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After traveling three-quarters of the way around the globe, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan is killed during a tribal skirmish on Mactan Island in the Philippines.
Magellan’s Death: A Detailed Description by Antonio Pigafetta. Magellan died because he underestimated the battle-hardened Filipino natives. Every April 27, Filipinos commemorate the Battle of Mactan, the fateful day when Lapu-Lapu led his tribe to repel Spaniards from invading our shores.
Death of Ferdinand Magellan. After the death of Magellan, the surviving sailors, under the command of Gonzalo Gómez de Espinoza, resumed their expedition on two ships, abandoning the third because of lack of adequate hands. Disease and shipwreck disrupted Espinoza's voyage and most of the crew died.
But Filipino commemorations remind audiences that Magellan died halfway through the expedition in the Philippines and that only one ship with just 18 survivors limped home to Seville.
On April 27, 1521, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed by a poison arrow during a skirmish on the island of Mactan in what is now the Philippines. Magellan and his crew were assisting a local king they had allied with when they landed on the island of Cebu weeks earlier.
The story of Ferdinand Magellan’s “discovery” of the Philippines while in search of another route to nearby Moluccas and his subsequent death at the hands of Lapu-Lapu is treated as a landmark event of Philippine history: the true “beginning” of our Filipino consciousness, so to speak.
On April 27, 1521, Magellan faced a fierce ... Discover the dramatic end of famed explorer Ferdinand Magellan on the shores of Mactan Island in the Philippines.
Magellan died in the Philippines during his voyage, and his crew completed the return trip to Spain in 1522. Born c. 1480 into a family of minor Portuguese nobility, Magellan became a skilled sailor and naval officer in service of the Portuguese Crown in Asia.
Magellan was killed on Mactan Island off Cebu Island by a local leader named Lapu Lapu. A plaque on Mactan reads: "Here Lapu Lapu and his men repulsed the Spanish invaders, killing their leader, Ferdinand Magellan, Thus Lapu Lapu became the first Filipino to have repelled European aggression."
After a gruelling journey south, putting down a mutiny and wrecking a ship, Magellan discovers ‘Magellan’s Strait’, a route through the southern tip of South America to the Pacific. Navigating his way takes over a month through unknown waters in terrible conditions with the loss of another ship.