The Victoria completes the first circumnavigation
The Victoria reached Sanlúcar de Barrameda under Juan Sebastián Elcano, having sailed west from the Moluccas across the Indian Ocean and round the Cape while avoiding Portuguese ports. Eighteen men landed, from five ships and some 270 who had sailed three years before. The voyage settled that the world could be circled and that the Pacific was vast; it did not settle the legal question it had been sent to answer, because the longitude of the Moluccas still could not be measured.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Juan Sebastián Elcano · person · Spain · not located
- Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães) · person · Portugal · not located
- The Moluccas (Maluku Islands) · region · Indonesia
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo
The principal contemporary narrative of the 1519–1522 circumnavigation: the departure, the strait, the Pacific crossing, Magellan's death at Mactan and the Victoria's return. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted in this session. Dates and the survivor count attributed to it in this pack are from the author's knowledge of the standard editions and require checking. Pigafetta is a partisan witness, favourable to Magellan and hostile to Elcano, which a reader should weigh.
manuscript; surviving copies include those at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana and the Beinecke Library · c. 1524–1525 · Partly verified
Antonio Pigafetta, Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo, the eyewitness account of the Magellan–Elcano expedition by a survivor of the voyage
Recorded on Juan Sebastián Elcano
- Albuquerque takes Malacca
- The Magellan expedition sails from Sanlúcar
- Magellan is killed at Mactan
- The Victoria completes the first circumnavigation
- The Treaty of Zaragoza settles the Moluccas by sale
Related
Related because they share a subject in the Atlas — never because the text looks similar.
- The Treaty of Zaragoza settles the Moluccas by sale · 1529-04-22
- Magellan is killed at Mactan · 1521-04-27
- The Magellan expedition sails from Sanlúcar · 1519-09-20
- Albuquerque takes Malacca · 1511-08