<c>Seville<c>San Lucar<dep>1519 Sep 20<c>Tenerife<arr>1519 Dec 13<c>Rio de Janeiro<c>Rio de la Plata<arr>1520 March 25(5)<c>San Julián<dep>1520 Aug 25(5)<c>Santa Cruz<dep>1520 Oct 15(5)<arr>1520 Oct 23(5)<c>Strait of Magellan<dep>1520 Nov 28<arr>1521 Jan 24<c>Tuamotu Archipelago<c>Flint Island<arr>1521 May 2<c>Guam<c>Cebu<info>Magellan, born Portuguese, changed his nationality and his name to the Spanish, Hernando de Magellanes. He enlisted as a seaman under Francisco d'Almeida in the fleet that sailed for India in 1505. On September 20, 1519, he began his own voyage – a circumnavigation of the earth. He began with five ships. He was killed in Cebu, Phillipines, after making the first crossing of the Pacific ocean. One of the ships, under Captain Carvalho, returned to Spain in 1522.
#e <t>coin<n>"Pacific Ocean"<d>1520 Nov 28<c>Strait of Magellan<au>Magellan<info>Magellan named it Pacific because of the fair weather that day.
#e <t>exploration<d>1521 Aug(2)<e>1522 Sep 8<n>Carvalho's return voyage<c>Cebu<arr>1521 Nov<c>Tidore<c>Timor<c>Indian Ocean<c>Mozambique Channel<c>Cape of Good Hope<c>Cape Verde Islands<arr>1522 Sep 6<c>San Lucar<arr>1522 Sep 8<c>Seville<info>After the death of Magellan, Captain Carvalho returned to Spain in one of the original five ships, arriving in Seville on September 8, 1522.
// Columbus
#p <nat>Italian<o>explorer<n>Christopher Columbus<b>1446(5)<d>1506 May 20<c>Genoa
// first voyage
<c>Palos<dep>1492 Aug 3<arr>1492 Aug 13<c>Canary Islands<dep>1492 Sep 6<arr>1492 Oct 12<c>Watlings, Bahamas<c>Rum Cay<c>Lord Island<c>Crooked Island<c>Cuba<c>Haiti<c>La Navidad<dep>1493 Jan 4<arr>1493 Feb 18<c>Santa Maria, Azores<dep>1493 Feb 24<arr>1493 Mar 4<c>Lisbon
#p <nat>New Zealander<o>explorer<n>Sir Edmund Hillary<b>1919 Jul 20
#e <t>exploration<d>1953 May 29<n>Mount Everest climbed<c>Mount Everest<au>Hillary<info>Sir Edmund Hillary reached the summit of Mount Everest, becoming, along with the Nepalese Tenzing Norgay, the first to climb the highest mountain in the world.