When Did Magellan Finish Sailing Around The World?

Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese navigator and explorer, set out from Spain in 1519 with a fleet of five ships to discover a western sea route to the Spice Islands. The expedition, which began in September 1519, was part of an epic attempt to find a western route to the spice-rich East Indies in modern-day Indonesia. Magellan’s expedition was the first voyage around the world in human history, and he set sail from Sanlucar de Barrameda with five ships and a crew of 270 men.

The expedition revealed the vast scale of the Pacific Ocean and proved that ships could sail around the world on a western sea route. Magellan’s plan was presented to King Charles I of Spain, who gave his blessing. However, only one ship, the Victoria, made it back to Spain after circumnavigating the world.

Magellan’s expedition was tumultuous, with Magellan himself dying during the journey. Juan Sebastián Elcano completed the first known circumnavigation of the globe in September 1522, and Magellan himself died during the tumultuous three-year voyage. The Spanish expedition to the Spice Islands, led by Magellan, set sail with five ships in 1519, and the journey was completed in 1522.

Did Magellan died during his attempt to sail around the world?

Did Magellan get home safely?. No: he was killed in a fight with islanders in the Philippines. He died on 27 April 1521 on Mactan Island, Cebu, Philippines.

So although he had masterminded the first expedition to sail around the world, he didn’t complete the voyage. In fact, the first person to sail around the world was a Malaysian, who had come back to Europe with Magellan many years before and then went as an interpreter on his later voyage. The first European to complete the circumnavigation was Magellan’s second-in-command, Juan Sebastian de Elcano, who took over after his death.

How many men returned to Spain?. Of all the men who sailed with Magellan, only 18 returned to Spain in 1522. People were amazed when they saw those on board the one remaining ship, Victoria, for they looked starved and filthy.

Did people make use of the trade route Magellan had discovered?. The western sea route to the Spice Islands was not used for many years. Spain was too busy taking land in South America, and it was easier for the Portuguese to get to the East by sailing around the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa.

How long was Magellan’s voyage around the world?

About 3 years It was a Spanish expedition that sailed from Seville in 1519 under the initial command of Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese sailor, and completed in 1522 by Spanish Basque navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano. The route of the Victoria, which completed the world’s first recorded circumnavigation over about 3 years.

The Magellan expedition (10 August or 20 September 1519– 6 September 1522) was the first voyage around the world in human history. It was a Spanish expedition that sailed from Seville in 1519 under the initial command of Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese sailor, and completed in 1522 by Spanish Basque navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano.

The initial goal of the voyage was to secure funding to explore the possibility of a southwestern passage around South America to China and the Spice Islands (now part of Indonesia). After crossing the Atlantic, wintering in Patagonia, and suppressing a mutiny, the expedition found and transited the Straits of Magellan in 1520. After crossing the Pacific Ocean to the Philippines, Magellan was killed during a raid on the Mactan chief Lapulapu in 1521. The ship Victoria under Juan Sebastian Elcano—who began the expedition as a boatswain— took command of the expedition and sailed into the open Indian Ocean, avoided landing in South Africa despite the resulting starvation, and bluffed his way into resupply at the Cape Verde Islands before completing the first circumnavigation on 6 September 1522. Of the initial 270 crew members, only 18 sailors completed the entire journey.

June 7: The Treaty of Tordesillas amends a series of earlier papal bulls to divide the newly discovered territories of the world between the Spanish and Portuguese Empires 370leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands. Importantly, it provides for a Portuguese monopoly on trade around Africa but leaves open the possibility of Spanish exploration further west to the antimeridian of the division.;

Who was the first person to sail around the world without stopping?

Sir Robin Knox-Johnston SIR ROBIN WAS THE FIRST TO SAIL SINGLE HANDED AND NON-STOP AROUND THE WORLD BETWEEN 14 JUNE 1968 AND 22 APRIL 1969. More than 50 years have gone by since Sir Robin Knox-Johnston made history by becoming the first man to sail solo and non-stop around the globe in 1968-69.

In 1968 the British newspaper The Sunday Times announced the award of a trophy, the Golden Globe, for the first person to sail single handed and non-stop around the world.

The longest non-stop voyage until then was achieved by Sir Francis Chichester in 1966-67, when he circumnavigated the world with one stop in Australia. His boat had needed a major re-fit halfway, and no one was certain a yacht could be kept serviceable for 30,000 miles, let alone survive the conditions to be expected, nor whether a human could keep going that long alone.

