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 The Magellan Expedition
In 1498, Vas co da Gama arrived at Calicut, India
In 1509, Albuquerque acquired Goa, on the western coast of
India
In 1511, Albuquerque captured Malacca from the Malays.
In 1519, Spain launched an expedition of their own to the East.
That year, Ferdinand Magellan left the port of San Lucar de
Barrameda on a voyage of discovery.
The Treaty of Tordesillas gave Spain the right to venture into
the unexplored regions of the South Sea
 The Magellan Expedition
The story of the Magellan expedition is told in two important
source documents:
1. Pigafetta's account: "Primo viaggio intorno al globo
terracqueo"
2. A letter written by Maximilianus Transylvanus: “De Moluccis
Insulis"
Pigafetta's account was written by an eyewitness of the events
related therein.
Transylvanus wrote his story on the basis of the testimonies
gathered by him from Sebastian del Cano and from the other
survivors of the expedition.
 Departure from Spain
Monday, August X, 1800 (St. Lawrence day) numbers of men,
about 237 men supplying the fleet, made ready to leave the
harbor of Siviglia.

The men stayed for days to provide the things the fleet
needed. And while doing so, the men went to mass everyday in
the village Nostra Doña Barrameda (Our Lady of Barrameda)
San Lucar.

Left San Lucar on Tuesday, September 26th. Went to the

Southwest course (Island of the Great Canaria “Teneriphe”) to
get flesh, water, and woods.
 Muting at San Julian
Stayed at Port (San to Julianno) for 5 months and many things
happened…

In the ships there are overseers being quartered of the fleets.

The member; Johan Cartegama, the Treasurer; Alouise de
Mendosa, the Accountants; Anthonio Cocha & Gaspar de
Cazada.

Days after, Gaspar de Cazada was banished with a priest. The

Captain general did not wish him to be killed (because the
Emperor Don Carlo already appointed him as Captain).
 At the strait of Magellan
October 21st, going 52 degrees same pole, the men found a
strait and found out there was a Feast of the 11,000 virgins
(Capo de le Undici Vergine).

The men find the strait the safest or every part of the legua.
There are already water, wood, sardines, sweet herbs in it.
They stayed there for 4 days.

The men believed if this is not the most beautiful strait in the
world, then they don't know what it is other than this…
 The Voyage Across the Pacific
On November 28, 1520, a crew of Spanish explorers sailed
through the Pacific Sea for three months and twenty days
without fresh food, consuming biscuit powder, worm-like
biscuits, putrid water, and ox hides.
They lost 19 men, twenty-five or thirty fell sick due to tooth
swelling and illness.
The crew sailed through an open stretch of the Pacific Sea,
sailing about four thousand leguas without any storms.
They saw only two desert islets, the Ysolle In fortunate, and
saw many sharks near them. Without good weather, they would
have died of hunger in the vast sea.
 Arrival at the Philippines
On March 16, 1521, the captain-general arrived at Zamal, a
high land three hundred leguas from Latroni.
On March 18, They retired and returned to Humunu, Accuada
da li buoni Seginialli, the watering place of good signs. The
archipelago of San Lazaros was discovered on St. Lazarus'
Sabbath.
On March 22, men arrived to show fowls in a district,
purchasing items from us.
 At the Limasawa
The Island of Mazaua or known today as Limasawa Island in
southern leyte carved a very significant place in Philippines
History. Because, in 1521 a Portuguese born spanish explorer
and navigator, Ferdinand Magellan and his crew came ashore
and celebrated the first Roman Catholic mass on the Island of
Limasawa.
This is the country's first catholic mass officiated by Fr. Pedro
Valderrama on March 31, 1521, upon orders of Portuguese
explorer Ferdinand Magellan. The mass on Limasawa marked
the birth of Roman Catholicism in the country, which remains
as the nation's dominant religion in the country up to the
present.
Easter Sunday Mass at Limasawa
There have been a mass held by the captain-general early on
the the Sunday morning, last of march.

The captain-general sent a priest and an interpreter.

 Arrival at Cebu
Ferdinand Magellan arrived in cebu on April 7, 1521. Ferdinand
Magellan told his malay slave, Enrique to assure the people of
cebu that they came as friends not as enemies.
The Cebu chieftain Rajah Humabon welcomed the spaniards,
gifts were exchanged, and two parties sealed their friendship
with blood compact.
Afterwards, Rajah Humabon, his wife and hundreds of his
native warriors agreed to accept Christianity and were
consequently baptized.
Magellan planted a cross to signify this important event about
the propagation of the Roman Catholic faith in what is now
cebu, in the central Philippines.
 Mass Baptism in Cebu
• After dinner the priest and some of the others went ashore to
baptize the queen, who came with forty women.
• Counting men, women and children, were baptized eight hundred
souls.
• Before that week had-gone, all the persons of that island, and
some from the other islands were baptized
• There were many villages on that island. All those villages
rendered obedience to us, and gave us food and tribute. But one
city was burned on that island and it was called Balaia.
 The Mactan Affair
On April 26, Zula, a chief of Matan, sent sixty men to fight
against Cilalulapu, a chief of Matan because two goats
cannot be sent because of his refusal to obey the King of
Spagnia.
The captain-general decided to send three boatloads of men
to help him fight against Cilalulapu. After a night of begging,
the captain-general sent sixty men, including the Christian
King, prince, chief men, and balanguais, to Matan. The natives,
using bamboo lances and stakes, waited until morning to
gather more men.
 The Mactan Affair
The captain formed two divisions and began fighting, but the
natives charged down, shooting arrows and spears. The
captain-general sent men to burn their houses to terrify them,
but the natives were roused to greater fury. Due to this, two of
the captain-general's men were killed, while the other twenty
or thirty houses were burned.
A captain of a group of men faced numerous native attacks,
including poisoned arrow wounds, and fought for over an hour.
He was killed by an Indian spear, although helped by the
Christian King multiple times.
 The Mactan Affair
Upon the death of the captain, he was praised for his efforts
by the king who wept on his death.
The battle took place on April 27th, 1521, with eight men killed
and four Indians killed by boats' mortars. Only fifteen enemy
were killed, many wounded.
The Christian king offered to give the captain and other killed
men merchandise, but the people of Matan refused, focusing
on keeping him as a memorial. On the day the captain was
killed, the city's four traders carried the merchandise to the
ships.
 The Return Voyage to Spain
February 11,1522 - they left the island of Timor and took to the
great open sea called Laut Chidol.
They were nine weeks near the Bonna Speranza “Good Hope”
with their sails hauled down because of the furious storm.
Most of the men were sick and wished to go to a Portuguese
settlement called Mozambich because the ship was leaking
badly and the lack of water and goods.
However some are determined to go to Spagnia living or dead.
July 9, 1522 - they went to an island called Sancto Jacobo for
more goods
 The Return Voyage to Spain
After sailing again, men were tasked to return to the shore for
rice but thirteen of them were arrested told the Portuguese the
captain was dead and that they were not going to Spagnia,
the arrested were left behind
September 6, 1522 - they arrived at the bay of San Lucar with
only eighteen men out of sixteen men and the majority of them
sick.
They have sailed 12,460 leaguas and completed the
circumnavigation of the world from east to west
 The Return Voyage to Spain
September 8 - theyve cast the anchor near the quay of
Seviglia and discharged all the artillery
Tuesday - they visited the shrine of Santa Maria de la Victoria
“St. Mary of Victory” and the Santa Maria de l’Antique (St.
Mary of Antiquity)
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