (Discovery of the Strait of Magellan)
}}
| route_image = Magellan Elcano Circumnavigation-en.svg
| route_image_caption = Route taken by the expedition, with milestones marked
}}
The '''Magellan expedition''', sometimes called the '''Magellan-Elcano expedition''', was a 16th-century Spanish expedition planned and led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan with the objective of opening a trade route with the Moluccas. The expedition departed from Spain in 1519, and was completed in 1522 by Spanish navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano after Magellan's death, crossing the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans, culminating in the first [[Earth:Circumnavigation|circumnavigation]] of the world.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-06-06 |title=Ferdinand Magellan - Early Years, Expedition & Legacy |url=https://www.history.com/topics/exploration/ferdinand-magellan |access-date=2023-09-10 |website=HISTORY |language=en}}</ref>

The expedition accomplished its primary goal{{snd}}to find a western route to the Moluccas (Spice Islands). The fleet left Spain on 20 September 1519, sailed across the Atlantic ocean and south along the eastern coast of South America, eventually discovering the Strait of Magellan, allowing them to pass through to the Pacific Ocean (which Magellan named). The fleet completed the first Pacific crossing, stopping in the {{wipe|Philippines}}, and eventually reached the Moluccas after two years. A much-depleted crew led by Elcano finally returned to Spain on 6 September 1522, having sailed west across the great Indian Ocean, then around the Cape of Good Hope through waters controlled by the Portuguese and north along the West African coast to eventually arrive in Spain.

The fleet initially consisted of five ships and about 270 men. The expedition faced numerous hardships including sabotage and mutinies by the mostly-Spanish crew (and Elcano himself), starvation, [[Medicine:Scurvy|scurvy]], storms, and hostile encounters with indigenous people. Only 18 men and one ship (the ''Victoria'') completed the return trip to Spain.{{#tag:ref|18 men returned on 6 September 1522 aboard the ''Victoria''. Another 12 who had been captured by the Portuguese in Cape Verde made their way back to Spain over the following year. A few other survivors who had been stranded in the Moluccas were returned years later as Portuguese prisoners.|group="n"}} Magellan himself died in battle in the Philippines and was succeeded as captain-general by a series of officers, with Elcano eventually leading the ''Victoria''{{'}}s return trip.

The expedition was funded mostly by King Charles I of Spain, with the hope that it would discover a profitable western route to the Moluccas, as the eastern route was controlled by Portugal under the Treaty of Tordesillas. Though the expedition did find a route, it was much longer and more arduous than expected and was therefore not commercially useful. Nevertheless, the expedition is regarded as one of the greatest achievements in seamanship and had a significant impact on the European understanding of the world.{{sfn|Cameron|1974|pp=211, 214}}{{sfn|Bergreen|2006}}

==Background==
[[File:Bernard van Orley (1487-1541) Karel V - Koninklijk klooster van Brou (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|King Charles of Spain was 18 years old when he agreed to finance Magellan's expedition to the Spice Islands in 1518. He is pictured here in a painting by Bernard van Orley {{circa|1517}}]]

Christopher Columbus's voyages to the West (1492–1503) had the goal of reaching the Indies and establishing direct commercial relations between Spain and the Asian kingdoms. The Spanish soon realized that the lands of the Americas were not a part of Asia, but another continent. The 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas reserved for Portugal the eastern routes that went around Africa, and Vasco da Gama and the Portuguese arrived in India in 1498.

Given the economic importance of the [[Finance:Spice trade|spice trade]], Castile (''Spain'') urgently needed to find a new commercial route to Asia. After the Junta de Toro conference of 1505, the Spanish Crown commissioned expeditions to discover a route to the west. Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reached the Pacific Ocean in 1513 after crossing the Isthmus of Panama, and Juan Díaz de Solís died in Río de la Plata in 1516 while exploring South America in the service of Spain.

Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese sailor with previous military experience in India, Malacca, and Morocco. A friend, and possible cousin, with whom Magellan sailed, Francisco Serrão, was part of the first expedition to the Moluccas, leaving from Malacca in 1511.{{sfn|Joyner|1992|p=48}} Serrão reached the Moluccas, going on to stay on the island of Ternate and take a wife.{{sfn|Joyner|1992|p=49}} Serrão sent letters to Magellan from Ternate, extolling the beauty and richness of the Spice Islands. These letters likely motivated Magellan to plan an expedition to the islands and would later be presented to Spanish officials when Magellan sought their sponsorship.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=30}}

Historians speculate that, beginning in 1514, Magellan repeatedly petitioned King Manuel I of Portugal to fund an expedition to the Moluccas, though records are unclear.{{sfn|Joyner|1992|p=56|ps=: "While court chronicles do not state so clearly, he likely implored the king to allow him to take men, arms, and supplies to the Moluccas..."}} It is known that Manuel repeatedly denied Magellan's requests for a token increase to his pay, and that in late 1515 or early 1516, Manuel granted Magellan's request to be allowed to serve another master. Around this time, Magellan met the [[Astronomy:Cosmography|cosmographer]] Rui Faleiro, another Portuguese subject nursing resentment towards Manuel.{{sfn|Joyner|1992|p=66}} The two men acted as partners in planning a voyage to the Moluccas which they would propose to the king of Spain. Magellan relocated to Seville, Spain in 1517, with Faleiro following two months later.

On arrival in Seville, Magellan contacted Juan de Aranda, [[Finance:Factor (agent)|factor]] of the ''[[Casa de Contratación]]''. Following the arrival of his partner Rui Faleiro, and with the support of Aranda, they presented their project to the king Charles I of Spain (future Holy Roman Emperor Charles V). Magellan's project, if successful, would realise Columbus' plan of a spice route by sailing west without damaging relations with the Portuguese. The idea was in tune with the times and had already been discussed after Balboa's discovery of the Pacific. On 22 March 1518, the king named Magellan and Faleiro captains so that they could travel in search of the Spice Islands in July. He raised them to the rank of Commander of the Order of Santiago. They reached an agreement with King Charles which granted them, among other things:{{sfn|Joyner|1992|pp=87, 296–298}}
* Monopoly of the discovered route for a period of ten years.{{sfn|Beaglehole|1966|pp=19–20}}{{sfn|Joyner|1992|pp=87, 296}}
* Their appointment as governors (''adelantado'') of the lands and islands found, with 5% of the resulting net gains, inheritable by their partners or heirs.{{sfn|Beaglehole|1966|pp=19–20}}{{sfn|Joyner|1992|p=296}}
* A fifth of the gains from the expedition.{{sfn|Beaglehole|1966|pp=19–20}}
* The right to ship 1,000 ducats worth of goods from the Moluccas to Spain annually exempt from most taxes.{{sfn|Joyner|1992|pp=87, 296}}
* In the event that they discovered more than six islands, one fifteenth of the trading profits with two of their choice,{{sfn|Beaglehole|1966|pp=19–20}} and a twenty-fifth from the others.{{sfn|Joyner|1992|p=297}}

The expedition was funded largely by the Spanish Crown, which provided ships carrying supplies for two years of travel. Though King Charles I was supposed to pay for the fleet he was deeply in debt, and he turned to the [[Finance:Fugger family|House of Fugger]].{{citationrequired|date=October 2019}} Through archbishop Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca, head of the ''Casa de Contratación,'' the Crown obtained the participation of merchant Cristóbal de Haro, who provided a quarter of the funds and goods to barter.

Expert cartographers Jorge Reinel and Diego Ribero, a Portuguese who had started working for King Charles in 1518<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ehrenberg |first=Ralph E. |year=2002 |title=Marvellous countries and lands; Notable Maps of Florida, 1507–1846 |url=http://www.co.broward.fl.us/library/bienes/lii14003.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080312072818/http://www.co.broward.fl.us/library/bienes/lii14003.htm |archive-date=12 March 2008}}</ref> as a cartographer at the ''Casa de Contratación'', took part in the development of the maps to be used in the travel. Several problems arose during the preparation of the trip, including lack of money, the king of Portugal trying to stop them, Magellan and other Portuguese incurring suspicion from the Spanish, and the difficult nature of Faleiro.{{sfn|Castro et al.|2010|pp=61, 331 footnote 2}}

==Construction and provisions==
[[File:ReplicaNaoVictoriaMagallanes.jpg|thumb|A modern replica of the ''Victoria'' in the Nao Victoria Museum, Punta Arenas, {{wipe|Chile}}]]
The fleet, consisting of five ships with supplies for two years of travel, was called ''Armada del Maluco'', after the Indonesian name for the Spice Islands.<ref>{{Cite book |last=González |first=Fernando |title=Congreso Internacional de Historia "Primus Circumdedisti Me" |publisher=Ministerio de Defensa |year=2018 |isbn=978-84-9091-390-1 |location=Valladolid |pages=179–188 |chapter=Los barcos de la armada del Maluco |access-date=7 October 2019 |chapter-url=http://vcentenario.es/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/actas_del_congreso_internacional_v_centenario_-2-3.pdf |archive-date=22 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190922200745/http://vcentenario.es/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/actas_del_congreso_internacional_v_centenario_-2-3.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> The ships were mostly black, due to the tar covering most of their surface. The official accounting of the expedition put the cost at 8,751,125 maravedis, including the ships, provisions, and salaries.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=38}}

