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PHILIPPINE HISTORY
Prepared by:
 1. Abarintos, Edrian
 2. Bolongaita, Jun Keneth
 3. Sintones, Aries
 4. Carpio, Catherine
 5. Rublico, Junnica Tomas
 6. Magan, Alexa Faith
 7. Reyes, Dalia D.

Submitted to:
Mr. Edison Ansay
 A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE
FIRST VOYAGE AROUND THE
WORLD BY MAGELLAN BY
ANTONIO PIGAFETTA
 A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE FIRST VOYAGE
AROUND THE WORLD BY MAGELLAN BY
ANTONIO PIGAFETTA

 This book was taken from the chronicles

of contemporary voyagers and navigators
of the 16th century.
ANTONIO PIGAFETTA
• Famous Italian traveller born in
Vicenza around 1490 and died in
the same city in 1534, who is also
known by the name of Antonio
Lombardo or Francisco Antonio
Pigafetta.

•An Italian nobleman who

accompanied Ferdinand Magellan
in his fateful circumnavigation of
the world.
 FERDINAND MAGELLAN

• Portuguese explorer who

organised the Spanish expedition
to the East Indies from 1519 to
1522, resulting in the first
circumnavigation of the Earth.
PROMINENT LITERARY MEN IN THE WEST
WHOM REFERRED TO THE BOOK IN THEIR
INTERPRETATION OF THE NEW WORLD:

WILLIAM GIAMBATTISTA VICO

SHAKESPEARE

MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
PIGAFETTAS’S
TRAVELOGUE
• One of the most important primary sources
in the study of the precolonial Philippines.
THE FIRST VOYAGE
AROUND THE WORLD BY
MAGELLAN

• Published after Pigafetta returned to Italy.

• In Pigafetta’s account, their fleet
reached what he called the
Ladrones Island.
LADRONES ISLAND
• or the “Islands of the Thieves”
• presently known as the Marianas
Islands
• located south-southeast of Japan, west-
southwest of Hawaii, north of New Guinea
and east of Philippines.
•Pigafetta recounted that: “These people
have no arms, but use sticks, which have a
fishbone at the end. They are poor, but
ingenious, and great thieves, and for the
sake of what we called these three islands
of the Ladrones Islands”.
ISLE OF ZAMAL
 now Samar
 they reached this island after ten days but
Magellan decided to land in another
uninhabited island for greater security
where they could rest for a few days.
 MARCH 18
 nine men came to them and showed joy and
eagerness in seeing them
 Magellan welcomed them with food, drinks, and
gifts
 In turn, natives gave them rice(umai), cocos and
other food supplies.
 Pigafetta detailed in amazement and fascination the
palm tree which bore fruits called cocho, and wine.
HUMUNU ISLAND
(Homonhon)
 There they found what Pigafetta reffered to as the
“Watering Place of Good Signs”.
 It in this place where Pigafetta wrote that they
found the first signs of gold in the island.
 They named the island with the nearby islands as
the archipelago of St. Lazarus
 MARCH 25
 Pigafetta recounted that they saw two ballanghai
(balangay), a long boat full of people in Mazzava/Mazaua
 The leader/king sent his men to the ship of Magellan
 The Europeans entertained them and gave them gifts
 The king offered to give Magellan a bar of gold and a
chest of ginger but Magellan declined.
 MARCH 25
 Magellan asked for money for the needs of his ships and expressed that
he came into the islands as a friend and not as an enemy.
 The king responded by giving Magellan the needed provisions of food in
chinaware.
 Magellan exchanged gifts of robes in Turkish fashion, red cap, and gave
the people knives and mirrors.
 The two then expressed their desire to become brothers.
 Magellan also boasted of his men in armor who could not be struck with
swords and daggers.
 Magellan further showed the king his other weapons, helmets, and
artilleries.
 Magellan also shared with the king his charts and maps and shared how
they found the islands.
After few days,

 Magellan was introduced to the king’s

brother who was also a king of another
island.
 They went to this island and Pigafetta
reported that they saw mines of gold.
RAIA CALAMBU
 King of Zuluan and Calagan (Butuan and
Caragua)
 Descibed by Pigafetta as the most handsome of all
men that he saw in this place
 Adorned with silk and gold accessories like a
golden dagger, which he carried with him in a
wooden polished sheath.
RAIA SIAGU
 The first king
MARCH 31

 Easter Sunday
 Magellan ordered the chaplain to preside a
Mass by the shore.
 Both kings attended
 The first Mass in the Philippines
 CROSS
 After the mass, Magellan ordered the cross be brought with nails and
crown in place.
 He explained that the cross were the signs of his emperor and that he
was ordered to plant it in the places he would reach.
 Would be beneficial for their people because once other Spaniards
saw this cross, they would know that they had been in this land and
would not cause them troubles.
 Any person who might be held captivates by them would be released.
 King concurred and allowed cross to be planted.
 The famed Magellan’s Cross still preserved at present day
 MAGELLAN’S CROSS

