The first circumnavigation of the Earth, completed by the expedition led initially by Ferdinand Magellan and later by Juan ...

His expedition was the first to sail around the world ... and rewritten for a new generation.” A 1545 map traces the route of Magellan's world voyage—a milestone in the centuries-long process ...

(Follow the troubled path of the first voyage around the world ... He had prepared a series of maps for the Magellan expedition in 1519. After Elcano’s return in 1522, García de Toreno ...

The first journey around the world began under the command of Ferdinand Magellan and was concluded by Juan Sebastián Elcano. Five boats left Seville on September 20, 1519. Storms, famine ...