Food was a hugely important part of the provisioning. It cost 1,252,909 maravedis, almost as much as the cost of the ships. Four-fifths of the food on the ship consisted of just two items – wine and hardtack.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=57}}

The fleet also carried flour and salted meat. Some of the ships' meat came in the form of livestock; the ship carried seven cows and three pigs. Cheese, almonds, mustard, and figs were also present.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Vial |first=Ignacio Fernandez |title=La Primera Vuelta al Mundo: La Nao Victoria |publisher=Munoz Moya Editores |year=2001 |location=Servilla}}</ref> {{lang|es|Carne de membrillo}},{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=58}} made from preserved quince, was a delicacy enjoyed by captains which may have unknowingly aided in the prevention of [[Medicine:Scurvy|scurvy]].{{sfn|Joyner|1992|p=170}}

===Ships===
The fleet initially consisted of five ships, with ''Trinidad'' being the [[Engineering:Flagship|flagship]]. All or most were carracks (Spanish "carraca" or "nao"; Portuguese "nau").{{#tag:ref|{{harvnb|Bergreen|2003}} says that the ''Santiago'' was a [[Engineering:Caravel|caravel]] and the other four were carracks.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=36}} {{harvnb|Joyner|1992}} labels all five ships as carracks.{{sfn|Joyner|1992|pp=93, 245}}|group="n"}} The ''Victoria'' was the only ship to complete the circumnavigation. Details of the ships' configuration are not known, as no contemporary illustrations exist of any of the ships.{{sfn|Cameron|1974|p=74}} The official accounting of the ''Casa de Contratación'' put the cost of the ships at 1,369,808 maravedis, with another 1,346,781 spent on outfitting and transporting them.{{sfn|Joyner|1992|p=94}}

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Ships of Magellan's expedition
!Ship
!Captain
!Crew
![[Tonnage]]{{#tag:ref|Note that many English sources such as Joyner{{sfn|Joyner|1992|p=93}} provide these numbers [[Social:Calque|calque]]d as "tons" without converting their values from the actual unit, the Biscayan tonel ("[[Physics:Tun (unit)|tun]]"). At the time of Magellan's voyage, this tonel was reckoned as 1.2 [[Tonelada|tonelada]]s{{sfn|Walls y Merino|1899|loc=Annex 3, p. 174}} or roughly {{nowrap|1.7 m³}}, {{nowrap|60.1 cu. ft.}}, or 0.6 English shipping tons.|group="n"}}<br>(tonels)
!Fate
|-
|''Trinidad''
|Ferdinand Magellan
|62 then 61 after a stop-over in Tenerife{{sfn|Castro|2018|p=336}}
|110
|Departed Seville with other four ships 10 August 1519. Broke down in Moluccas, December 1521
|-
|''San Antonio''
|Juan de Cartagena
|55{{sfn|Castro|2018|p=337}}
|120
|Deserted in the Strait of Magellan, November 1520,{{sfn|Castro|2018|p=43}} returned to Spain on 6 May 1521{{sfn|Castro|2018|pp=49, 337}}
|-
|''Concepción''
|Gaspar de Quesada
|44 then 45 after a stop-over in Tenerife{{sfn|Castro|2018|p=338}}
|90
|Scuttled in the Philippines, May 1521
|-
|''Santiago''
|João Serrão
|31 then 33 after a stop-over in Tenerife{{sfn|Castro|2018|p=339}}
|75
|Wrecked in storm at Santa Cruz River, on 22 May 1520{{sfn|Joyner|1992|p=146}}{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=156}}
|-
|''Victoria''
|Luis Mendoza
|45 then 46 after a stop-over in Tenerife{{sfn|Castro|2018|p=335}}
|85
|Successfully completed circumnavigation, returning to Spain in September 1522, captained by Juan Sebastián Elcano. Mendoza was killed during a mutiny attempt.
|}

===Crew===
The crew consisted of about 270 men,<ref name="Levinson2001">{{Cite book |last=Nancy Smiler Levinson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1PbBzjBuW8IC&pg=PA39 |title=Magellan and the First Voyage Around the World |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-395-98773-5 |page=39 |quote=Personnel records are imprecise. The most accepted total number is 270. |access-date=31 July 2010}}</ref> mostly Spaniards. Spanish authorities were wary of Magellan, so that they almost prevented him from sailing, switching his mostly Portuguese crew to mostly men of Spain. In the end, the fleet included about 40 Portuguese,{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=61}} among them Magellan's brother-in-law Duarte Barbosa, João Serrão, Estêvão Gomes and Magellan's indentured servant Enrique of Malacca. Crew members of other nations were also recorded, including 29 Italians, 17 French, and a smaller number of Flemish, Greek, Irish, English, Asian, and black sailors.{{sfn|Joyner|1992|p=104}} Counted among the Spanish crew members were at least 29 Basques (including Juan Sebastián Elcano), some of whom did not speak Spanish fluently.{{sfn|Joyner|1992|p=104}}

Ruy Faleiro, who had initially been named co-captain with Magellan, developed mental health problems prior to departure (or, as other sources state, chose to remain behind after performing a [[Unsolved:Horoscope|horoscope]] reading indicating that the voyage would be fatal for him<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Magellan, Ferdinand}}</ref>) and was removed from the expedition by the king. He was replaced as the fleet's joint commander by Juan de Cartagena and as cosmographer/astrologer by Andrés de San Martín.

Juan Sebastián Elcano, a Spanish merchant ship captain living in Seville, embarked seeking the king's pardon for previous misdeeds. Antonio Pigafetta, a [[Place:Republic of Venice|Venetian]] scholar and traveller, asked to be on the voyage, accepting the title of "supernumerary" and a modest salary. He became a strict assistant of Magellan and kept a journal. The only other sailor to keep a running account during the voyage would be Francisco Albo, who kept a formal nautical logbook.
Juan de Cartagena, suspected illegitimate son of archbishop Fonseca, was named Inspector General of the expedition, responsible for its financial and trading operations.{{sfn|Joyner|1992|p=90}}

==Crossing the Atlantic==
On 10 August 1519, the five ships under Magellan's command left Seville and descended the Guadalquivir River to Sanlúcar de Barrameda, at the mouth of the river. There they remained more than five weeks. Finally they set sail on 20 September 1519 and left Spain.{{sfn|Beaglehole|1966|p=22}}

On 26 September, the fleet stopped at [[Earth:Tenerife|Tenerife]] in the Canary Islands, where they took in supplies (including vegetable and [[Chemistry:Pitch (resin)|pitch]], which were cheaper to acquire there than in Spain).{{sfn|Cameron|1974|p=84}} During the stop, Magellan received a secret message from his father-in-law, Diogo Barbosa, warning him that some of the Castilian captains were planning a mutiny, with Juan de Cartagena (captain of the ''San Antonio'') being the ring-leader of the conspiracy.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=87}} He also learned that the King of Portugal had sent two fleets of caravels to arrest him.

On 3 October, the fleet departed the Canary Islands, sailing south along the coast of Africa. There was some disagreement over directions, with Cartagena arguing for a more westerly bearing.{{sfn|Cameron|1974|p=86}} Magellan made the unorthodox decision to follow the African coast in order to evade the Portuguese caravels which were pursuing him.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=91}}

Toward the end of October, as the Armada approached the equator, they experienced a series of storms, with such intense squalls that they were sometimes forced to strike their sails.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|pp=88–89}} Pigafetta recorded the appearance of [[Astronomy:St. Elmo's fire|St. Elmo's fire]] during some of these storms, which was regarded as a good omen by the crew:

<blockquote>
During these storms the body of St. Anselme appeared to us several times; amongst others, one night that it was very dark on account of the bad weather, the said saint appeared in the form of a fire lighted at the summit of the mainmast, and remained there near two hours and a half, which comforted us greatly, for we were in tears, only expecting the hour of perishing; and when that holy light was going away from us it gave out so great a brilliancy in the eyes of each, that we were near a quarter-of-an-hour like people blinded, and calling out for mercy. For without any doubt nobody hoped to escape from that storm.<ref name="piga">{{Cite book |last=Pigafetta |first=Antonio |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_First_Voyage_Round_the_World/Pigafetta%27s_Account_of_Magellan%27s_Voyage |title=The First Voyage Round the World |translator-last=Stanley |translator-first=Henry |translator-link=Henry Stanley, 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley |access-date=9 April 2019 |archive-date=12 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112022409/https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_First_Voyage_Round_the_World/Pigafetta%27s_Account_of_Magellan%27s_Voyage |url-status=live }}</ref>
</blockquote>

After two weeks of storms, the fleet spent some time stalled in calm, equatorial waters before being carried west by the [[Earth:South Equatorial Current|South Equatorial Current]] to the vicinity of the [[Earth:Trade winds|trade winds]].

