who is Ferdinand Magellan
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Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer
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Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan.jpg
Ferdinand Magellan, in a 16/17th century anonymous portrait
Born
4 February 1480
Kingdom of Portugal
Died
27 April 1521 (aged 41)
Chiefdom
Nationality
Portuguese (renounced in 1517)[1][2]
Known for
The first circumnavigation of the Earth
Signature
Magellan Signature.svg
Born 4 February 1480 into a family of minor Portuguese nobility, Magellan became a skilled sailor and naval officer and was in service of the Portuguese crown in Asia. After King Manuel I of Portugal refused to support his plan to reach India by a new route, by sailing around the southern end of the South American continent, he was eventually selected by King Charles I of Spain to search for a westward route to the Maluku Islands (the "Spice Islands"). Commanding a fleet of five vessels, he headed south through the Atlantic Ocean to Patagonia. Despite a series of storms and mutinies, they made it through the Strait of Magellan into a body of water he named the "peaceful sea" (the modern Pacific Ocean).[5] The expedition reached the Philippine islands, where Magellan was killed during the Battle of . The expedition later reached the Spice Islands in 1521 and one of the surviving ships eventually returned home via the Indian Ocean, completing the first circuit of the globe.
Magellan had already reached the Malay Archipelago in Southeast Asia on previous voyages traveling east (from 1505 to 1511–1512). By visiting this area again but now travelling west, Magellan achieved a nearly complete personal circumnavigation of the globe for the first time in history.