Ferdinand Magellan Voyage

1519
August 10: Departure from Seville.

September 20: Departure from Sanlúcar de Barrameda.
September 26 - October 3: Stopping in the Canary Islands to take in provisions.
November 29: Fleet reaches the vicinity of Cape St. Augustine.
December 13: Entering the bay of Rio de Janeiro.
December 27: Departure from Rio de Janeiro.
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January 10: Entering the Río de la Plata.
February 27: Entering Bahia de los Patos.
March 31: Begin of the overwintering stay at Puerto San Julián.
April 1 and 2: Mutiny on Victoria, Concepcion and San Antonio; death of Louis de Mendoza. Later execution of de Quesada,
marooning of de Cartagena. Alvaro de Mesquita becomes captain of San Antonio, Duarte Barbosa of Victoria.
End of April: Santiago is sent on a mission to find the passage. The ship is caught in a storm and wrecked. Survivors return
to Puerto San Julián. Serrano (João Serrão) becomes captain of the Concepcion.
July: Encounters with the “Patagonian giants” (likely the Tehuelche people).
July 17: Santiago leaves Puerto San Julián to scout to the south.
August 5: The Santiago discovers the Río Santa Cruz and drops anchor there.
August 10: While trying to leave the estuary of the Río Santa Cruz, the Santiago is wrecked in a storm. All crew but one
survive. Some of the men head back to Puerto San Julián on foot.
August 23 or 24: Fleet departs Puerto San Julián for Río Santa Cruz.
October 18: Fleet leaves Santa Cruz.
October 21: Arriving at the Cape of the Eleven Thousand Virgins, entry to what would be known as Strait of Magellan.
End of October: San Antonio, charged to explore Magdalen Sound, fails to return to the fleet, instead sails back to Spain
under Estêvão Gomes who imprisoned captain de Mesquita. The ship arrives in Spain on May 21, 1521.
November 28: The fleet leaves the strait and enters the Pacific Ocean.
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January 24/25-28: Landfall on an uninhabited island, which Magellan names St Paul's (probably Puka-Puka). They stay for
a few days before continuing on.
March 6: Arrival at Guam and encounters with the Chamorro people.
March 16: Arrival of Magellan's expedition to one of the Philippine Islands. They headed to Suluan and dropped anchor for
a few hours of respite. Suluan is a small island in the province of Eastern Samar. They then next dropped anchor
at Homonhon, another small island in the province of Eastern Samar. They were detected by the boats of Rajah Kolambuwho
was visiting Mazaua, who later guided them to Cebu, on April 7.
March 31: First Mass in the Philippines, held in Mazaua which is not determined whether it was held in Mazaua, Southern
Leyte or Masao, Caraga, Mindanao or in Butuan, Agusan del Norte.
April 7: Arrival at the Rajahnate of Cebu.
April 27: Death of Magellan in the Battle of Mactan. Serrano and Barbosa are voted co-commanders.
May 1: At a local banquet Barbosa and 27 sailors (including Afonso de Góis, the new captain of Victoria after the election
of Barbosa and Serrão) are murdered and Serrao captured, later killed. The three remaining ships escape.
May 2: There are not enough men to handle three ships, thus the worm-infested Concepcion is burned down. Two ships
remain: Victoria and Trinidad. Gonzalo Gomez de Espinosa becomes captain of Victoria. Joao Lopez Carvalho is made as
the Captain General. The ships sail to Mindanao and Brunei.
September 21: Carvalho is replaced by Espinosa as Captain-General. Juan Sebastian Elcano becomes captain of Victoria.
November 8: Arriving at Tidore in the Moluccas.
December 21: Victoria under the command of Elcano leaves the Moluccas to return home, sailing west towards the Cape
of Good Hope. Trinidad remains at Tidore for repairs.
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January 25: Victoria reaches Timor and starts to cross the Indian Ocean.
April 6: Trinidad under the command of Espinosa leaves the Moluccas heading home sailing east. After five weeks,
Espinosa decides to return to the Moluccas where he and his ship are captured by a Portuguese fleet under Antonio de Brito.
However, the ship was wrecked during a storm.
May 22: Victoria passes the Cape of Good Hope and enters the Atlantic Ocean.
July 9: Victoria reaches Santiago, Cape Verde.
September 6: Victoria returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda under the command of Elcano, two weeks shy of three years after
setting sail.
September 8: Victoria arrives at Seville, technically completing the circumnavigation.
FERDINAND MAGELLAN EXPEDITION TO THE PHILIPPINES
Ferdinand Magellan renounced his allegiance to the Portuguese crown and became a Spanish subject because the
Portuguese king had not rewarded his services to the crown as officer and solider in the Portuguese possessions in India and
Malacca, persuaded Charles I of Spain that the Moluccas could be reached by sailing west and that an Atlantic passage to
the pacific could be found to achieve that goal. Accordingly, Magellan received a royal commission from the king to head
an expedition of five ships. On September 20, 1519, Magellan set you to sea from San Lucas, Spain with a fleet of 237 men.
Skirting the eastern coast of South America, he found and guided his ships though the the tortuous passage that now bears
his name, the Strait of Magellan. On November 20, 1520, after losing two ships and putting down tha mutiny of captains,
the fleet reached that Pacific Ocean. After four months of incredible hardship, the three ships crossed the Pacific Ocean.
Magellan's miscalculation of the great distance of the Pacific had brought him at the end of his journey a considerable
distance father north of the Moluccas. On March 17, 1521, the Spaniards sighted Samar, part of a group of islands, they
called the Archipelago of St. Lazarus. They weighted anchor in the islet of Homonhon, and the first meeting between
Filipinos and the Spaniards tool place when some natives from the nearby island of Suluan greeted them cordially, a gesture
indicative of the fact that the Filipinos were accustomed to seeing strangers coming to the Philippines.
The Spaniards then sailed to Limasawa, an islet south of Leyte, where they celebrated the first Catholic mass in the
Philippines on March 31, 1521, an Easter Sunday. Food and provisions, however, were scarce and upon learning of better
accommodations, in Cebu, Magellan sailed for the island, arriving there on April 1. He established cordial relations with its
chief, Humabon and forthwith converted about 800 natives, including Humabon, his wife and daughter. By converting them
to Christianity, Magellan had in fact reduced Humabon and his people to vassalage and placed the Cebuanos under the aegis
of Spanish crown.
Magellan, however, embroiled himself in the rivalries so characteristic of Filipino tribal relations at the time. Lapu-
Lapu, chief of Mactan and enemy of Humabon, was hostile to the Spaniards. Magellan went to Mactan to force Lapu-Lapu
to recongnize Spanish sovereignty and pay tribute. The chieftain refused and in the ensuing skirmish on April 27, Magellan
was fatally wounded with a poisoned arrow. His men, demoralized, retreated. Since then, Lapu-Lapu has been considered
the first Filipino to save successfully repelled Spanish aggression.
Significance of Magellan Expedition

Magellan had proved that the East could be reached by sailing westward from Europe. His "discovery" of the
Philippines brought the archipelago into the awareness of Europe. On September 6, 1522, the ship Victoria, under the
command of Sebastian del Cano, reached the Port of Seville. One ship and eighteen men were all that remained of the
Magellan expedition, yet they were responsible for completing the first circumnavigation of the world.

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August 10: Departure from Seville.

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