===Sodomy trial and failed mutiny===
During the ocean crossing, the ''Victoria'''s Sicilian master, Salomon Antón was caught in an act of sodomy with a Genoese apprentice sailor, António Varesa, off the coast of Guinea.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Carvajal |first=Federico Garza |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FakAAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA59 |page=59 |title=Butterflies Will Burn: Prosecuting Sodomites in Early Modern Spain and Mexico |date=2010-01-01 |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=978-0-292-77994-5 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Reyes |first1=Raquel A. G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uP57zh13BqQC&dq=%22Bento+de+Sal%22&pg=PA150 |title=Sexual Diversity in Asia, c. 600 - 1950 |last2=Clarence-Smith |first2=William G. |date=2012-07-26 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-29721-2 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="piga" /> At the time, homosexuality was punishable by death in Spain, though in practice, sex between men was a common occurrence on long naval voyages.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|pp=92–93}} Magellan held a trial on board the ''Trinidad'' and found Antón guilty, sentencing him to death by strangulation. Antón was later executed on 20 December 1519, after the fleet's landfall in Brazil at Santa Lucia (present-day Rio de Janeiro), his strangled body being burnt.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="piga" /> Varesa drowned after going overboard on 27 April 1520, having been thrown off by his shipmates.{{sfn|Kelsey|2016|p=20}}<ref name=":1" />{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=103}}

In a meeting following the trial, Magellan's captains challenged his leadership. Cartagena accused Magellan of risking the King's ships by his choice of route, sailing South along the African coast. When Cartagena declared that he would no longer follow Magellan's command, Magellan gave the signal for a number of armed loyalists to enter the room and take hold of Cartagena. Magellan called Cartagena a "rebel" and branded his behaviour as mutinous. Cartagena called on the other two Castilian captains (Quesada and Mendoza) to stab Magellan, but they held back.

Immediately following the episode, Cartagena was placed in stocks. Magellan could have tried Cartagena for mutiny and sentenced him to death, but at the urging of Quesada and Mendoza, he agreed to merely relieve Cartagena of his command of the ''San Antonio'' and allow him to move freely within the confines of the ''Victoria''. Antonio de Coca replaced Cartagena as captain of the ''San Antonio''.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|pp=94–95}}

Some details about the sodomy trial and its aftermath are disputed. Salomon Antón's name is also given in some sources as ''Antonio Salamón'', ''Antonio Salamone,'' and ''Antonio Salomón,'' with his job being alternatively listed as boatswain and quartermaster.<ref name="piga" />{{sfn|Kelsey|2016|p=20}}<ref name=":3" /> António Varesa's name is also given as ''Antonio Ginovés,'' with his job also being listed as cabin boy, "ship's boy", or "grummet".{{sfn|Kelsey|2016|p=20}}<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":1" /> Varesa's death is also sometimes described as a suicide from being ridiculed or that he too was outright sentenced to death during the trial.<ref name="piga" /><ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=Giraldez |first=Arturo |title=The Age of Trade: The Manila Galleons and the Dawn of the Global Economy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6mCGBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA45 |page=45 |date=2015-03-19 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-4422-4352-1}}</ref> The date of the trial is also given as September.<ref name=":4" />

==Passage through South America==
===Arrival in Brazil===
[[File:Desembarque de Pedro Álvares Cabral em Porto Seguro em 1500 by Oscar Pereira da Silva (1865–1939).jpg|thumb|upright=1.25
|Pedro Álvares Cabral had claimed Brazil for Portugal in 1500, 20 years before Magellan's voyage. This 1922 painting depicts his arrival in Porto Seguro and first encounter with the natives.
]]

On 29 November, the fleet reached the approximate latitude of Cape Saint Augustine.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The First Voyage Round the World |translator-last=Stanley |translator-first=Henry Edward John |chapter=Log-Book of Francisco Alvo or Alvaro |translator-link=Lord Stanley of Alderley |chapter-url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_First_Voyage_Round_the_World/Log-Book_of_Francisco_Alvo_or_Alvaro |access-date=25 September 2019 |archive-date=16 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416211000/https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_First_Voyage_Round_the_World/Log-Book_of_Francisco_Alvo_or_Alvaro |url-status=live }}</ref> The coastline of Brazil (which Pigafetta refers to as ''Verzin'' in his diary, after the Italian term for brazilwood{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=97}}) had been known to the Spanish and Portuguese since about 1500, and in the intervening decades, European powers (particularly Portugal) had been sending ships to Brazil to collect valuable brazilwood. The Armada carried a map of the Brazilian coastline, the ''Livro da Marinharia'' (the "Book of the Sea"), and also had a crew member, the ''Concepción'''s pilot, João Lopes Carvalho, who had previously visited Rio de Janeiro. Carvalho was enlisted to lead the fleet's navigation down the Brazilian coastline to Rio, aboard the ''Trinidad'', and also helped communicate with the locals, as he had some rudimentary knowledge of their Guarani language.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|pp=95–98}}

On 13 December, the fleet reached Rio de Janeiro. Though nominally Portuguese territory, they maintained no permanent settlement there at the time. Seeing no Portuguese ships in the harbour, Magellan knew it would be safe to stop.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=98}} Pigafetta wrote of a coincidence of weather that caused the armada to be warmly received by the indigenous people:

<blockquote>It is to be known that it happened that it had not rained for two months before we came there, and the day that we arrived it began to rain, on which account the people of the said place said that we came from heaven, and had brought the rain with us, which was great simplicity, and these people were easily converted to the Christian faith.<ref name="piga" /></blockquote>

The fleet spent 13 days in Rio, during which they repaired their ships, stocked up on water and food (such as yam, cassava, and pineapple), and interacted with the locals. The expedition had brought with them a great quantity of trinkets intended for trade, such as mirrors, combs, knives and bells. The locals readily exchanged food and local goods (such as parrot feathers) for such items. The crew also found they could purchase sexual favours from the local women. Historian Ian Cameron described the crew's time in Rio as "a saturnalia of feasting and lovemaking".{{sfn|Cameron|1974|p=95}}

On 27 December, the fleet left Rio de Janeiro. Pigafetta wrote that the natives were disappointed to see them leave, and that some followed them in canoes trying to entice them to stay.{{sfn|Cameron|1974|p=96}}

===Río de la Plata===
The fleet sailed south along the South American coast, hoping to reach ''el paso'', the fabled [[Earth:Strait|strait]] that would allow them passage past South America to the Spice Islands. On 11 January{{#tag:ref|
{{Harv|Cameron|1974|p=96}} gives a date of 11 January for this, whereas {{Harv|Bergreen|2003|p=105}} gives 10 January.|group="n"
}}, a [[Earth:Headland|headland]] marked by three hills was sighted, which the crew believed to be "Cape Santa Maria". Around the headland, they found a wide body of water that extended as far as the eye could see in a west-by-southwest direction. Magellan believed he had found ''el paso'', though in fact he had reached the Río de la Plata. Magellan directed the ''Santiago'', commanded by Juan Serrano, to probe the 'strait', and led the other ships south hoping to find ''[[Earth:Terra Australis|Terra Australis]]'', the southern continent which was then widely supposed to exist south of South America. They failed to find the southern continent, and when they regrouped with the ''Santiago'' a few days later, Serrano reported that the hoped-for strait was in fact the mouth of a river. Incredulous, Magellan led the fleet through the western waters again, taking frequent [[Depth sounding|soundings]]. Serrano's claim was confirmed when the men eventually found themselves in [[Earth:Fresh water|fresh water]].{{sfn|Cameron|1974|p=96}}

===Search for strait===
On 3 February, the fleet continued south along the South American coast.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=123}} Magellan believed they would find a strait (or the southern terminus of the continent) within a short distance.{{sfn|Cameron|1974|p=97}} In fact, the fleet would sail south for another eight weeks without finding passage, before stopping to overwinter at St. Julian.

Not wanting to miss the strait, the fleet sailed as close to the coast as feasible, heightening the danger of running aground on shoals. The ships sailed only during the day, with lookouts carefully watching the coast for signs of a passage. In addition to the hazards of shallow waters, the fleet encountered squalls, storms, and dropping temperatures as they continued south and winter set in.

===Overwintering===
By the third week of March, weather conditions had become so desperate that Magellan decided they should find a safe harbour in which to wait out the winter before resuming the search for a passage in spring. On 31 March 1520, a break in the coast was spotted. There, the fleet found a natural harbour which they called Port St. Julian.{{sfn|Cameron|1974|pp=101–103}}

The men remained at St. Julian for five months, before resuming their search for the strait.

====Easter mutiny====
[[File:Killing of Luiz Mendoza.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Artist's depiction of the fatal stabbing of captain Luis Mendoza, one of the architects of the attempted mutiny at Saint Julian.]]
Within a day of landing at St. Julian, there was another mutiny attempt. Like the one during the Atlantic crossing, it was led by Juan de Cartagena (former captain of the ''San Antonio''), aided by Gaspar de Quesada and Luis Mendoza, captains of the ''Concepción'' and ''Victoria'', respectively. As before, the Castilian captains questioned Magellan's leadership and accused him of recklessly endangering the fleet's crew and ships.

