Timeline of the Magellan–Elcano circumnavigation | Wikipedia audio article
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Timeline of the Magellan–Elcano circumnavigation


00:01:26 1 Timeline
00:01:35 1.1 1519
00:02:00 1.2 1520
00:03:28 1.3 1521
00:05:19 1.4 1522



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The Magellan–Elcano circumnavigation was the first voyage around the world in human history. It was a Spanish expedition that sailed from Seville in 1519 under the command of Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese, in search of a maritime path from Spain to East Asia through the Americas and across the Pacific Ocean, and concluded by Spanish navigator Juan Sebastian Elcano in 1522. Elcano and the 18 survivors of the expedition were the first men to circumnavigate the globe in a single expedition. 
The  Spanish fleet, the Armada de Molucca, that left Spain on 20 September 1519 consisted of five ships with 270 men: Trinidad under Magellan, Captain General; San Antonio under Juan de Cartagena; Concepcion under Gaspar de Quesada; Santiago under João Serrão; and Victoria under Luiz Mendoza. 
After crossing the Atlantic and wintering in South America  the expedition navigated the Straits of Magellan, then crossed the Pacific to the Philippines.
Following Magellan's death in Mactan (Philippines) in 1521, Juan Sebastián Elcano took command of the ship Victoria, sailing back to Spain across the Indian Ocean, round the Cape of Good Hope and north along the west coast of Africa.
The circumnavigation was completed by Elcano and a crew of 18 men in Victoria, returning to Spain three years after they left on 6 September 1522.