Nevertheless, a solo non-stop circumnavigation was the one great voyage left to be made.

How many of Magellan’s crew survived?

Second-smallest of the five ships of Ferdinand Magellan’s Armada de Molucca, the Victoria was a Spanish carrack or nao (ship). It was named after the church of Santa María de la Victoria de Triana (Seville, Spain) where Magellan, the Portuguese captain-general, had taken an oath of allegiance to nineteen-year-old Spanish king Charles I before setting sail in August 1519. The exact dimensions of the ship are not known, but it weighed eighty-five tons and carried forty-four men. Victoria alone returned to Spain in September 1522, carrying twenty-six tons of cloves in its hold, worth more than twice the cost of the whole Magellan expedition. There were only 18 survivors from the original five-ship roster of 237 men. After the voyage, the battered vessel was repaired and sold to a merchant. As late as 1570, Victoria was still plying the Atlantic as a workhorse for the Spanish conquest of the Americas when it was lost, with all hands aboard, en route to Seville from the Antilles.

After what seemed an interminable five months, the remaining four ships of the armada weighed anchor on August 24, 1520. Foul weather hindered their progress, but on October 21 (the feast day of St. Ursula of the Eleven Thousand Virgins), around 52° S latitude, they reached a headland they called the Cape of the Eleven Thousand Virgins (today’s Vírgenes), beyond which, cutting into the landmass, stretched a broad and deep waterway with strong currents: it was the longed-for strait. Navigating its 350 miles would prove to be a nautical nightmare, owing to the high tides (up to twenty-four feet) and strong winds and currents. Magellan methodically advanced into this Never Never Land. Seeing distant fires at night, indicative of human settlements, he named the area Tierra del Fuego, Land of Fire. After thirty-eight days, negotiating channels, bays, and glacier-fed fjords, past huge, snow-capped mountains and coarse, evergreen shores, surviving a fierce williwaw and the rebellion of another ship—San Antonio, the largest in the fleet, containing many provisions, had stealthily headed back to Spain—Magellan achieved part of his goal: the Pacific Ocean. Overcoming all of the challenges was a remarkable testament to his abilities as a navigator and strategist and to his crews’ forbearance and skill. The three ships reached Cape Desire on November 28, 1520, and entered an ocean Magellan called pacific for its mildness. According to historical weather research, Magellan probably benefited from El Niño, which provided calm winds across the Pacific during his crossing. (Note that later, however, after exiting the Magellan Strait, Sir Francis Drake would encounter very strong westerlies that forced him far south and east, into what would become known as the Drake Passage.) Some cautionary notes were sounded, for supplies were low and great danger inevitably awaited them. Yet all realized that the voyage was worthless without reaching the Spice Islands, which they assumed would be a short distance away. Of course, no one realized that the greatest expanse of water on the planet lay ahead. And Magellan’s course, first northward along the western coast of South America and then west, unluckily avoided virtually all of the ocean’s twenty-five thousand islands. In fact, during the transpacific crossing, they sighted land only once—barren atolls of the Tuamotu Islands, which Magellan dubbed Islands of Disappointment—before reaching Guam in the Ladrones (“Islands of Thieves,” today’s Marianas) on March 6, 1521, after ninety-eight days on the ocean. Pigafetta spent much of that time with Paul, their captive Patagonian Giant, learning some of his language and converting him to Christianity just before he died. Scurvy made its deathly appearance and carried off about thirty of the men, who had been reduced to eating biscuits swarming with worms, drinking putrid yellow water, soaking (softening) then chewing the ox-hide top coverings of sails, eating sawdust from boards, and trading rats. The officers fared better for reasons unknown to them: they had a supply of preserved quince, a potent anti-scorbutic. Magellan was desperate and depressed, confounded by the distance and amount of time they had spent sailing. They approached Guam with great relief yet caution, anchoring in a large turquoise lagoon (today’s Umatac Bay). The taller, stronger indigenous people, the Chamorros, surrounded the fleet in their proas (their multihulled sailing canoes), quickly boarded the flagship, and started stealing anything loose that they could. Altercations developed, guns were fired, arrows shot, but the fighting subsided when Magellan ordered his men to stop—soon food was being distributed to the starving crew and some trading took place. However, when the captain’s skiff was stolen, Magellan sent a raiding party ashore the next day: many houses were burned and seven native men killed. A template for European first encounters with Pacific peoples had been created. Guam was not the Spice Islands, and so the fleet moved on to points still unknown, reaching Homonhom Island at the edge of the Philippine archipelago on March 16. Magellan’s servant, Enrique, who had been with him since Malacca days, was able to communicate with a nearby island’s inhabitants, whose Filipino leader, Rajah Kolambu, treated Magellan like royalty. Wanting to impress, Magellan demonstrated the Spaniards’ weaponry and offered to subdue the king’s enemies. Kolambu offered pilots to lead them to a larger, more impressive island, Cebu, ruled by an ally, Raja Humabon. There the fleet arrived on April 7. Humabon and Magellan quickly formed a tight bond as blood brothers. Once Humabon and his queen were baptized as Christians, their subjects followed suit. Tribute to Magellan was given, allegiance to Spain was offered—it seemed too perfect. Buoyed by these developments and his own confidence, Magellan demanded obedience from neighboring islands to Humabon and the conversion of their inhabitants to Christianity. (He was exceeding the instructions King Charles had given him.) One of the two chieftains of Mactan, Lapu Lapu, refused and challenged Magellan to a fight. Determined to show the power of the Spanish armored warriors, and against the advice of his own men to engage in a needless battle, Magellan sailed to Mactan on Saturday, April 27, 1521. The coastal water was shallow, forcing the ships to anchor well offshore. The men had to wade through two crossbow flights of thigh-high water to reach the shore. In the “Battle of Mactan,” forty-nine European musketeers and crossbowmen confronted three divisions of Mactan fighters, more than one thousand men, armed with arrows, bamboo spears tipped with iron, and fire-hardened stakes. Further inciting the islanders’ wrath, Magellan ordered the burning of nearby homes. The fighting lasted about an hour, culminating, as Pigafetta describes it, with Magellan’s death:

