2024年12月21日 · Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese navigator and explorer. From Spain he sailed around South America, discovering the Strait of Magellan, and across the Pacific. Though he was killed in the Philippines, one of his ships continued westward to Spain, accomplishing the first circumnavigation of Earth.

The first documented European contact with the Philippines was made in 1521 by Ferdinand Magellan in his circumnavigation expedition, [1] during which he was killed in the Battle of Mactan.

2024年6月2日 · On March 17, 1521, the renowned Magellan expedition set foot in the Philippines, marking a significant milestone in the history of both the archipelago and global exploration. Led by the intrepid Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan , this historic voyage would pave the way for Spanish domination in the region and shape the course of ...

2010年7月21日 · After traveling three-quarters of the way around the globe, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan is killed during a tribal skirmish on Mactan Island in the Philippines.

Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese in the service of the Spanish crown, was looking for a westward route to the to the Spice Islands of Indonesia. On March 16, 1521, Magellan's expedition landed on Homonhon island in the Philippines. He …

Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who was determined to reach India and the East Indies by a new route - under the southern end of America. His journey to the Philippines is believed to have been the first documented European expedition to the archipelago.

2021年3月31日 · The story of Ferdinand Magellan’s “discovery” of the Philippines while in search of another route to nearby Moluccas and his subsequent death at the hands of Lapu-Lapu is treated as a landmark event of Philippine history: the true “beginning” of our Filipino consciousness, so to speak.

2021年6月16日 · Ferdinand Magellan is most famous for leading the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe in 1519-22 (even if he himself died in the Philippines mid-way). His route around the tip of South America was named after him, the Magellan Straits.

2021年10月1日 · This year marks the 500th anniversary of the arrival of the Magellan expedition (1519-1522) — famed for being the first to circumnavigate the globe — in the Philippines in 1521. It also marks the 450th anniversary of the founding of Manila, on the island of Luzon, as a Spanish city in 1571.

commentators clearly thought Magellan was familiar with the Philippine region. Charles Parr (1953) theorised that Magellan "probably coasted about the Philippine Archipelago" during his time in Malacca.3 According to Gines de Mafra, a sailor with …