Ferdinand+Magellan

[|www.studyworld.com/**ferdinand**_**magellan**]**: @** the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe and cross the Pacific Ocean

@ he was born in about 1480 in Sabrosa of a noble family

@In 1506 he went to the East Indies

@by 1510 he had been promoted to the rank of captain

@ In 1517 he offered his services to the king of Spain, Charles I

@On September 20,1519 Magellan started his great journey to the Moluccas from Sanlucar de Barrameda with five ships

@One ship was wrecked causing a mutiny

@Magellan sailed the passage to the Pacific Ocean named after him, the Strait of Magellan

@Magellan named "Pacific" because it was so calm

@ reached the Marianas, or Ladrone, Islands on March 6, 1521, and ten days later he discovered the Philippines

@agreed to help him attack the neighboring natives on the island of Mactan but died in the fighting

@two ships escaped and the other one was burned

@The last ship, Victoria, was commanded by del Cano through the Cape of Good Hope route to Seville on September 6,1522

@ the Strait of Magellan was too long and difficult to be a practical trade route from Europe@ he proved that the world is round and that it can be circumnavigated. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/m/magellan.shtml http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1519magellan.html http://222.newadvent.org/cathen/09526b.htm Watch out Christener Columbus, here comes Ferdinand Magellan the real first man to circumnavigate the world. Can you say tight! Ferdinand Magellan was born wealthy around 1480 in Sabrosa. At age 26 he went to the East Indies, and by the time he was 30 had worked his way up to the rank of captain. Seven years later Ferdinand Magellan offered to serve the king of    Spain  , Charles I. When Magellan went to the king he had an idea, a preexisting idea, but still a radical one. He was convinced that it was possible to make it all the way around the world: to circumnavigate it. Charles I thought that it would be a valuable tool to have a route around the world so he funded Magellan on a voyage with five ships. The ships were to sail around the world. On  September 20th 1519   Ferdinand Magellan sailed out of   Spain   and towards   Brazil. Once off the coast of  Brazil  , Magellan started his first goal. He searched for a way to sail through the new world along the coast of  South America. Magellan went into every water way that he came to in search of a way to the Pacific. Once at the latitude of 49°15,' he remained nearly five months in the harbor of San Julian. While searching for the passage, one of the ships wrecked and a mutiny began. Magellan crushed this uprising harshly. He went so far as to have the leader of the mutiny killed. As Magellan went further and further south along the coast he and his men came across a straight that cut off the last bit of the South American continent. The straight came to be known as the straits of Magellan, and it still says that on your globes today. On the way through the long and treacherous straight two more of Magellan’s ships were smashed against the rocks that lined the straight. Once on the other side of the straight Magellan thought that the ocean was very peaceful and calm so he named it the  Pacific Ocean. Again, it is still called that to this day. The two ships continued on through the ocean and at this point there was not much food left and the men on the boat had to resort to eating rats and even that soles of their shoes, which could be digested. The men wanted desperately to turn back, but Magellan forced them to keep going and his efforts paid off because on March 15th Magellan and his men reached the  Philippines. When Magellan arrived, he thought that it would be a good idea to stay a while and rest his men before they went through waters controlled by the Portuguese. He made friends with the chief of one of the islands and baptized him along with a few hundred of the native population. The chief wanted Magellan and his men to help fight another tribe nearby. On April 27th Magellan was hit by poison arrows in the skirmish and died. The two ships that were left managed to get away. On the rest of the way to  Spain   one more of the ships sunk leaving only one remaining ship. That ship, the  Victoria  , landed back at   Spain   on   September 8th 1522   with 18 crew members remaining. Even though Magellan himself never fully circumnavigated the world, it was his progressive thinking that lead to this stepping stone in man kind’s history.

Magellan's Voyage
By Antonio Pigafetta, Raleigh Ashlin Skelton http://books.google.com/books?id=RB4usvtAZrEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Ferdinand+Magellan&sig=ACfU3U0CpJ2w__Un-H-_0eXGfKO4JYzKtQ#PPP11,M1