The mutiny at St. Julian was more calculated than the ''fracas'' that had followed the sodomy trial during the Atlantic crossing. Around midnight of Easter Sunday, 1 April, Cartagena and Quesada covertly led thirty armed men, their faces covered with [[Chemistry:Charcoal|charcoal]], aboard the ''San Antonio'', where they ambushed Álvaro de Mezquita, the recently named captain of the ship. Mezquita was Magellan's cousin and sympathetic to the captain general. Juan de Elorriaga, the ship's boatswain, resisted the mutineers and attempted to alert the other ships. For this reason, Quesada stabbed him repeatedly (he would die from his wounds months later).{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|pp=115–117}}

With the ''San Antonio'' subdued, the mutineers controlled three of the fleet's five ships. Only the ''Santiago'' (commanded by Juan Serrano) remained loyal to Magellan, along with the flag ship, the ''Trinidad'', which Magellan commanded. The mutineers aimed the ''San Antonio'''s cannon at the ''Trinidad'' but made no further overtures during the night.

The following morning (2 April), while the mutineers attempted to consolidate their forces aboard the ''San Antonio'' and the ''Victoria'', a longboat of sailors drifted off course into the vicinity of the ''Trinidad''. The men were brought aboard and persuaded to divulge the details of the mutineers' plans to Magellan.

Magellan subsequently launched a counteroffensive against the mutineers aboard the ''Victoria''. He had some marines from the ''Trinidad'' switch clothing with the stray sailors and approach the ''Victoria'' in their longboat. His ''alguacil'', Gonzalo de Espinosa, also approached the ''Victoria'' in a [[Engineering:Skiff|skiff]] and announced that he had a message for the captain, Luis Mendoza. Espinosa was allowed aboard, and into the captain's chambers, based on his claim that he had a confidential letter. There, Espinosa stabbed Mendoza in the throat with his [[Engineering:Poignard|poignard]], killing him instantly. At the same time, the disguised marines came aboard the ''Victoria'' to support the ''alguacil''.{{sfn|Cameron|1974|pp=108–109}}

With the ''Victoria'' lost and Mendoza dead, the remaining mutineers realised they were outmanoeuvred. Cartagena conceded and begged Magellan for mercy. Quesada attempted to flee but was prevented from doing so – sailors loyal to Magellan had cut the ''San Antonio'''s cables, causing it to drift toward the ''Trinidad'', and Cartagena was captured.

====Mutiny trial====
The trial of the mutineers was headed by Magellan's cousin Álvaro de Mezquita and lasted five days. On 7 April, Quesada was beheaded by his foster-brother and secretary, Luis Molina, who acted as executioner in exchange for clemency. The bodies of Quesada and Mendoza were drawn and quartered and displayed on gibbets for the following three months. San Martín, suspected of involvement in the conspiracy, was tortured by ''strappado,'' but afterwards was allowed to continue his service as cosmographer.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|pp=148–149}} Cartagena, along with a priest, Pedro Sanchez de Reina, were sentenced to be marooned.{{sfn|Cameron|1974|pp=109–111}} On 11 August, two weeks before the fleet left St. Julian, the two were taken to a small nearby island and left to die.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=170}} More than forty<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hildebrand |first=Arthur Sturges |title=Magellan. A general account of the life and times and remarkable adventures ... of ... Ferdinand Magellan, etc. [With a portrait.] |date=1925 |publisher=London |oclc=560368881}}</ref> other conspirators, including Juan Sebastián Elcano,<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Murphy |first1=Patrick J. |url=https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300170283/mutiny-and-its-bounty |title=Mutiny and Its Bounty: Leadership Lessons from the Age of Discovery |last2=Coye |first2=Ray W. |date=2013 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=9780300170283 |access-date=26 May 2019 |archive-date=26 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190526194259/https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300170283/mutiny-and-its-bounty |url-status=live }}</ref> were put in chains for much of the winter and made to perform the hard work of [[Engineering:Careening|careening]] the ships, repairing their structure and scrubbing the [[Engineering:Bilge|bilge]].{{sfn|Cameron|1974|p=113}}

====Loss of ''Santiago''====
In late April, Magellan dispatched the ''Santiago'', captained by Juan Serrano, from St. Julian to scout to the south for a strait. On 3 May, they reached the estuary of a river which Serrano named Santa Cruz River.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|pp=155–156}} The estuary provided shelter and was well situated with natural resources including fish, penguins, and wood.{{sfn|Cameron|1974|pp=116–117}}

After more than a week exploring Santa Cruz, Serrano set out to return to St. Julian on 22 May, but was caught in a sudden storm while leaving the harbour.{{sfn|Joyner|1992|p=146}}{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=156}} The ''Santiago'' was tossed about by strong winds and currents before running aground on a sandbar. All (or nearly all{{#tag:ref|
{{Harv|Cameron|1974|p=156}} says that "all her crew except one were able to leap ashore". {{Harv|Bergreen|2003|p=157}} says "all the men aboard ship survived".
|group="n"
}}) of the crew were able to clamber ashore before the ship capsized. Two men volunteered to set off on foot for St. Julian to get help. After 11 days of hard trekking, the men arrived at St. Julian, exhausted and emaciated. Magellan sent a rescue party of 24 men over land to Santa Cruz.

The other 35 survivors from the ''Santiago'' remained at Santa Cruz for two weeks. They were unable to retrieve any supplies from the wreck of the ''Santiago'', but managed to build huts and fire, and subsist on a diet of shellfish and local vegetation. The rescue party found them all alive but exhausted, and they returned to St. Julian safely.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|pp=157–159}}

====Move to Santa Cruz====
After learning of the favourable conditions that Serrano found at Santa Cruz, Magellan decided to move the fleet there for the rest of the austral winter. After almost four months at St. Julian, the fleet left for Santa Cruz around 24 August. They spent six weeks at Santa Cruz before resuming their search for the strait.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|pp=170–173}}

===Strait of Magellan===
[[File:Strait of Magellan.jpeg|thumb|upright=1.15|The Strait of Magellan cuts through the southern tip of South America connecting the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean.]]
[[File:Magellan expedition by Stradanus.jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|An allegorical depiction of Magellan discovering the strait that would bear his name, created around 1592 by Flemish artist Johannes Stradanus.]]

On 18 October, the fleet left Santa Cruz heading south, resuming their search for a passage. Soon after, on 21 October 1520, they spotted a headland at 52°S latitude which they named Cape Virgenes. Past the cape, they found a large bay. While they were exploring the bay, a storm erupted. The ''Trinidad'' and ''Victoria'' made it out to open seas, but the ''Concepción'' and ''San Antonio'' were driven deeper into the bay, toward a [[Earth:Promontory|promontory]]. Three days later, the fleet was reunited, and the ''Concepción'' and ''San Antonio'' reported that the storm drew them through a narrow passage, not visible from sea, which continued for some distance. Hoping they had finally found their sought-after strait, the fleet retraced the path taken by the ''Concepción'' and ''San Antonio''. Unlike at Río de la Plata earlier, the water did not lose its salinity as they progressed, and soundings indicated that the waters were consistently deep. This was the passage they sought, which would come to be known as the Strait of Magellan. At the time, Magellan referred to it as the {{lang|es|Estrecho (Canal) de Todos los Santos}} ("All Saints' Channel") because the fleet travelled through it on 1 November or All Saints' Day.

