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- What does Pigafetta's Chronicles want to convey?
- Rewrite the chronology of the voyage above in a manner of writing a travelogue.
Transcribed Image Text:21 October 1520: The fleet reaches Cabo Virgenes on the feast of St Ursula and the Eleven
Thousand Virgins at latitude 52* 20' S, longitude 68° 21' W.
1 November 1520: Magellan discovers and names the strait Todos los Santos in honour of All
Saints' Day.
November 1520: Estevio Gomez succeeds in the one successful mutiny of the voyage and together
with the pilot Hierónimo Guerra takes command of the S. Antonio and returns to Spain, arriving 6
May 1521.
28 November 1520: The fleet, consisting of Trinidad, Concepción, and Victoria pass Cabo Pilar
(which Magellan names Deseado) on Desolation Island, and enters the Pacific Ocean: Wednesday,
28 November 1520, we debouched from that Strait, engulfing ourselves in thePacific Sea'.
1 December 1520: After steering north along the coast of present-day Chile, the fleet sights Cabo
Tres Montes in latitude 47 S.
24 January 1521: The fleet sights the uninhabited Islas Infortunatas identified by most authorities
as Puka Puka in the Tuamoto archipelago in 14* 50' S.
4 February 1521: The fleet sights the Isla de los Tiberones, probably Caroline in 10* 00' s.
13 February 1521: The fleet reaches the equator.
6 March 1521: The fleet sights the islas de Ladrones or Las Islas de Velas Latinas, identified as Guam
and Rota of the Marianas.
9 March 1521: The fleet departs from the Marianas on a course west by south.
16 March 1521: The fleet sights the mountains of Samar in the Philippines and anchors at the island
of Suluan at latitude 11° N: 'At dawn on Saturday, 16 March 1521, we came upon a high land at a
distance of three hundred leagues from the islands of thieves'.
18 March 1521: Europeans make their first contact with Filipinos on Homonhan Island.
25 March 1521: Pigafetta falls overboard and is nearly drowned: "I was aided not, I believe, indeed,
through my merits, but through the mercy of that font of charity (the Virgin)".
28 March 1521: The fleet anchors off Limasawa (Pigafetta's Mazaua) at the southern entrance to
Suriago Strait; Magellan and his men are well received there by the natives and good relations are
established with Rajah Colambu.
31 March 1521: Magellan has Easter mass celebrated on Limasawa Island.
6 April 1521: The fleet departs Limasawa.
7 April 1521: The fleet enters the port of Cebu, where, following negotiations, merchandise is
exchanged for provisions, and good relations are established.
14 April 1521: The Sultan Humabon is baptized (and renamed Don Carlos) by the flagship's chaplain
with all pomp and circumstance. Rajah Colambu is also baptized and named Don Juan after the
Infante. Magellan cures a sick elder, which leads to the burning of native idols.
27 April 1521: Magellan and sixty of his men in three longboats attack Rajah Lapu Lapu and his
forces on Mactan. They are driven back to the ships and Magellan is killed.
1 May 1521: Massacre of Europeans in the island of Cebu, including Duarte Barbosa and twenty-
five shipmates. At this time, the Concepción is abandoned. Only about 110 men still survive. João
Carvalho was elected captain-general.
21 June 1521: Victoria and Trinidad depart Palawan. They arrived at Brunei on the north-eastern
coast of Borneo on 9 July.
Transcribed Image Text:Chronology of the Voyage
28 March 1518: Charles V issues a capitulación stipulating a fleet of five ships and some 250 officers
and men for the expedition.
5 May 1519: A royal decree orders that 235 men should depart [Pigafetta says that 237 men were
on board). The lists published by Navarette come to 239 men: 62 on the Trinidad, 57 on the San
Antonio, 45 on the Victoria, 44 on the Concepción and 31 on the Santiago.
8 May 1519: A royal cédula is issued including seventy-four paragraphs of minute instructions for
the voyage.
May 1519: Antonio Pigafetta arrives in Seville in time to join the expedition and participate in final
preparations.
10 August 1519: The fleet departs Seville, anchoring at Sanlúcar de Barrameda, the outport of
Seville, for more than a month, in order to add to the provisions.
24 August 1519: Magellan makes his last will and testament.
20 September 1519: The fleet weighs anchor from Sanlúcar and shapes its course south-west.
Three years pass before the Victoria returns.
26 September 1519: The fleet reaches Tenerife in the Canaries.
3 October 1519: The fleet departs Tenerife and follows a south-west course down to latitude 27 N,
then changing to south by west.
18 October 1519: The fleet experiences a series of storms off Sierra Leone.
29 November 1519: The fleet reaches Cabo Santo Agostinho at latitude 8" 21 5, now Cabo Branco,
to the north of Recife.
13 December 1519: The fleet reaches Rio de Janeiro at latitude 22" 54' s.
20 December 1519: Trial, conviction, and execution of Antonio Salamone, master of the Victoria,
who had been caught in the act of sodomy with an apprentice seaman off the coast of Guinea.
26 December 1519: The fleet departs Rio de Janeiro.
11-12 January 1520: The fleet reaches the Rio de la Plata, which Magellan calls Rio de Solis after
the explorer killed by natives there in 1516.
2 February 1520: The fleet departs its anchorage near Montevideo.
13 February 1520: The fleet experiences storms off Bahia Blanca.
27 February 1520: The fleet anchors off a broad bay; they call it Bahia de los Patos for the immense
number of penguins.
31 March 1520: The fleet enters Puerto San Julián (in 49 30' S), where it remains for five months,
until 24 August. Here the encounters with the Patagonian giants and the mutiny take place.
1 April 1520: During the night between 1-2 April, Juan de Cartagena attempts to kill the master of
the San Antonio, Juan de Elorriaga, and put in chains Alvaro de Mesquita. Gaspar de Quesada and
Juan Sebastián Del Cano take possession of the Concepción and Luis de Mendoza of the Victoria.
Magellan suppresses the mutiny. A court martial is held and forty men are found guilty and
condemned to death, including Gaspar de Quesada.
3 May 1520: The Santiago is lost while searching for the strait.
24 August 1520: The voyage is resumed.
14 September 1520: The four remaining ships of the fleet reach Rio Santa Cruz at latitude 50° S,
where they remain until 18 October.
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