Which seeing (Magellan wounded in the arm), all those people threw themselves on him, and one of them with a large javelin… thrust it into his leg, whereby he fell face downward. On this all at once rushed upon him with lances of iron and of bamboo and with these javelins, so that they slew our mirror, our light, our comfort, and our true guide. (vol. 1, p. 88)

What year did Magellan’s crew sail around the world?

On Sept. 20, 1519, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, with five ships and a crew of 270 men, set sail from Sanlucar de Barrameda in southern Spain, on what would become the first circumnavigation of the world. Magellan himself died during the tumultuous three year voyage, with Spaniard Juan Sebastian Elcano completing the journey from the Phillipines back to Spain with a final crew of only 18 men. Despite Magellan’s tragic end, his legacy has become synonymous with exploration and geography—including the Strait in South America that still bears his name.

To reflect on the 500th anniversary of the Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation, Penn Today sat down with Antonio Feros, who specializes in the history of early modern Spain. Feros shares his insights on the state of the world in 1519, the political and economic factors that motivated this challenging journey, and what Magellan’s legacy looks like today.

What was Spain, and Europe as a whole, like in the year 1519?

How did Magellan prove that the Earth is round?

About 500 years ago, Ferdinand Magellan and his crew started from Spain on a long sea journey. They kept sailing in one direction. After nearly three years, they reached the same place from where they had started. This proved that the Earth is round .

Who actually sailed around the world first?

Juan Sebastián Elcano completed the first known circumnavigation of the globe in September 1522. The Basque navigator led the tattered remains of Magellan’s fleet back to Spain after the commander’s death in 1521. Juan Sebastián Elcano is shown in a 1791 engraving in Retratos de los españoles ilustres.

Mooring at the southern Spanish port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda on September 6, 1522, the Victoria’s hull was so rotten that it could only stay afloat by continually operating the pumps. Three years before, the ship had set out from port as part of a proud, five-ship flotilla under the command of captain-general Ferdinand Magellan. Since then, of the four other ships, three were lost and one had deserted. Of the 250 men that had formed the flotilla’s original crew, only 18 returned that September day.

The man who had captained these survivors on their long journey home, however, was not Magellan—killed in the Philippines more than a year before—but a Basque seaman named Juan Sebastián Elcano. By steering the frail Victoria across the Indian Ocean and around Africa’s Cape of Good Hope back to Spain, Elcano completed the first known circumnavigation of the world, a total journey of 45,000 miles marked by hunger, scurvy, murder, and mutiny.

J.S. Elcano and his ship Victoria are celebrated on this postage stamp issued by Spain in the late 1970s.

What happened to the five ships of Magellan?

