Why is Magellan so great How did Magellan die?

Magellan's outstanding contribution was not in the circumnavigation of the world itself, but in his bold conviction and excellent command of the cause. He was the first man to sail across the Pacific Ocean from east to west. With more than 3 months of sailing, he changed the popular perception of the time:

It takes only a few days to reach the East Indies by boat from the New World. Magellan's fleet circumnavigated the globe and proved that the earth is a circle, and whether it is from west to east or from east to west, there is no doubt that it can circle our planet and return to its original place. This will always be an indelible great achievement in the history of mankind.

Died in the Philippines during a round-the-world trip.

Ferdinand Magellan.

Full name Fernando de Magellan, Portuguese.

fernão de magalhães ；Spanish.

fernando de magallanes；English: Ferdinand Magellan (1480 – 27 April 1521) was a Portuguese explorer, navigator, colonist, and explorer for Spain.

From 1519 to September 1522, leading a fleet to complete the Tan Pai circumnavigation of the world, Magellan died in a tribal conflict in the Philippines on the way around the world, and was killed by a tribal chief named Lapu-Lapu. After his death, the fleet continued westward to return to Europe, where he completed the first human voyage around the world.

Main Impacts:

The Victoria was the smallest of the five ships, and it took three years to circumnavigate the globe, and the value of the cloves it brought back was equivalent to the cost of building an entire fleet.

The captain of the returning ship talked about Magellan's not: he was too strict with his subordinates, too reckless in the Philippines, and accused him of being suspected of defecting to Portugal all the way. The flotilla managed to cross the Pacific Ocean to reach the Spice Islands.

But no shipping route back to the Americas was found, and the establishment of the Pacific route had to wait for another half a century of exploration.

The first voyage around the world was actually a failed journey, geographically meaningful and commercially unprofitable. Magellan was burned as a sinner by the Spanish letter and condemned by the king.

But there was more than one nautical diary left on board, especially with a Venetian Pigafitta, who recorded his experiences along the way, admired Magellan, and was lucky enough to be one of the eighteen good men. It was he who published his nautical diary among the people, and later generations proposed to be rehabilitated and credited with Magellan for his first circumnavigation voyage.

Magellan was hacked to death.

On the night of April 27, 1521, Magellan led more than 60 people in three small boats to Mactan Island, but due to the rocky water, the ships could not dock, so Magellan and his crew of more than 60 people waded into the water.

The rebellious islanders were already in good faith, and Magellan ordered the artillerymen and archers to attack them, but they could not attack. Then, the islanders pounced on them, and the crew could not resist them, fighting and retreating, and the islanders pursued closely. Magellan, anxious to relieve the siege, ordered the village to be burned in order to disturb the hearts of the people.

When the islanders saw their houses burned, they pursued them even more angrily. When they learned that Magellan was the commander of the fleet, the attack intensified, and many fought desperately, and Magellan was first stabbed with a javelin and then hacked to death by the islanders who caught up.

The story of Magellan's journey through the Americas:

At the end of August 1520, the fleet sailed out of the port of San Julián, along the Atlantic Ocean.

The coast continues southward.

Prepare to look for a strait to the "South China Sea". After three days of sailing, at 52 ° south latitude, a bay was discovered.

Magellan sent two ships to investigate, hoping to identify the waterways leading to the "South China Sea". That night there was a storm, a roar, a huge wave.

The monstrous nature of the ship was in danger of hitting the cliff and sinking at any moment, and the emergency lasted for two days. On October 21, they found a gap to the "South Sea", which came to be known as the Strait of Magellan.

Magellan led a fleet along the Strait of Magellan. The indigenous people on both sides of the strait rejoice in burning bonfires.

The day is blue and smoky, and the night is bright, like a guard of honor specially arranged for Magellan's arrival.

Magellan was so overjoyed that he saw the land in the night and named the land on the southern shore of the Channel, "Tierra del Fuego".