Magellan Expedition Circumnavigates the Globe
At a glance:
- Series: Chronology of European History
- Categories: Science, Discovery, Exploration, Geography
- Subcategories: Ships, Naval History, Explorers
- Curriculum: Renaissance History, Latin American History, American Pre-Colonial History (to 1606), African History, Asian History, Spanish/Portuguese History
- Geographical Location: Spain, South Africa, Brazil, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Portugal, Argentina, Philippines
- Date: 1519-1522
Article abstract: The Magellan expedition circumnavigates the globe, opening the westward way to the Spice Islands, exploring and naming the Pacific Ocean, demonstrating the roundness of the earth, and proving the existence of the New World as separated from Asia.
Summary of Event
Magellan was born of an aristocratic family in north Portugal about 1480, and was reared as a page in the royal household where he learned navigation, astronomy, algebra, and geometry. At age fifteen he enlisted as a volunteer to sail to India, where he served with distinction...
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