Ferdinand Magellan died 500 years ago today. As this article says, he and a crew of 240 and five ships set sail in 1519, and about 20 crewmen and one ship returned in 1522, thereby making the first circumambulation of the earth. In the Philippines, the occasion commemorates indigenous resistance to colonialism. The surviving crew became pioneers in the exploration of the globe.
https://www.dw.com/en/magellan-and-the-worlds-first-circumnavigation/a-49946044
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