On 28 October, the fleet reached an island in the strait (likely Isabel Island or Dawson Island), which could be passed in one of two directions. Magellan directed the fleet to split up to explore the respective paths. They were meant to regroup within a few days, but the ''San Antonio'' would never rejoin the fleet.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|pp=189–190}} While the rest of the fleet waited for the return of the ''San Antonio'', Gonzalo de Espinosa led a small ship to explore the further reaches of the strait. After three days of sailing, they reached the end of the strait and the mouth of the Pacific Ocean. After another three days, Espinosa returned. Pigafetta writes that, on hearing the news of Espinosa's discovery, Magellan wept tears of joy.{{sfn|Cameron|1974|p=133}} The fleet's remaining three ships completed the journey to the Pacific by 28 November after weeks of fruitlessly searching for the ''San Antonio''.{{sfn|Cameron|1974|p=136}} Magellan named the waters the ''Mar Pacifico'' (Pacific Ocean) because of its apparent stillness.<ref name="NewAdvent09526b">{{Cite book |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09526b.htm |title=Catholic Encyclopedia |publisher=New Advent |chapter=Ferdinand Magellan |access-date=14 January 2007 |archive-date=13 January 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070113184512/http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09526b.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

====Desertion of ''San Antonio''====
[[File:Descubrimiento del Estrecho de Magallanes.jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|''Descubrimiento del estrecho de Magallanes'' (Discovery of the Strait of Magellan), oil painting by Álvaro Casanova Zenteno.]]
The ''San Antonio'' failed to rejoin the rest of Magellan's fleet in the strait. At some point, they reversed course and sailed back to Spain. The ship's officers later testified that they had arrived early at the appointed rendezvous location, but it's not clear whether this is true.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=191}} The pilot of the ''San Antonio'' at the time, Álvaro de Mezquita, was Magellan's cousin and loyal to the captain-general. He directed attempts to rejoin the fleet, firing cannons and setting off smoke signals. At some point he was overpowered in yet another mutiny attempt, this one successful. He was stabbed by the pilot of the ''San Antonio'', Estêvão Gomes, and put in chains for the remainder of the journey.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=192}} Gomes was known to have feelings of animosity towards Magellan (as documented by Pigafetta, who wrote that "Gomes... hated the Captain General exceedingly", because he had hoped to have his own expedition to the Moluccas funded instead of Magellan's{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=188}}), and shortly before the fleet was separated, had argued with him about their next course of action. While Magellan and the other officers agreed to continue west to the Moluccas, thinking that their 2–3 months of rations would be sufficient for the journey, Gomes argued that they should return to Spain the way they had come, to muster more supplies for another journey through the strait.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|pp=187–188}}

The ''San Antonio'' reached Seville approximately six months later, on 8 May 1521, with 55 survivors.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1521 |title=Carta de los oficiales de la Casa de la Contratación de las Indias al emperador Carlos V, sobre regreso de la nao "San Antonio" y denuncias de sus mandos de los excesos de Fernando de Magallanes. |url=http://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas20/catalogo/description/122223 |access-date=17 March 2022 |publisher=Consejo de Indias |language=Spanish |archive-date=17 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220317153047/http://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas20/catalogo/description/122223 |url-status=live }}</ref> There ensued a trial of the ship's men which lasted six months. With Mezquita being the only one loyal to Magellan, the majority of testimony produced a villainous and distorted picture of Magellan's actions. In particular, in justifying the mutiny at St. Julian, the men claimed that Magellan had tortured Spanish seamen (during the return journey across the Atlantic, Mezquita was tortured into signing a statement to this effect) and claimed that they were merely trying to make Magellan follow the king's orders. Ultimately, none of the mutineers faced charges in Spain. Magellan's reputation suffered as a result, as did his friends and family. Mezquita was kept in jail for a year following the trial, and Magellan's wife, Beatriz, had her financial resources cut off and was placed under house arrest along with their son.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|pp=297–312}}

==Pacific crossing==
[[File:Schöner globe 1520 western hemisphere.jpg|thumb|The western hemisphere of Johannes Schöner's globe, created in 1520, reflects Europeans' misconception of the proximity of South America and Asia. (''Zipangri'', the large island outlined in yellow, is Japan)]]

Magellan (along with contemporary geographers) had no conception of the vastness of the Pacific Ocean. He imagined that South America was separated from the Spice Islands by a small sea, which he expected to cross in as little as three or four days.{{sfn|Cameron|1974|p=145}} In fact, they spent three months and twenty days at sea, before reaching Guam and then the Philippines.

The fleet entered the Pacific from the Strait of Magellan on 28 November 1520 and initially sailed north, following the coast of {{wipe|Chile}}. By mid-December, they altered their course to west-north-west.{{sfn|Cameron|1974|p=149}} They were unfortunate in that, had their course differed slightly, they might have encountered a number of Pacific islands which would have offered fresh food and water, such as the Marshall Islands, the Society Islands, the Solomon Islands or the [[Earth:Marquesas Islands|Marquesas Islands]]. As it was, they encountered only two small uninhabited islands during the crossing, at which they were unable to land, the reason why they named them ''Islas Infortunadas''. The first, sighted 24 January, they named San Pablo (likely Puka-Puka).{{sfn|Cameron|1974|p=159}} The second, which they sighted 21 February, was likely Caroline Island.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=218}} They crossed the equator on 13 February.

Not expecting such a long journey, the ships were not stocked with adequate food and water, and much of the seal meat they had stocked putrefied in the equatorial heat. Pigafetta described the desperate conditions in his journal:

<blockquote>we only ate old biscuit reduced to powder, and full of grubs, and stinking from the dirt which the rats had made on it when eating the good biscuit, and we drank water that was yellow and stinking. We also ate the ox hides which were under the main-yard, so that the yard should not break the rigging: they were very hard on account of the sun, rain, and wind, and we left them for four or five days in the sea, and then we put them a little on the embers, and so ate them; also the sawdust of wood, and rats which cost half-a-crown each, moreover enough of them were not to be got.<ref name="piga" /></blockquote>

Moreover, most of the men suffered from symptoms of [[Medicine:Scurvy|scurvy]], whose cause was not understood at the time. Pigafetta reported that, of the 166 men{{sfn|Castro et al.|2010|p=538}}{{sfn|Castro|2018|p=44}}{{Request quotation|date=November 2019}} who embarked on the Pacific crossing, 19 died and "twenty-five or thirty fell ill of diverse sicknesses".<ref name="piga" /> Magellan, Pigafetta, and other officers were not afflicted with scorbutic symptoms, which may have been because they ate preserved [[Biology:Quince|quince]] which (unbeknownst to them) contained the [[Biology:Vitamin C|vitamin C]] necessary to protect against scurvy.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|pp=217–218}}

==Guam and the Philippines==
On 6 March 1521, the fleet reached the Mariana Islands. The first land they spotted was likely the island of Rota, but the ships were unable to land there. Instead, they dropped anchor thirty hours later on Guam, where they were met by native Chamorro people in proas, a type of [[Engineering:Outrigger canoe|outrigger canoe]] then unknown to Europeans. Dozens of Chamorros came aboard and began taking items from the ship, including rigging, knives, and any items made of iron. At some point, there was a physical confrontation between the crew and the natives, and at least one Chamorro was killed. The remaining natives fled with the goods they had obtained, also taking Magellan's bergantina (the [[Engineering:Ship's boat|ship's boat]] kept on the ''Trinidad'') as they retreated.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|pp=224–226}}{{sfn|Cameron|1974|pp=167–169}} For this act, Magellan called the island ''Isla de los Ladrones'' (Island of Thieves).{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=229}}

The next day, Magellan retaliated, sending a raiding party ashore which looted and burned forty or fifty Chamorro houses and killed seven men.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=226}} They recovered the bergantina and left Guam the next day, 9 March, continuing westward.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|pp=229–231}}

===The Philippines===
The fleet reached the Philippines on 16 March, and remained there until 1 May. The expedition represented the first documented European contact with the Philippines.{{sfn|Suárez|1999|p=138}} Although the stated goals of Magellan's expedition were to find a passage through South America to the Moluccas and return to Spain laden with spices, at this point in the journey, Magellan seemed to acquire a zeal for converting the local tribes to Christianity. In doing so, Magellan eventually became embroiled in a local political dispute, and died in the Philippines, along with dozens of other officers and crew.

On 16 March, a week after leaving Guam, the fleet first sighted the island of Samar, then landed on the island of Homonhon, which was then uninhabited. They encountered friendly locals from the nearby island of Suluan and traded supplies with them. They spent nearly two weeks on Homonhon, resting and gathering fresh food and water, before leaving on 27 March.{{sfn|Cameron|1974|p=173}} On the morning of 28 March, they neared the island of Limasawa and encountered some natives in canoes who then alerted [[Engineering:Balangay|balangay]] warships of two local rulers from Mindanao who were on a hunting expedition in Limasawa. For the first time on the journey, Magellan's slave Enrique of Malacca found that he was able to communicate with the natives in [[Social:Malay language|Malay]] (an indication that they had indeed completed a circumnavigation, and were approaching familiar lands).{{sfn|Cameron|1974|p=173}} They exchanged gifts with the natives (receiving porcelain jars painted with Chinese designs), and later that day, Magellan was introduced to their leaders, Rajah Kolambu{{#tag:ref|
Variously romanised in different sources as ''Kolambu'', ''Colembu'', ''Kulambu'', ''Calambu'' etc.|group="n"
}} and Rajah Siawi. Afterwards, Magellan would become a "blood brother" to Kolambu, undergoing the local blood compact ritual with him.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|pp=244–245}}

Magellan and his men noted that the Rajahs had golden body ornaments and served food on golden plates. They were told by the Rajahs that gold was plentiful in their homelands in Butuan and Calagan (Surigao), and found that the locals were eager to trade it for iron at par. While at Limasawa, Magellan gave some of the natives a demonstration of Spanish armour, weapons, and artillery, by which they were apparently impressed.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|pp=243, 245}}

===First mass===
On Sunday, 31 March, Easter Day, Magellan and fifty of his men came ashore to Limasawa to participate in the first Catholic [[Religion:Mass (liturgy)|Mass]] in the Philippines, given by the armada's chaplain. Kolambu, his brother (who was also a local leader), and other islanders joined in the ceremony and expressed an interest in their religion. Following Mass, Magellan's men raised a [[Religion:Christian cross|cross]] on the highest hill on the island, and formally declared the island, and the entire archipelago of the Philippines (which he called the Islands of St Lazarus) as a possession of Spain.{{sfn|Cameron|1974|p=177}}

===Cebu===
On 2 April, Magellan held a conference to decide the fleet's next course of action. His officers urged him to head south-west for the Mollucas, but instead he decided to press further into the Philippines. On 3 April, the fleet sailed north-west from Limasawa towards the island of Cebu, which Magellan learned of from Kolambu. The fleet was guided to Cebu by some of Kolambu's men.{{sfn|Cameron|1974|p=180}} They sighted Cebu 6 April, and made landfall the next day. Cebu had regular contact with Chinese and Arab traders and normally required that visitors pay tribute in order to trade. Magellan convinced the island's leader, Rajah Humabon, to waive this requirement.

