Ferdinand Magellan: Exploration, Route and Discovery

Portuguese turned Spanish explorer, Ferdinand Magellan set sail with funding from the King of Spain to find a quick and lucrative route to the Spice Islands. After traversing the Atlantic Ocean and discovering the Pacific Ocean, Magellan died suddenly, leaving his crew to finish the circumnavigation.

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Today's Daily Dose short history film covers the voyage of Ferdinand Magellan, who was the first European to circumnavigate the world. The filmmaker has included the original voice over script to further assist your understanding:

Today on The Daily Dose, The Voyage of Ferdinand Magellan.

Intrigued by maritime discovery from an early age, Portuguese explorer, Ferdinand Magellan, honed his seamanship skills on expeditions to India and Africa, all the while day dreaming about a quick and lucrative sea route to the Spice Islands, during a time when European demand for spices held top rank in the world economy. In 1517, when Magellan approached King Manuel of Portugal seeking financial support for a voyage to the Spice Islands, after the king refused his repeated petitions, Magellan renounced his Portuguese citizenship and relocated to Seville Spain, where his petitions to King Charles the First at last funded the explorer on his daring voyage of discovery.

On August 10th, 1519, Magellan said goodbye to his wife and young son, never to see either loved one again, setting sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda in his five-ship Armada De Moluccas, including his flagship Trinidad, San Antonio, Conception, Victoria and Santiago. After a one-month sail across the Atlantic Ocean, then known simply as the Ocean Sea, the fleet coasted South America in search of a fabled shortcut through the continent. The crew mutinied on Easter Day, 1520 at Port San Julian, which was quickly put down by Magellan after the Santiago was shipwrecked on an advance expedition ahead of the fleet.

When the fleet set sail following a five-month delay due to fierce seasonal storms, the four remaining ships at last discovered the elusive strait that would later bear Magellan’s name.
Magellan would lose the San Antonio when the crew began to grumble over the dangers that lay ahead, forcing her captain to flee across the Atlantic for an early return to Spain. The three remaining ships traversed the Magellan Straits for another month, until they sailed into a new ocean, which Magellan named Mar Pacifico or the Pacific Ocean. Three months later, the fleet landed in Guam in March of 1521, then onward to the Philippine island of Cebu. Unwisely involving himself in a skirmish between warring islanders, Magellan was fatally wounded by a poison arrow, passing away on April 27th, 1521, and while Magellan failed to find the Spice Islands, his surviving crew would be the first Europeans to circumnavigate the world. After the loss of another of his ships, the two remaining vessels returned to Seville with a heavy cargo of spices, manned by a crew of just 18 of the 270 men who had originally set sail from Spain. Ultimately, Magellan’s voyage proved that the earth was much larger than previously thought, while his circumnavigation of the globe at last discredited the medieval theory that the world was flat, making Magellan’s voyage a wildly important leap forward in the Age of Exploration.

[masman]

The first world explorers were Ambonese or Moluccans who were experts in navigation and could speak Portuguese, Spanish, English and Malay, Maluku part of Indonesia, when Enrique sailed from Maluku to Demak Java, Palembang Sumatra, Malacca then met Ferdinand Magellan Sailor from Portugal in Philippines in 1509, Enrique NOT a SLAVE but working together with magellan, and then they submitted a proposal to the King of Spain First Carlos, to look for spice islands, namely the Maluku Islands which became the territory of several small Islamic kingdoms (Tidore, Ternate, Jailolo and Bacan) where Enrique came from and was the center of the world's spice trade, although in the interior of Java is also full of spices but because it is not easy to reach by merchant ships, which were under the rule of the Islamic Mataram Kingdom as the successor to the Demak Kingdom. Then after sailing for so long they sailed to the South Philippines, where there was a war with a small kingdom in the South Philippines and caused Magellan to be killed, who was then buried in the Philippines. After everything calmed down, Enrique continued the expedition and sailed according to the proposal submitted to King Carlos, and up to the Moluccas to return to Spain. In many writings by Europeans who say that the first Man was Magellan, even though he had died in the Philippines before the expedition was completed, and Enrique who completed it. Even Professor Biographers from the Philippines himself also claimed that Enrique was a Filipino, with the nickname Henry del Negro. Malaysia also claims to be a Malaysian with the name Panglima Awang, even though it actually looks odd, how can Ambonese with distinctive black skin be recognized as Malaysian or Filipino??? This is a correction so that history is not distorted for the sake of a nation's popularity, but contains lies, or falsity. History must tell the facts of the truth of past events. Isn't it ???

[jamesbarton]

The world was fully aware that the world was not flat and there was a very good idea of the distance to the Indies.

[JavierBrent]

Im a commercial pilot instructor. Any pilot, sailor or traveler on cars too knows all vehicles need to have the maps or charts of the route to follow not only one and the others "follow me". What about if the ship or vehicle in front loose the others in a storm or simply at night? The others, with no maps or idea where they were going will get lost. Magellan. It is one of the rules of fleet or multi vehicle navigation. Magellan didnt give any maps of the route to the others ships, only the portughese crew one in which he was too. That is a huge violation of navigation rules. Im a pilot instructor. He lied to the others about giving them the maps after a while, but didnt. Huge Magellan Devilish Plan to make the others get lost and he and the Italians and portugeese navigate only and put down Spain sailors. He wanted the Spain crews to get lost, of course. That is why the others mutiny againts him. The liar also become a murderer. Good his arrogance made him try to defeat about 1, 000 islanders with only about 50. Arrogant got killed and Delcano decided to circumnavigate instead of backtrack which was the initial plan.