Magellan’s Cross is a Christian

Cross which is housed in an
octagonal kiosk in Cebu City on
Magallanes Street in front of Cebu
City Hall, near to Basilica Minore
del Santo Niño.
MAGELLAN’S CROSS

A sign below the foot of the

cross can be seen describing
that the original cross is
encased inside another cross
made of Tindalo Wood. The
wooden case is placed to
protect the original cross
from people who chipped
away parts of the cross and
take them as souvenirs, as
it was believed to possess 
miraculous power.
APRIL 07
 Magellan and his men decided to move and look
for islands where they could acquire more supplies
and provisions
 They learned of the islands of Ceylon (Leyte),
Bohol, and Zzubu (Cebu) and intended to go
there.
 Raia Calumbu offered to pilot them in going to
Cebu, the largest and richest of the islands.
 The king demanded that they pay tribute as it was a
customary but Magellan refused.
APRIL 08

 Magellan’s men and the king of Cebu, together

with other principal men of Cebu met in an open
space.

 King offered a bit of his blood and demanded that

Magellan do the same.
 APRIL 09
 Magellan spoke before the people of Cebu about peace
and God.
 Magellan asked the people who would succeed the king
after his reign.
 Magellan preached about their faith further and people
were reportedly convinced.
 Pigafetta wrote that their men were overjoyed seeing that
people wished to become Christians through their free
will and not because they were forced or intimated.
APRIL 14

 The people gathered with the king and other

principal men of the islands.
 The king of Cebu was baptized as a Christian.
 The king named as Don Charles (Carlos)
 The prince as Don Fernand (Fernando)
 King of Mazzava as Jehan
 Moor gave the name of Christopher
 To the others each a name of his fancy.
APRIL 21

 Pigafetta counted that all of the island’s inhabitant

were already baptized.
 He admitted that they burned a village down for
obeying neither the king nor Magellan.
INFANT JESUS

 Made by Pigafetta himself.

 Magellan gave it to the queen when one
day she attended the Mass.
 King of Cebu swore that he would always
be faithful to Magellan.
MAGELLAN
 Reiterated that all of the newly baptized Christians
need to burn their idols but native gave excuses telling
Magellan that they needed the idols to heal a sick man
who was a relative to the king.
 He insisted that they should instead put their faith in
Jesus Christ.
 They went to the sick man and baptized him. After the
baptismal, Pigafetta recorded that the man was able to
speak again. He called this a miracle.
 APRIL 26

 Zula, a principal man from the island of Matan

(Mactan) went to se Magellan and asked for a boat
full of men so that he would be able to fight the
chief named Silapulapu (Lapulapu).

 Magellan offered three boats instead and expressed

his desire to go to Mactan himself to fight the said
chief.
SILAPULAPU
(LAPULAPU)

 According to Zula, refused to obey the king and

was also preventing him form doing so.
APRIL 27
 Magellan’s forces arrived in Mactan
 They numbered 49 in total and the islanders of Mactan were
estimated to number 1,500.
 The battle began.
 Magellan died in the battle.
 Natives aimed for his legs because the bodies were protected with
armors
 Magellan was pierced with a poisoned arrow in his right leg.
 Magellan was specifically targeted because the natives knew that he
was the captain general.
ANTONIO PIGAFETTA
 He also said that the king of Cebu who was baptized could
have sent help but Magellan instructed him not to join the
battle and stay in the balangay.
 The king offered the people of Mactan gifts of any value
and amount in exchange of Magellan’s body.
 DUARTE BARBOSA

•Elected as the new

captain.

•He was Ferdinand

Magellan’s brother in
law.
ANTONIO PIGAFETTA
 He also told how Magellan’s slave and interpreter
named Henry betrayed them.

 He alleged that the slave told the king that if

followed the slave’s advice, then the king could
acquire the ships and the goods of Magellan’s
fleet.
 The king invited these men to a gathering where he said
he would present the jewels that he would send for the
King of Spain.
 Pigafetta was not able to join the twenty-four men who
attended because he was nursing his battle wounds.
 It was only a short time when they heard cries and
lamentations.
 The natives had slain all of the men except the interpreter
and Juan Serrano who was already wounded.
 ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION
•The voyage was successfully terminated by the
Basque navigator Juan Sebastián del Cano.
•After Magellan’s death in the Philippines in April
Juan Sebastián del Cano. 1521, a series of men took command of the
expedition, but none of them stayed in charge for
longer than a few months. As one of the few
remaining men, Cano took charge of one of the two
surviving ships, the Victoria, later that year. He
safely brought the expedition home to Spain in
September 1522, despite scurvy, starvation, and
harassment by the Portuguese. Only 18 Europeans
had survived the voyage, which constituted the first
journey around the globe.
THAT’S THE END.

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