First Voyage Around the World

by: Antonio Pigafetta

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R A FAE L CABIL AN G A N
E R OL BOL AN OS
M AR K KR ISTIA N D BR ION E S
J OSE J U L Y BOR G ON IA
P OLL Y JOHN A R U G A Y
Content of the
Report
•Biography
. - Antonio Pigafetta
. - Ferdinand Magellan
- Lapu- Lapu

• Chronological of the Voyage

(Historical Context of the Document)
• Contribution of the Document
• Relevance of the Document
Biography
A N T O N I O PIGA FE TTA
FE R DI N A ND M AGEL L A N
L A PU -L A PU
Antonio Pigafetta
• Pigafetta's exact year of birth is not known,
with estimates ranging between 1480 and
1491. A birth year of 1491 would have
made him around 30 years old during
Magellan's expedition, which historians
have considered more probable than an age
close to 40
• Pigafettaa belonged to a rich family city of 
Vicenza in northeast Italy.
• In his youth he studied astronomy, 
geography and cartography.
 Ferdinand Magellan
was a Portuguese explorer who organised
the Spanish expedition to the East Indies
 from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the 
first circumnavigation of the Earth, which
was completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano.
 Lapu-Lapu
Cilapulapu, was a datu of Mactan in the 
Visayas. Modern Philippine society
regards him as the first Filipino hero
because he was the first native to resist 
imperial Spanish colonization. He is
best known for the Battle of Mactan that
happened at dawn on April 27, 1521,
where he and his warriors defeated
Portuguese explorer 
Ferdinand Magellan, who was killed in
battle.
Historical Context of
the Document
 28 March1518:
Charles V issues a capitulaciónstipulating a fleet offive ships
and some 250 officers and men for the expedition.
 MAY 1519
5 MAY 1519 8 MA Y 1519

A royal decree orders that 235 men A royal cédula is issued including
should depart [Pigafetta says that 237 men seventy-fourparagraphs of minute
wereon board. The lists published by instructions for the voyage.
Navarette come to 239 men: 62 on the
Trinidad, 57 on the San Antonio, 45 Antonio Pigafetta arrives in Seville in
on the Victoria, 44 on the Concepción time to join the expedition and
and 31 on the Santiago. participate in final preparations.
 August
1519
10 August 1519: 24 August1519:
The fleet departs Seville,
Magellan makes his last will
anchoring at Sanlúcar de Barrameda,
and testament.
theoutport of Seville, for more than
a month, in order to add to the
provisions.
 September 1519

20 S E PT E M BE R 1 5 19 :

The fleet weighs anchor from 26 S EP TEMB ER 1 5 19 :

Sanlúcar and shapes its course
The fleet reachesTenerife in the
southwest. Three yearspass before the
Canaries.
Victoriareturns.
 October 1519
3 October 1519
The fleetdeparts Tenerife and follows
a southwest coursedown to latitude
27° N, thenchanging to south by
west.

18 October 1519
The fleetexperiences a series of
stormsoff Sierra Leone.
 29 November 1519:
The fleet reaches Cabo Santo Agostinho at latitude
8° 21´ S, now Cabo Branco, to thenorth of Recife.
 DECEMBER 1519
13 D EC EMBER 1 51 9
: The fleet reaches Rio de Janeiro at latitude
22° 54´ S.
20 D E CE M BE R 1 5 1 9:
Trial, conviction, and execution of Antonio
Salamone, master of the Victoria, who had
been caught in the act of sodomy with
an apprentice seaman off the coastof
Guinea.

26 DECEMBE R 1 5 1 9 :
The fleet departs Rio de Janeiro.
 11–12 January 1520:
The fleet reaches the Rio delaPlata, which
Magellan callsRio deSolisafterthe explorer
killed by natives therein 1516.
 February 1520
2 February 1520: The fleetdeparts its anchorage near
Montevideo.

13 February 1520: The fleetexperiences stormsoff Bahia

Blanca.

27 February 1520: The fleetanchors off a broad bay;theycall

it Bahia de los Patosfor the immense number ofpenguins.
 31 March 1520:
The fleet enters Puerto San Julián (in
49° 30´ S), whereit remains for five
months, until 24 August. Here the
encounters with the Patagonian
giants and the mutiny take place.
 1 April1520:
During the night between 1–2 April Juande
Cartagena attempts to kill the master of the San
Antonio, Juan de Elorriaga, and put in chains Alvaro
de Mesquita.Gaspar de Quesada and Juan Sebastián
del Cano take possession of the Concepción and
Luis de Mendoza of the Victoria. Magellan
suppresses the mutiny. A courtmartial is held and
forty men are found guilty and condemned to
death, including Gaspar de Quesada.
 3 May 1520:
The Santiago is lost while searching
for the strait .
24 August 1520: The
voyage is resumed.
 14 September 1520
The four remaining ships of the fleet reach
Rio Santa Cruz at latitude 50° S, where they
remain until 18 October
 21 October 1520:
The fleet reaches Cabo Vírgenes on the
feast of St Ursula and the Eleven
Thousand Virgins at latitude 52° 20´S,
longitude68°21´W.
 November 1520
1 November 1520: Magellan discovers and names the strait Todos los
Santos in honour of All Saints’ Day.

