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    Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who in 1520 discovered the strait linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans between South America and Tierra del Fuego island, now named the Strait of Magellan. On April 27, 1521, Magellan was killed by a poison arrow during a skirmish on the island of Mactan in what is now the Philippines while assisting a local king he had allied with. Magellan and his crew were the first Europeans to sail across the Pacific Ocean, completing the first circumnavigation of the Earth.

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    Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who in 1520 discovered the strait linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans between South America and Tierra del Fuego island, now named the Strait of Magellan. On April 27, 1521, Magellan was killed by a poison arrow during a skirmish on the island of Mactan in what is now the Philippines while assisting a local king he had allied with. Magellan and his crew were the first Europeans to sail across the Pacific Ocean, completing the first circumnavigation of the Earth.

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    Araling Panlipunan

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    Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who in 1520 discovered the strait linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans between South America and Tierra del Fuego island, now named the Strait of Magellan. On April 27, 1521, Magellan was killed by a poison arrow during a skirmish on the island of Mactan in what is now the Philippines while assisting a local king he had allied with. Magellan and his crew were the first Europeans to sail across the Pacific Ocean, completing the first circumnavigation of the Earth.

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    VAUGHN MATTHEW A.

    MUTIA
    Student
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    CAMILLE GALVE
    Teacher

    ARALING
    PANLIPUNAN Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese Fernão de Magalhães, Spanish
    Fernando de Magallanes or Hernando de Magallanes, (born 1480,
    Sabrosa or Porto?, Portugal—died ...

    SCRAPBOOK Parents: Rui de Magalhães, Alda de Mesquita


    Died: April 27, 1521, Mactan
    Place of birth: Sabrosa
    In 1520 Ferdinand Magellan discovered the channel linking the
    Atlantic and Pacific oceans, between the mainland tip of South
    America and Tierra del Fuego island. Named after him, the Strait of
    Submitted by: Magellan was an important sailing-ship route before the building of
    the Panama Canal in 1914 offered a significantly shorter Atlantic- what is now the Philippines. Magellan and his crew were assisting a
    Pacific passage. local king they had allied with when they landed on the island of
    On April 27, 1521, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was Cebu weeks earlier.
    killed by a poison arrow during a skirmish on the island of Mactan in

    Jan Pieterszoon Coen, (born Jan. 8, 1587, Hoorn, Holland [now in


    the Netherlands]—died Sept. 21, 1629, Batavia, Dutch East Indies
    [now Jakarta, Indon.]), chief founder of the Dutch commercial
    empire in the East Indies. As the fourth governor-general of the
    Dutch East Indies, he established a chain of fortified posts in the
    Indonesian Archipelago, displacing the Portuguese and
    preventing penetration by the English. His dream of a vast maritime
    empire stretching from Japan to India never came to fruition, but his
    energetic administration established Dutch rule in Indonesia, where
    it remained for four centuries.

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