FERDINAND MAGELLAN
calmness of the sea and he named it
King Charles of Spain who granted the approval
of Magellan proposal plan of a great sea
expedition.
5 GALLEON SHIPS
TRINIDAD – magellan boarded to lead and to
command over a fleet of five-gallon ships. (ship
loyal and faithful)
SAN ANTONIO- commanded by Juan de
Cartagena.
CONCEPTION- commanded by Gaspar de
Quesada.
VICTORIA- commanded by Luis De Mendoza
SANTIAGO- commanded by Juan Serrano. (ship
loyal and faithful)
(tasked to look for spies Island)
 Started sailing the west route of Europe
 September 1519 sailed off from
Sanlucar de barrameda espana.
*Headed across the Atlantic Ocean.
*Reach South America.
*Starvation made the ships crews
morale low and unhappy.
*They found land and reach the Port of
St. Julian
3 galleon ship commanders who had
misunderstanding
 Mendoza
 Quesada
 Cartagena
 October 21, 1520 magellan entered the
strait he had been seeking, known as
strait of Magellan.
 Commander of San Antonio ship and his
crew decided to go back to sapin.
 November 1520 they Reach the Pacific
Ocean.
 Magellan amazed with peaceful and
Mar Pacifico (Pacific Ocean)
 March 1521 they reach the pacific
island of guam.
*they finally got some food refilled their
food storage.
 They sailed on to the Philippines
Archipelago and landed in Cebu.
 Rajah Humabon and his wife warmly
welcomed the arrival of Magellan.
 Magellan Introduce the Christianity and
convice to convert the native to
Christianity.
 Humabon and his wife Babtized with
testimonial acceptance to Christianity.
(MARKED EVENT THE BIRTH OF
CHRISTIANITY IN CEBU)
 March 17, 1521 magellan planted the
famous Magellan’s cross with some
Portuguese and Spanish soldiers
(sign of triumph over the birth of
Christianity in cebu).
 Magellan asked raha humabon helped
to spread Christianity.
 Datu Lapu- Lapu of maktan Island
disagreed to raha humabon and took a
haed stand against paying homages to
the king of spain.
 Raha humabon wanted to cut the
leadership power and strong dominace
of datu lapu-lapu over the mactan
island.
 April 27, 1521 Battle of Mactan erupted.
(Started)
 Magellan used European weaponry to
bombarded the village of datu lapu
lapu.
 Bolo’s, spears, bows, arrows with poison
on tip versus gun and canones.
 Magellan hit on his neck by poisonous
arrow which cause his death on April 27
1921.
  Victoria ship successfully retuned to
spain in September 1522. With full
cargp of various spices.

ONE OF THE GREATEST FEATS IN THE HISTORY

ON NAVIGATION.