November 1520: Estevão Gomez succeeds in the one successful mutiny of the
voyage and togetherwith the pilot Hierónimo Guerra takes command of the S.
Antonioand returns to Spain, arriving 6 May 1521.

28 November 1520: The fleet, consisting of Trinidad, Concepción, and Victoria

pass Cabo Pilar (which Magellan names Deseado) on Desolation Island, and
enters the Pacific Ocean: ‘Wednesday, 28 November 1520, we debouched
from that Strait, engulfing ourselves in the Pacific Sea’.
 1 December 1520:
After steering north along the coast of present-dayChile, the fleet
sightsCabo Tres Montes inlatitude 47° S.
 24January 1521:
The fleet sights the uninhabited Islas Infortunatas identified by
most authoritiesasPuka Puka inthe Tuamoto archipelago in14°
50´ S
 FEBRUARY 1521
4 February1521: The fleetsights the Isla de los
Tiberones, probablyCaroline in 10° 00´ S.
13 February1521: The fleetreaches the equator.
 March 1521
6 March 1521: The fleet sights the Islas de Ladrones or Las Islas de Velas Latinas,
identified as Guam and Rota of the Marianas.

9 March 1521: The fleet departs from the Marianas on a course west by south.

16 March 1521: The fleet sights the mountains of Samar in the Philippines and
anchors at the island of Suluan at latitude 11° N: ‘At dawnon Saturday, 16 March
1521, we came upon a high land at a distanceof three hundredleagues from the islands
of thieves’.

18 March 1521: Europeans maketheir first contact with Filipinos on Homonhon Island.
25 March 1521: Pigafetta falls overboard and is nearly drowned: ‘I was aided
not, I believe, indeed,through my merits, but through the mercy of that
font of charity [the Virgin]’.

28 March 1521: The fleet anchors off Limasawa (Pigafetta’s Mazaua) at the
southern entrance to Suriago Strait; Magellan and his men are well received
thereby the natives and good relations are established with Rajah Colambu.

31 March 1521: Magellan has Easter mass celebrated on Limasawa

Island.
 April 1521
6 April 1521: The fleet departs Limasawa.

7 April 1521: The fleet enters the port of Cebu,where, following negotiations,merchandise is
exchanged forprovisions, and good relations are established.

14 April 1521: The Sultan Humabon is baptized (and renamed Don Carlos) by the flagship’s
chaplain with all pomp and circumstance. Rajah Colambu is also baptized and named Don
Juan after the Infante. Magellan cures a sick elder, whichleads to the burning of native idols.

27 April 1521: Magellan and sixty of hismen in three longboats attack Rajah Lapu Lapu and
hisforceson Mactan. They are driven back to the ships and Magellan is killed.
 May 1521
1 May 1521: Massacre of Europeans inthe islandof Cebu,
including Duarte Barbosa and twenty-five shipmates. At this time,
the Concepción is abandoned. Only about 110 men still survive.
João Carvalho waselected captain-general.
 June 1521- July 1521
21 June 1521:Victoria andTrinidad depart Palawan. They
arrived atBrunei on the north-eastern coast of Borneo on 9
July.
29 July 1521:The Europeans attack a group of junks off
Brunei, capturingfour and killing several others.
 August 1521
15 August 1521: Victoria and Trinidad callat Cimbonbon
(Banguey) on the south side of Balabac Strait, where they
remainforty-two days repairing the shipsand gathering
provisions .
 September 1521- October 1521
September 1521: Carvalhois degradedto his formerrankof flag pilot;
Gómez de Espinosa is elected captain-general and captain of the
Trinidad;Juan Sebastián de Elcanois elected captain of Victoria.

27 September 1521: The voyage is resumed and a junkcarrying

the governor of Palawan is sackedand the governor held for ransom.

26 October 1521: The two ships experience storms in the Celebes

Sea.
 6 November 1521: Victoria and Trinidad arrive at the Moluccas:
‘Therefore we thanked God and as anexpression of our joy discharged all
November 1521
our artillery’

8 November 1521: Trinidad and Victoria enter the harbour of Tidore,

most important of the five principal Moluccas, which include Ternate,
Motir, Makian, and Batjan ‘so that they spent from Sevilleto Maluco two
years, two monthsand twenty-eight days, for they sailed on the tenth of
August of 1519’ (Genoese pilot).

9 November 1521: The Europeans are received at Tidore by the Sultan

Manzor,who declares that heand all his people wishto become vassalsof
the emperor CharlesV.
 December 1521
18 December 1521: The Victoria and the Trinidad lift anchor to depart
but the Trinidad springs a leak.

