Who Really Was First to Travel Around the World?

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There’s no doubt that Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães) intended to have a successful journey when his expedition set off from Spain on September 20, 1519. He had planned for the departure meticulously, hoping to prove that people could sail all the way around the world, and to be the first to do it. His ambition was spurred on by the adventures of previous explorers, such as Christopher Columbus and Vasco Nunez de Balboa, the man who marched across the Panamanian isthmus to the Pacific Ocean. There was little doubt in Magellan’s mind that it could be done.

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[fyeahitsrul]

Panglima Awang Hitam aka Enrique of Malacca.

[mukhtarsyajaratun]

Enrique real name is Panglima Awang Hitam, hes the Malaccan Panglima(general) but after Malacca empire has fallen Magellan captured him to be his sailors, if u wanna know Malacca was the wealthiest kingdom and has the busiest port in the world on that time, the kingdom also has advanced technology of weapons and also good on academic Malacca also trade with many kingdom on that time such as China(the best ally), the Ottomans(who teach the Malacca about canons and rifles), the Ryuku, the Gujerat and many other kingdoms on that time, Malacca army was more stonger and has lots of firepower and they cannons has a good quality than the portugese thats why the portugese really want to invade it, but it destroyed bcause of a betrayal in Malacca kingdom so the portugese take the opputurnity when the betrayer(was waiting on the gate) help the portugese to breaks the gate at the harbour...

[willenciowesley]

Enrique's real name is Panglima Awang Hitam

[padel]

panglima awang hitam as a hendry the black from melaka with him around the world

[shiabdal]

Malay called their homeland tanah air, air =water = laut=sea, they are sea people and sea gypsy who called the sea as homeland

[TheAsianer]

Im proud to be part of Malay... Hope we will success again for future of our race and religion...

[puma]

Magellan searched and found the West-passage. It was Elcano who decided to go back around Africa, and therefore took the decision to circumnavigate. Magellan had nothing to do with a circumnavigation. Also circumnavigation is usually thought of as a voyage on a specific ship, so the sailors of the Victoria were truly the first "circumnavigators", whoever crossed all longitudes before in some other way. (Travalling from America to Asia by plane by East, then some time later by West doesn't make you a circumnavigator....).

[briannaysiamodonnell]

After the death of Magellan, Juan Sebastián Elcano took command of the first crew to go around the world..The difficult mission departed from Seville (August 10-1519) and ended almost three years later in the Cadiz port of Sanlucar de Barrameda (September6, 1522)..Less than twenty men managed to finish it..

[MrASutton]

Hello... why dont they make a movie of this???? 18 out of 200 came back to Spain.... omg... back stabbings, plot twists and turns and even an unexpected and quite interesting ending for both Enrique and his surviving comrades.
COME ON PEOPLE

[fithri]

Panglima Awang Hitam or Enrique de Malacca, the first known human to circumnavigate the globe was a Malay.

[jwb]

While it's popular to say that Magellan set out from Spain, he had in fact arrived there only after visiting the far East, and using the latter as his starting point for his trip around the world, he did in fact circumnavigate the globe completely from a longitude standpoint. But the question is still valid.

[shineshine]

Me as Malaysia i'm so happy about this..

[allthingschannel]

now you know how amazing malays people

[sehastasejengkal]

Panglima hitam from malaysia ...baptised by magellen to save his life in portugal ...he was named Enrique.

[javierslytherin]

Proud to be Spanish 🇪🇸 Elcano the first human to circunnavigate the Earth in Victoria ✌️

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Enrique from the island of Maluku in Indonesia the island of Maluku is a producer of spices that Europeans are looking for because at that time spices were worth gold in the past, that's why ferdinand magellanes included everyone on Enrique's voyage. because Enrique knows that the island that produces the spices that Europeans are looking for is on the island of MALUKU, Indonesia. And why is Enrique famous for his black skin, because Enrique comes from the MELANESIA race, which is identical to the people who live on the island of MALUKU. And if anyone asks why Enrique can speak Malay, it's because Enrique once stopped and lived for quite a long time on the southern island of Sumatra and there was a Malay kingdom called Sriwijaya and the Sriwijaya kingdom controlled the Malacca Straits trade. And the power of the Sriwijaya kingdom included BELITUNG (Indonesia), TAMASEK (Singapore), MALAKA (Malaysia). If someone thinks that Enrique is a Malay, that's a HOAX. Malays don't have black skin from birth. If you don't believe me, just find out on Google or other social media. What is MALUKU Island? what is the producer on the island of MALUKU? And the Melanesian Race. sorry if anyone is offended, I'm just giving information as clearly as clearly as to who Enrique is from MALUKU in Indonesia, really, thank you.





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[fairuz]

Its Panglima Awang Hitam was the first person travel around the globe..

Your way to say Magalhães is so funny :D loved the video

[UFO]

Regarding Bonus Fact 2: Magellan himself was one of those who had been to the Philippines before his well-known around-the-world expedition.