Facts about Ferdinand Magellan |
Ferdinand Magellan Fact 13 | He convinced King Charles I of Spain to support a voyage to the Spice Islands and was promised one-fifth of the profits | |
Ferdinand Magellan Fact 14 | The King provided a small fleet of five ships - the Trinidad, the San Antonio, the Conception, the Victoria and the Santiago. | |
Ferdinand Magellan Fact 15 | March 22, 1519: He convinced King Charles I of Spain to support his voyage to the Spice Islands. King Charles promised Magellan one-fifth of the profits from the voyage to the Spice Islands | | |
Ferdinand Magellan Fact 16 | 20 September, 1519: The fleet under Ferdinand Magellan sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to South America and Rio de Janeiro. Magellan then started to search for a passage to the Pacific Ocean | |
Ferdinand Magellan Fact 17 | Ferdinand Magellan commanded the Trinidad | |
Ferdinand Magellan Fact 18 | Ferdinand Magellan led the 5 ships and 251 men in what was to become the first voyage around the World | |
Ferdinand Magellan Fact 19 | The fleet anchored for the winter at Puerto San Julian in Southern Argentina, They leave in September but a storm destroys the Santiago and a mutiny breaks out but is soon quashed | |
Ferdinand Magellan Fact 20 | 13 February 13, 1521: Magellan reaches the Equator | |
Ferdinand Magellan Fact 21 | March 1521: They discover the the Pacific island of Guam and the Philippines by which time only 110 of the original 251 crew members are left alive | |
Ferdinand Magellan Fact 22 | April 27, 1521: Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives on the island of Mactan in the Philippines. So few of the crew remain that they abandon the Conception | |
Ferdinand Magellan Fact 23 | The Trinidad is captured by the Portuguese, leaving the Victoria as the last remaining ship | |
Ferdinand Magellan Fact 24 | 1522, September 6, 1522: The Victoria reached Sanlucar de Barrameda in Spain with only 18 survivors. | |
Ferdinand Magellan Fact 25 | The historic voyage of this great explorer had taken nearly three years and had cost 233 lives. | |
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