21 December 1521: Victoria, under the command ofElcano, sets sail for
a ninemonth-long return voyage via the Cape ofGood Hope, with
forty-seven ofthe original crew and thirteen natives on board
(eighteen Christian and three Indonesians survive).Gómez de Espinosa
stays behind withfifty-three mento repair the Trinidad before
attempting to return across the Pacific to New Spain, where the cargo is
to be carried across the Isthmus ofPanama and shipped to Spain.
 January 1522- February 1522
10 January 1522: Victoria reaches Alor (Pigafetta’s Malua) in8° 20´ S
latitude.

25 January 1522: Victoria departs Alor and arrives the next day at the
island of Timor, along whichthe shipcoastsfor three weekswhile
trading for provisions.

10–11February 1522: Victoria sails from Timorinto the Indian Ocean,

called Laut Chidol.
 April 1522
6 April 1522: Trinidad sets sail from Tidore andstrugglesas far as
latitude43° N, before it isdecided to return to Tidore. Theship
andcrew are eventually captured by the Portuguese captain António
de Brito.Only four of the Trinidad’s crew eventually return to
the Iberian Peninsula. Espinosaspends four anda half years in
captivity inthe east before returning to Spain.
 May 1522
6 May 1522: Victoria doubles the Cape of GoodHope,
according to Pigafetta
.In fact, according to Albo, the sailors are convinced they
doubled the Cape 8 May, but then realize that they are inerror.
Thefleet double the Cape 16 May andentered the Atlantic 22
May.
 June 1522- July 1522
8 June 1522: Victoria crossesthe equator for the fourth time since
leaving Spain.

9 July 1522: Victoria anchores in the port of Ribeira Grande on the

Cape Verde island of Santiago. Between Timor and Cape Verde fifteen
Europeans and ten Indonesians havedied aboard the Victoria.

15 July 1522: Victoria departshastily from the Cape Verde islands.

Thirteen members of the crew are detained by the Portuguese
authorities.

28 July 1522: Tenerife of the CanaryIslandsis sighted

 August 1522- September 1522
7 August 1522: The volcanic island of Pico in the Azores was sighted.

21 August 1522: Victoria heads for Cape St Vincent and arrives there 4
September.

6 September 1522: Victoria enters the harbour of Sanlúcar deBarrameda,

and anchors off a quayat Seville on 8 September. Only eighteen Christians
and three Indonesians survive. 
Contribution of the Document
 ELABORATED THE LIFESTYLE BACK THEN AND IT
DESCRIBE WHAT THE LOCAL ISLANDERS
WITE, WHAT THEY ARE, HOW THEY COMMUNICATE,
AND HOW THEY LIVED
PIGAFETTA'S JOURNAL IS THE ONLY KNOWN DOCUMENT
ABOUT LAPU-LAPU'S LIFE.
CONSIDERED THE BEST SOURCE TODAY OF THE
CUSTOMS AND USAGE OF THE FILIPINOS IN THE EARLY
16TH CENTURY DUE TO THE DAILY NOTES PIGAFETTA TOOK
AND DETAILS ABOUT THE EXPEDITION THAT WROTE
ABOUT.
Relevance of the Document
AUGUST 10, 1519 STARTING POINT OF THE FIRST
EXPEDITION AROUND THE WORLD OF MAGELLAN
THEBOOK SERVED AS THE EVIDENCE THAT THE
WORLD IS ROUND AND NOT FLAT
THIS BOOK AIDS THE RESEARCHERS AND STUDENTS
OF TODAY IN UNDERSTANDING THE CONTEXT OF THE
MAGELLAN EXPEDITION AND HOW THE WHOLE
EUROPE - PHILIPPINES CONFLICT COMMENCED.
 MAGELLAN DISCOVERED THE PACIFIC OCEAN,
AND HE PROVE THAT THERE WAS A WAY
TO THE EAST BY SAILING TO THE WEST
WE'VE UNDER THIS ISSUE JUST SIMPLY
AS THE START OF THE SPANISH ERA AND
MAGELLAN BEING IN THE PHILIPPINES
WITHOUT TAKING INTO DEBATE THE CONTEXT AND
DIFFERENT REASONS OF THE EXPEDITION.
THE EXPEDITION THAT WAS HELD FROM 1519-1522:

• OPENED MANY DOORS IN SPAIN,

PHILIPPINES AND OTHER COUNTRIES.
•LED WORLD TO BE MORE GLOBALIZED SOCIETY
•BUSINESS ROSE BECAUSE OF THE DISCOVERIES
MADE UP TO DIFFERENT PRODUCTS.
•GIVE AS INFORMATION BY THE HELPED OF PRIMARY SOURCE
• DISCOVERED RELIGIONS
Th a nk
yO u !