MAG
ELLA
N’S
EXPI
DITI
ON
FERDINAND MAGELLAN
Magellan-Elcano Circumnavigation
PREPARATION: THE FLEET
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SANTIAGO
SAN ANTONIO
CONCEPCION
TRINIDAD
VICTORIA
PREPARATION: THE CREW
237 men:
Portuguese, Spanish, Italians,
Germans, Flemish, Greeks, English,
French
ARRIVAL IN
THE
PHILIPPINES
TIMELINE
1520
Aug. 10 - Dptr. Seville
Sept. 20 – Dptr. Sanclucar de
Barrameda
Dec. 13 – Entr. Bay of Rio de Jainero
Dec. 27 – Dptr. Bay of Rio de Jainero
1520
Jan. 10 - Entr. Rio de la Plata
Feb. 27 - Entr. Bahia de los Patos
Mar. 31 – Stay at Puerto San Julian
Apr. 1&2 – Mutiny on Victoria,
Concepcion, & San Antonio
End of Apr. – Wreckage of Santiago
July – Encounters with “Patagonian
Giants” (Tehuelche)
Aug. 24 – Dptr. Puerto San Julian
Oct. 11 – Arriving at Cape of Eleven
Thousand
Virgins
(Strait
of
Magellan)
End of Oct. – Sail of San Antonio
back to Spain
Nov. 28 – Enters the Pacific Ocean
1521
Mar. 6 – Guam
Mar. 17 –Arrival: Suluan
Apr. 7 - Cebu
Apr. 27 – Death of Magellan
May 1 – Barbosa: Murdered and
Serrano: Captured & Killed
May 2 – Concepcion is Burned Down
Gonzalo Gomez de Espinosa- Capt.
of Victoria
Joao Lopez Carvalho- Capt. Gen of
Victoria
Sept. 21- Carvalho is replaced by
Martin Mendez and Espinosa
became the Capt. of Trinidad and
Juan Sebastian Elcano became the
Capt. of Victoria
Nov. 8 – Arriving at Tidore in the
Moluccas
Dec. 21 – Victoria depart while
Trinidad remains at Tidore for repair
1522
Jan. 25 – Victoria reaches Timor and
starts to cross the Indian Ocean
Apr. 6 – Trinidad leaves Moluccas,
after 5 weeks it was captured by
Portuguese Fleet under Antionio de
Brito
May 22 – Victoria Passes the Cape of
Good Hope and Enters the Atlantic
Ocean
Jul. 9 – Reaching Santiago, Cape
Verde
Sept. 6 - Victoria returns to Sanlucar
Completing the circumnavigation
Sept. 8 – Victoria arrives at Seville
RETURN
AND
LEGACY
SIGNIFICANCE
OF MAGELLAN
EXIPIDITON