In the early days of the navigation of the strait, the crew of the San Antonio forced its captain to desert, and the ship turned and fled across the Atlantic Ocean back to Spain. The voyage through the Strait of Magellan was treacherous and cold, and many sailors continued to mistrust their leader and grumble about the dangers of the journey ahead. On OctoMagellan finally entered the strait that he had been seeking and that came to bear his name. With those disastrous events behind them, the fleet left Port San Julian five months later when fierce seasonal storms abated. The ship’s crew members were rescued and assigned out among the remaining ships. Meanwhile Magellan had sent the Santiago to explore the route ahead, where it was shipwrecked during a terrible storm. Magellan quickly quelled the uprising, executing one of the captains and leaving another mutinous captain behind. The fleet stopped at Port San Julian where the crew mutinied on Easter Day in 1520.
There the ships sailed southward, hugging the coast in search of the fabled strait that would allow passage through South America. The fleet reached South America a little more than one month later. In September 1519 Magellan’s fleet sailed from Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain, and crossed the Atlantic Ocean, which was then known simply as the Ocean Sea. Just 18 years old at the time, King Charles I granted his support to Magellan, who in turn promised the young king that his westward sea voyage would bring immeasurable riches to Spain. The grandson of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, who had funded Christopher Columbus’s expedition to the New World in 1492, received Magellan’s petition with the same favor shown by his grandparents. The well-connected Barbosa family introduced Magellan to officers responsible for Spain’s maritime exploration, and soon Magellan secured an appointment to meet the king of Spain. He soon met another transplanted Portuguese named Diogo Barbosa, and within a year he had married Barbosa’s daughter Beatriz, who gave birth to their son Rodrigo a year later. When Magellan arrived in Seville in October 1517, he had no connections and spoke little Spanish. In 1517, a frustrated Magellan renounced his Portuguese nationality and relocated to Spain to seek royal support for his venture. The king refused his petition repeatedly. Intrigued by the promise of fame and riches, Magellan developed an interest in maritime discovery in those early years.īy now an experienced seaman, Magellan approached King Manuel of Portugal to seek his support for a westward voyage to the Spice Islands. While at the court Magellan was exposed to stories of the great Portuguese and Spanish rivalry for sea exploration and dominance over the spice trade in the East Indies, especially the Spice Islands, or Moluccas, in modern Indonesia. At age 12 Ferdinand Magellan ( Fernão de Magalhães in Portuguese and Fernando de Magallanes in Spanish) and his brother Diogo traveled to Lisbon to serve as pages at Queen Leonora’s court. 1480–1521) was born in Sabrosa, Portugal, to a family of minor Portuguese nobility.
Ferdinand Magellan’s Early Yearsįerdinand Magellan (c. Magellan himself was killed in battle on the voyage, but his ambitious expedition proved that the globe could be circled by sea and that the world was much larger than had previously been imagined. Although it was laden with valuable spices from the East, only 18 of the fleet’s original crew of 270 returned with the ship. The voyage was long and dangerous, and only one ship returned home three years later. En route he discovered what is now known as the Strait of Magellan and became the first European to cross the Pacific Ocean. 1480-1521) set out from Spain in 1519 with a fleet of five ships to discover a western sea route to the Spice Islands. In search of fame and fortune, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (c.
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