As he had in Limasawa, Magellan gave a demonstration of the fleet's arms in order to impress the locals. Again, he also preached Christianity to the natives, and on 14 April, Humabon and his family were baptised and given an image of the Holy Child (later known as Santo Niño de Cebu). In the coming days, other local chieftains were baptised, and in total, 2,200 locals from Cebu and other nearby islands were converted.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=271}}

When Magellan learned that a group on the island of Mactan, led by Lapu-Lapu, resisted Christian conversion, he ordered his men to burn their homes. When they continued to resist, Magellan informed his council on 26 April that he would bring an armed contingent to Mactan and make them submit under threat of force.{{sfn|Cameron|1974|p=187}}

===Battle of Mactan===

[[File:Magellans death.jpg|thumb|upright|19th-century artist's depiction of Magellan's death at the hands of Mactan warriors.]]

Magellan mustered a force of 60 armed men from his crew to oppose Lapu-Lapu's forces. Some Cebuano men followed Magellan to Mactan, but were instructed by Magellan not to join the fight, but merely to watch.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=277}} He first sent an envoy to Lapu-Lapu, offering him a last chance to accept the king of Spain as their ruler and avoid bloodshed. Lapu-Lapu refused. Magellan took 49 men to the shore while 11 remained to guard the boats. Though they had the benefit of relatively advanced armour and weaponry, Magellan's forces were greatly outnumbered. Pigafetta (who was present on the battlefield) estimated the enemy's number at 1,500.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=279}} Magellan's forces were driven back and decisively defeated. Magellan died in battle, along with several comrades, including Cristóvão Rebelo, Magellan's illegitimate son.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=281}}

===1 May Massacre===
Following Magellan's death, the remaining men held an election to select a new leader for the expedition. They selected two co-commanders: Duarte Barbosa, Magellan's brother-in-law, and Juan Serrano. Magellan's will called for the liberation of his slave, Enrique, but Barbosa and Serrano demanded that he continue his duties as an interpreter for them, and follow their orders. Enrique had some secret communication with Humabon which caused him to betray the Spaniards.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=292}}

On 1 May, Humabon invited the men ashore for a great feast. It was attended by around thirty men, mostly officers, including Serrano and Barbosa. Towards the end of the meal, armed Cebuanos entered the hall and murdered the Europeans. Twenty-seven men were killed. Juan Serrano, one of the newly elected co-commanders, was left alive and brought to the shore facing the Spanish ships. Serrano begged the men on board to pay a ransom to the Cebuanos. The Spanish ships left port, and Serrano was (presumably) killed. In his account, Pigafetta speculates that João Carvalho, who became first in command in the absence of Barbosa and Serrano, abandoned Serrano (his one-time friend) so that he could remain in command of the fleet.{{sfn|Cameron|1974|p=197}}

==Moluccas==
With just 115 surviving men, out of the 277 who had sailed from Seville, it was decided the fleet did not have enough men to continue operating three ships. On 2 May, the ''Concepción'' was emptied and set on fire.{{sfn|Cameron|1974|p=197}} With Carvalho as the new captain-general, the remaining two ships, the ''Trinidad'' and ''Victoria'', spent the next six months meandering through Southeast Asia in search of the Moluccas. On the way, they stopped at several islands including Mindanao and Brunei. During this time, they engaged in acts of piracy, including robbing a [[Engineering:Junk (ship)|junk]] bound for China from the Moluccas.{{sfn|Cameron|1974|p=198}}

On 21 September, Carvalho was made to step down as captain-general. He was replaced by Martin Mendez, with Gonzalo de Espinosa and Juan Sebastián Elcano as captains of the ''Trinidad'' and ''Victoria'', respectively.

Aganduru Moriz' account of the expedition<ref name="AganduruMoriz1882" /> describes how Elcano's crew was attacked somewhere off the southeastern tip of Borneo by a Bruneian fleet commanded by one of the Luzones. Historians such as William Henry Scott and Luis Camara Dery assert that this commander of the Bruneian Fleet was actually the young prince Ache of Maynila (Manila) a grandson of the Bruneian sultan who would later become Maynila's Rajah Matanda.<ref name="AganduruMoriz1882">{{Cite book |last=de Aganduru Moriz |first=Rodrigo |title=Historia general de las Islas Occidentales a la Asia adyacentes, llamadas Philipinas |series=Colección de Documentos inéditos para la historia de España, v. 78–79. |publisher=Impr. de Miguel Ginesta |year=1882 |location=Madrid}}</ref>{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=330}}

Elcano, however, was able to defeat and capture Ache.<ref name="AganduruMoriz1882" />  According to Scott, Ache was eventually released after a ransom was paid.<ref name="Scott1994">{{Cite book |last=Scott |first=William Henry |title=Barangay: Sixteenth Century Philippine Culture and Society |date=1994 |publisher=Ateneo de Manila University Press |isbn=971-550-135-4 |location=Quezon City |}}</ref> Nevertheless, Ache left a Spanish speaking Moor in Elcano's crew to assist the ship on the way back to Spain, "a Moor who understood something of our Castilian language, who was called Pazeculan."<ref>'El libro que trajo la nao Vitoria de las amistades que hitieron con 10s Reyes de Maluco" (Archivo General de Indias, Indiferente General 1528), text in Mauricio Obregon, La primera vuelta al Mundo (Bogota, 1984), p. 300.</ref> This knowledge of the Spanish language was scattered across the Indian Ocean and even into Southeast Asia after the Castilian conquest of the Emirate of Granada forced the Spanish speaking Granadan Muslims to migrate across the Muslim world even as far as Islamic Manila.<ref>Damiao de Gois, Cronica do felicissimo rei de. Manuel (Lisboa, 1566), part 2, p. 113.</ref>

The ships finally reached the Moluccas on 8 November, when they reached the island of Tidore. They were greeted by the island's leader, al-Mansur (known to the officers by the Spanish name ''Almanzor'').{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=341}} Almanzor was a friendly host to the men, and readily claimed loyalty to the king of Spain. A trading post was established in Tidore and the men set about purchasing massive quantities of cloves in exchange for goods such as cloth, knives, and glassware.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|pp=349–350}}

Around 15 December, the ships attempted to set sail from Tidore, laden with cloves. But the ''Trinidad'', which had fallen into disrepair, was found to be taking on water. The departure was postponed while the men, aided by the locals, attempted to find and repair the leak. When these attempts were unsuccessful, it was decided that the ''Victoria'' would leave for Spain via a western route, and that the ''Trinidad'' would remain behind for some time to be refitted, before heading back to Spain by an eastern route, involving an overland passage across the American continent.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|pp=363–365}} Several weeks later, ''Trinidad'' departed and attempted to return to Spain via the Pacific route. This attempt failed. ''Trinidad'' was captured by the Portuguese, and was eventually wrecked in a storm while at anchor under Portuguese control.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|pp=381}}

==Return to Spain==
The ''Victoria'' set sail via the Indian Ocean route home on 21 December 1521, commanded by Juan Sebastián Elcano. By 6 May 1522 the ''Victoria'' rounded the Cape of Good Hope, with only rice for rations. Twenty crewmen died of starvation by 9 July 1522, when Elcano put into Portuguese Cape Verde for provisions. The crew was [[Physics:International Date Line#Circumnavigating the globe|surprised to learn that the date]] was actually 10 July 1522,{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=386}} a day after their own meticulous records indicated. They had no trouble making purchases at first, using the cover story that they were returning to Spain from the Americas. However, the Portuguese detained 13 crew members after discovering that ''Victoria'' was carrying spices from the East Indies.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Morison |first=Samuel Eliot |title=The Great Explorers: The European Discovery of America |date=1986 |publisher=[[Organization:Oxford University Press|Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-504222-1 |page=667 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Koch |first=Peter O. |title=To the Ends of the Earth: The Age of the European Explorers |date=2015 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-8380-8 |language=en}}</ref> The ''Victoria'' managed to escape with its cargo of 26 [[Ton|ton]]s of spices (cloves and [[Biology:Cinnamon|cinnamon]]).