Of these five ships, one was lost at sea (Santiago), one abandoned the expedition (San Antonio) in South America and returned to Spain, one was damaged and then burned by the crew (Concepcion) and lost at Cebu in the Phillipines on 21 December 1521 when Magellan was killed.

The two remaining ships were the Victoria, with Juan Sebastian Elcano as captain and the Trinidad, with Gómez de Espinosa as captain. They made their way to the Moloccus and then attempted to return to Spain by sailing west. However the Trinidad began taking on water and needed to be overhauled. The Victoria was not large enough to accommodate all the surviving crew. So the Victoria and some of the crew sailed west for Spain, arriving there 6 September 1522, almost three years after setting off to circumnavigate the globe.

The Trinidad, which had 205 tons of displacement and 23.46 meters (almost 77- feet) in length, docked in the Moluccas for just a little more than four months as she was being repaired. When the ship was ready, the crew attempted to cross the Pacific again. On 3 May 1522 they passed an island in Micronesia that they named San Antonio (Palau). Two months later on 11 July, they arrived at an island named Cyco (Asuncion which is the third most northerly island in the Marianas chain) in the Marianas archipelago and kidnapped a CHamoru man.

How much is Magellan’s treasure worth?

In some cases, the monetary value of the treasure is the driving point of the movie, so it needs to be explicitly stated. Uncharted’s Nathan Drake and Sully venture to find Ferdinand Magellan’s $5 billion treasure.

• The Templar Treasure the hunters find in National Treasure is estimated to be worth billions of dollars.
• Two of the hunters, Ben Gates and Riley Poole, split the 1% finder’s fee that the FBI offers.
• The large sum of money is spent unwisely after the events of the film, suggesting that the treasure’s value never meant anything.

Disney’s National Treasure is a national treasure in and of itself. It’s a film in which Nicolas Cage’s character, Benjamin “Ben” Gates, commits numerous crimes to steal American artifacts in ways not even Indiana Jones can pull off. With all the trouble Gates goes through to secure the hidden Templar Treasure of the first film, it makes one wonder how much it’s worth.

Like any other treasure-hunting movie, National Treasure’s heroes aren’t in it for the money. They’re in it for the thrill, historical breakthroughs, and in the case of the second movie, clearing their family name. The villains, on the other hand, have dollar signs in their eyes pointing them toward the treasure. With the help of his partner Riley Poole and archivist Dr. Abigail Chase, Ben uses a childhood story to find a secret treasure hidden in America by the Founding Fathers, Freemasons, and Knights Templar. By the end of National Treasure, Ben does take a finder’s fee for the treasure, dropping how much it’s worth in total.

Who was the 16 year old girl who sailed the world?

Jessica Watson. One of these young people is Jessica Watson. Jessica is an Australian sailor who gained international recognition in 2010. She became the youngest sailor to sail solo around the world at the age of 16. Her journey took her over 23,000 nautical miles and lasted for 210 days.

Born in Gold Coast, Australia in 1993, Jessica developed a love for sailing from a young age. She began sailing competitively at the age of eight and soon became one of the top sailors in her age group.

In 2009, Jessica announced her intention to sail solo around the world. Her plans were met with some skepticism and concern from the media and the sailing community. Against all advice, Jessica pursued her plans.

What did Magellan prove by sailing around the world?

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 Pacific Ocean and proved that ships could sail around the world on a western sea route.

Nao Victoria, the only ship in the fleet to complete the circumnavigation. Detail from a map by Abraham Ortelius, 1590.

• Trinidad
• San Antonio
• Concepción
• Victoria
• Santiago

• 18 returned with Elcano
• 12 were captured by the Portuguese in Cape Verde, 55 returned with the San Antonio in 1521, and 4 (or 5) from Trinidad returned after hard labor in the East Indies

Was Magellan’s gold ever found?

The “Uncharted” film largely draws from the fourth game of the video game series: “Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End.” (It borrows some scenes from other installments in the franchise though, like the cargo plane scene. That comes from the third game).

In reality, no, Ferdinand Magellan never went on a hunt for or found $5 billion worth of gold. He did, as the movie said, go on a journey to circumnavigate the globe. He wasn’t looking for treasure though; he simply wanted to establish trade routes.

“Uncharted” is also accurate in pointing out that Magellan never actually made it all the way around; he died on the journey. But that’s mostly where the accuracies stop. From there, everything gets a bit tangential.

In “Uncharted 4,” the Drakes and Sully are actually on the hunt for the treasure of Henry Avery, a pirate. And he was in fact a real guy.