On 6 September 1522, Elcano and the remaining crew of Magellan's voyage arrived in Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain aboard ''Victoria'', almost exactly three years after they departed. They then sailed upriver to Seville, and from there overland to Valladolid, where they appeared before the Emperor.

===Survivors===
When ''Victoria'', the one surviving ship and the smallest carrack in the fleet, returned to the harbour of departure after completing the first circumnavigation of the Earth, only 18 men out of the original 270 men were on board. In addition to the returning Europeans, the ''Victoria'' had aboard three Moluccans who came aboard at Tidore.{{sfn|Joyner|1992|p=264}}

{| class="wikitable"
|+ 18 men returned to Seville aboard ''Victoria'' in 1522{{sfn|Kelsey|2016|pp=141}}
|-
! Name !! Origin !! Final rank
|-
| Juan Sebastián Elcano || Getaria || Captain
|-
| Francisco Albo || Chios || Pilot
|-
| Miguel de Rodas ||Rhodes || Shipmaster
|-
| Juan de Acurio|| Bermeo || Boatswain
|-
| Martín de Judicibus || Savona || Sailor
|-
| Hernándo de Bustamante || Mérida || Barber
|-
| Antonio Pigafetta || Vicenza || Man-At-Arms
|-
| {{ill|Maestre Anes|de|vertical-align=sup}} (Hans)<ref>Lived ca. 1500-1545, also took part in the Loaisa-expedition of 1525, was saved by the Saavedra expedition and returned to Europe in 1534. He was the first human to circumvent the earth two times.</ref> || Aachen || Gunner
|-
| Diego Gallego || Bayona || Sailor
|-
| Antonio Hernández Colmenero || Huelva || Sailor
|-
| Nícolas de Napolés || [[Place:Nafplio|Nafplio]] || Sailor
|-
| Francisco Rodríguez || Sevilla || Sailor
|-
| Juan Rodríguez de Huelva || Huelva || Sailor
|-
| Miguel de Rodas || Rhodes || Sailor
|-
| Juan de Arratía || Bilbao || Shipboy
|-
| Juan de Santander (Sant Andrés) || Cueto || Shipboy
|-
| Vasco Gómez Gallego || Bayona || Shipboy
|-
| Juan de Zubileta || Barakaldo || Page
|}

King Charles pressed for the release of the 12 men held captive by the Portuguese in Cape Verde, and they were eventually returned to Spain in small groups over the course of the following year.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=406}} They were:

{| class="wikitable"
|+ 12 men returned to Spain from Cape Verde{{sfn|Kelsey|2016|p=146}}
|-
! Name !! Origin !! Final rank
|-
| Martín Méndez || Sevilla || Scrivener
|-
| Pedro de Tolosa || Tolosa || Sailor
|-
| Richard de Normandía || Normandy, France || Carpenter
|-
| Roldán de Argote || Bruges || Gunner
|-
| Felipe de Rodas || Rhodes || Sailor
|-
| Gómez Hernández || Huelva || Sailor
|-
| Ocacio Alonso || Bollullos || Sailor
|-
| Pedro de Chindurza || Galvey || Shipboy
|-
| Vasquito Gallego || Bayona || Shipboy
|-
| Juan Martín || Bayona || Man-At-Arms
|-
| Pedro de Tenerife || [[Earth:Tenerife|Tenerife]] || Man-At-Arms
|-
| Simon de Burgos || Burgos || Man-At-Arms
|}

Between 1525 and 1526, the survivors of the ''Trinidad'', who had been captured by the Portuguese in the Moluccas, were transported to a prison in Portugal and eventually released after a seven-month negotiation. Only five survived:{{sfn|Kelsey|2016|p=148}}

{| class="wikitable"
|+ 5 men returning between 1525 and 1526{{sfn|Kelsey|2016|p=146}}
|-
! Name !! Origin !! Final rank
|-
| Ginés de Mafra || Jerez || Sailor
|-
| Leone Pancaldo || Genoa || Sailor
|-
| Hans Varga ({{ill|Hans Barge|de|vertical-align=sup}})<ref group="n">A German (before 1500-1527), captured at Tidore 1522 and spent the rest of his live in Portuguese captivity, died in Portugal.</ref> || {{wipe|Germany}} || Constable
|-
| Juan Rodríguez "El Sordo" || Sevilla || Sailor
|-
| Gonzalo Gómez de Espinosa || Burgos || Alguacil Mayor
|}

The following five nonsurvivors are considered to have successfully circumnavigated since they died after the Victoria and Trinidad had crossed the tracks of the outbound fleet.{{sfn|Kelsey|2016|p=148}}

{| class="wikitable"
|+ 5 men buried at sea after completing the circumnavigation{{sfn|Kelsey|2016|p=148}}
|-
! Name !! Origin !! Final rank
|-
| Diego Garcia de Trigueros || Huelva || Sailor
|-
| Pedro de Valpuesta  || Burgos || Man-At-Arms
|-
| Martín de Magallanes || [[Place:Lisbon|Lisbon]] || Man-At-Arms
|-
| Estevan Villon || Trosic, Brittany || Sailor
|-
| Andrés Blanco || [[Earth:Tenerife|Tenerife]] || Shipboy
|}

==Accounts of voyage==
[[File:Maximiliani Transyluani Caesaris a secretis Espistola Roma 1523.png|thumb|upright=0.8|Cover page of Roman edition of Maximilianus Transylvanus's ''De Moluccis Insulis...''. Initially published in Cologne in January 1523, it was the first account of the Magellan expedition to appear in print.{{sfn|Joyner|1992|p=349}}]]
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Antonio Pigafetta's journal, later published as ''Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo'', is the main primary source for much of what is known about Magellan's expedition.{{sfn|Bergreen|2003|p=63}} The first published report of the circumnavigation was a letter written by Maximilianus Transylvanus, a relative of sponsor Cristóbal de Haro, who interviewed survivors in 1522 and published his account in 1523 under the title ''De Moluccis Insulis...''.{{sfn|Joyner|1992|p=349}}{{sfn|Castro et al.|2010|pp=23, 71, 883–918, 1033–1034}} Initially published in Latin, other editions later appeared in Italian, Spanish, and English.{{sfn|Joyner|1992|p=349}}

In addition, there is an extant chronicle from Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, which was written in Spanish in 1522 or 1523, misplaced, then published again in 1530.{{sfn|Castro et al.|2010|pp=71, 919–942, 1021}}

Another reliable secondary source is the 1601 chronicle and the longer 1615 version, both by Spanish historian Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas. Herrera's account is all the more accurate as he had access to Spanish and Portuguese sources that are nowhere to be found today, not least Andrés de San Martín's navigational notes and papers. San Martin, the chief pilot-cosmographer (astrologer) of the Armada, disappeared in the Cebu massacre on 1 May 1521.{{sfn|Castro et al.|2010|pp=506, 945–1015}}{{sfn|Fitzpatrick|Callaghan|2008|pp=149-150, 159}}

In addition to Pigafetta's surviving journal, 11 other crew members kept written accounts of the voyage:
* Francisco Albo: the Victoria's pilot logbook ("Diario ó derrotero"), first referred to in 1788, and first published in its entirety in 1837{{sfn|Castro et al.|2010|pp=659 & 660–696}}{{sfn|Castro|2018|p=300}} and a deposition on 18 October 1522{{sfn|Castro et al.|2010|pp=618–630}}
* Martín de Ayamonte: a short account first published in 1933{{sfn|Castro et al.|2010|pp=603–612}}{{sfn|Castro|2018|p=302}}
* Giovanni Battista: two letters dating from the 21 December 1521{{sfn|Castro et al.|2010|pp=599–601}} and 25 October 1525{{sfn|Castro et al.|2010|pp=841–845}}{{sfn|Castro|2018|p=303}} respectively
* Hernando de Bustamante: a deposition on 18 October 1522{{sfn|Castro et al.|2010|pp=618–630}}{{sfn|Castro|2018|pp=304–305}}
* Juan Sebastián Elcano: a letter written on 6 September 1522{{sfn|Castro et al.|2010|pp=613–616}} and a deposition on 18 October 1522{{sfn|Castro et al.|2010|pp=618–630}}{{sfn|Castro|2018|pp=308–309}}
* Gonzalo Gómez de Espinosa: a letter written on 12 January 1525,{{sfn|Castro et al.|2010|pp=837–840}} a statement on 2 August 1527{{sfn|Castro et al.|2010|pp=845–858}} and a deposition from the 2nd to the 5 September 1527{{sfn|Castro et al.|2010|pp=859–880}}{{sfn|Castro|2018|pp=313–314}}
* Ginés de Mafra: a detailed account first published in 1920,{{sfn|Castro et al.|2010|pp=697–732}} a statement on 2 August 1527{{sfn|Castro et al.|2010|pp=845–858}} and a deposition from 2 to 5 September 1527{{sfn|Castro et al.|2010|pp=859–880}}{{sfn|Castro|2018|pp=317–318}}
* Martín Méndez : the Victoria's logbook{{sfn|Castro et al.|2010|pp=631–657}}{{sfn|Castro|2018|pp=319–320}}
* Leone Pancaldo: a long logbook 'by the Genoese pilot' (first published in 1826),{{sfn|Castro et al.|2010|pp=733–755}} a letter written on 25 October 1525,{{sfn|Castro et al.|2010|pp=841–858}} a statement on 2 August 1527{{sfn|Castro et al.|2010|pp=859–861}} and a deposition from 2 to 5 September 1527{{sfn|Castro et al.|2010|pp=861–880}}{{sfn|Castro|2018|pp=323–324}}
* an anonymous Portuguese crew member: a long manuscript, first published in 1937, known as "the Leiden manuscript", possibly written by Gonzalo Gómez de Espinosa and, in all likelihood, a Trinidad crew member{{sfn|Castro et al.|2010|pp=757–782}}{{sfn|Castro|2018|pp=313–314}}
* and another anonymous Portuguese crew member: a very short account, first published in 1554, written by a Trinidad crew member{{sfn|Castro et al.|2010|pp=783–787}}

==Legacy==
===Subsequent expeditions===
Since there was not a set limit to the east, in 1524 both Portugal and Spain had tried to find the exact location of the antimeridian of Tordesillas, which would divide the world into two equal hemispheres and to resolve the "Moluccas issue". A board met several times without reaching an agreement: the knowledge at that time was insufficient for an accurate calculation of [[Earth:Longitude|longitude]], and each gave the islands to their sovereign.

In 1525, soon after the return of Magellan's expedition, Charles V sent an expedition led by García Jofre de Loaísa to occupy the Moluccas, claiming that they were in his zone of the Treaty of Tordesillas. This expedition included the most notable Spanish navigators, including Juan Sebastián Elcano, who, along with many other sailors, died during the voyage and the young Andrés de Urdaneta. They had difficulty reaching the Moluccas, docking at Tidore. The Portuguese were already established in nearby Ternate and the two nations had nearly a decade of skirmishing over the possession, which was still occupied by indigenous people.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}} An agreement was reached only with the Treaty of Zaragoza, signed in 1529 between Spain and Portugal. It assigned the Moluccas to Portugal and the Philippines to Spain.

In 1565, Andrés de Urdaneta discovered the [[Engineering:Manila galleon|Manila-Acapulco route]].

The course that Magellan charted was later followed by other navigators, such as Sir Francis Drake during his circumnavigation in 1578.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wagner |first=Henry R. |title=Sir Francis Drake's Voyage Around the World: Its Aims and Achievements |publisher=John Howell |year=1926 |location=San Francisco}}</ref> In 1960, the route was [[Engineering:Operation Sandblast|retraced completely submerged]] (with minor variations in course) by USS ''Triton''.

===Scientific accomplishments===
Magellan's expedition was the first to circumnavigate the globe and the first to navigate the strait in South America connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. Magellan's name for the Pacific was adopted by other Europeans.

Magellan's crew observed several animals that were entirely new to European science, including a "camel without humps", which was probably a guanaco, whose range extends to Tierra del Fuego. The llama, vicuña and alpaca natural ranges were in the Andes mountains. A black "goose" that had to be skinned instead of plucked was a penguin.{{citation needed|date=March 2015}}

The full extent of the globe was realised, since their voyage was 14,460 Spanish leagues (60,440&nbsp;km or 37,560&nbsp;mi). The global expedition showed the need for an [[Physics:International Date Line|International Date Line]] to be established. Upon arrival at Cape Verde, the crew was surprised to learn that the ship's date of 9 July 1522 was one day behind the local date of 10 July 1522, even though they had recorded every day of the three-year journey without omission. They lost one day because they travelled west during their circumnavigation of the globe, in the same direction as the apparent motion of the sun across the sky.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Maps of the Magellan Strait and a brief history of Ferdinand Magellan |url=http://www.themaphouse.com/SpecialistCatalogues/FerdinandMagellan.aspx |access-date=10 March 2006 |place=London |archive-date=18 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101218103203/http://www.themaphouse.com/SpecialistCatalogues/FerdinandMagellan.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref> Although the Kurdish geographer Abu'l-Fida (1273–1331) had predicted that circumnavigators would accumulate a one-day offset,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gunn |first=Geoffrey C. |title=Overcoming Ptolemy: The Revelation of an Asian World Region |date=15 October 2018 |publisher=Lexington Books |isbn=9781498590143 |location=Lanham, Maryland |pages=47–48}}</ref> Cardinal Gasparo Contarini was the first European to give a correct explanation of the discrepancy.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Winfree |first=Arthur T. |url=https://archive.org/details/geometrybiologic00winf_474 |title=The Geometry of Biological Time |date=2001 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-1-4757-3484-3 |edition=2nd |location=New York |page=[https://archive.org/details/geometrybiologic00winf_474/page/n33 10] |language=en |url-access=limited}}</ref>

===Quincentenary===
In 2017, Portugal submitted an application to [[Organization:UNESCO|UNESCO]] to honour the circumnavigation route; the proposal was for a World Heritage Site called "Route of Magellan".<ref name="WHS">{{Cite web |title=Route of Magellan |url= https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/6212 |access-date=23 October 2019 |url-status=live |archive-date=23 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191023122646/http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/6212}}</ref>

In 2019, there were a number of events to mark the 500th anniversary of the voyage including exhibitions in various Spanish cities.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Minder |first=Raphael |date=20 September 2019 |title=Who First Circled the Globe? Not Magellan, Spain Wants You to Know |work={{wipe|The New York Times}} |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/world/europe/spain-portugal-magellan.html |access-date=1 October 2019 |url-status=live |archive-date=24 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190924224252/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/world/europe/spain-portugal-magellan.html}}</ref>

To commemorate the 500th anniversary of Magellan's arrival in the Philippines, the National Quincentennial Committee put up monuments to mark the points where the fleet anchored.<ref>{{Cite news |title=PH to mark 'Filipino-centric' circumnavigation quincentennial |work=Philippine News Agency |url=https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1080116 |access-date=21 July 2020 |archive-date=21 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200721121255/https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1080116 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=March 18, 2021 |title=Quincentennial marker unveiled in Homonhon Island |work=CNN Philippines |url=https://www.cnnphilippines.com/regional/2021/3/18/Quincentennial-marker-unveiled-in-Homonhon-Island.html |access-date=17 April 2023 |archive-date=17 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417144811/https://www.cnnphilippines.com/regional/2021/3/18/Quincentennial-marker-unveiled-in-Homonhon-Island.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

==See also==
{{div col|colwidth=30em}}
* [[Age of Discovery]]
* Timeline of the Magellan expedition
* Chronology of European exploration of Asia
* History of the Philippines
* Military history of the Philippines
* Spanish colonization attempt of the Strait of Magellan
* [[Place:Spanish Empire|Spanish Empire]]
* Magallanica, hypothetical continent south of the Strait of Magellan
{{div col end}}

==Notes==
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* {{Cite book |last=Thomaz |first=Luís Filipe |title=O drama de Magalhães e a volta ao mundo sem querer |date=2018 |publisher=Gradiva |isbn=9789896168599 |location=Lisboa |language=pt}}
'''Spanish'''
* {{Cite book |last=Las Casas |first=Bartolomé de |title=Histoire des Indes |date=2002 |publisher=Paris : Seuil |language=fr}} [https://archive.org/details/HistoriaDeLasIndiasvol.3De5BartolomeDeLasCasas Historia de las Indias (vol. 3 de 5) - Bartolomé De Las Casas] (in Spanish)
* {{Cite book |last=Toribio Medina |first=José |title=Colección de documentos inéditos para la historia de Chile : desde el viaje de Magallanes hasta la batalla de Maipo : 1518-1818 |date=1888–1902 |language=es |publisher=Imprenta Ercilla |isbn=9781390781601 |location=Santiago}} [http://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/602/w3-article-79551.html Colección de documentos inéditos para la historia de Chile: desde el viaje de Magallanes hasta la batalla de Maipo: 1518-1818: tomo 7 - Memoria Chilena] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191019190545/http://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/602/w3-article-79551.html |date=19 October 2019 }}
* {{cite book |editor-last=Walls y Merino |first=Manuel |translator=Carlos Amoretti |author=Antonio Pigafetta |display-authors=0 |title=Primer Viaje Alrededor del Mundo... |date=1899 |publisher=n/a |url=http://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/archivos2/pdfs/MC0000793.pdf |location=Madrid |language=es |access-date=31 January 2023 |url-status=live |archive-date=31 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230131163507/http://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/archivos2/pdfs/MC0000793.pdf |ref={{harvid|Walls y Merino|1899}}}}
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==External links==
* {{in lang|es}} [http://vcentenario.es/ Primera vuelta al mundo Magallanes-Elcano. V Centenario]. Official site for the 5th centenary of the expedition.


[[Category:Circumnavigations]]

{{Sourceattribution|Magellan expedition}}