1480 CE - 1521 CE: Life of the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan.

1480 CE: The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan is born in Villa Real in Tras os Montes.

1492 CE: Ferdinand Magellan joins the royal Portuguese court as a page.

1510 CE: Ferdianand Magellan assists in the establishment of Portuguese Goa.

1511 CE: Ferdinand Magellan assists in the establishment of Portuguese Malacca in Malaysia.

1513 CE: Ferdinand Magellan participates in the Portuguese expeditionary force that attacks Azemmour in Morroco.

1517 CE: Ferdinand Magellan renounces his Portuguese citizenship and moves to Seville.

1518 CE: Charles I of Spain formally accepts the proposal of Ferdinand Magellan to sail to Asia via the Americas.

1519 CE - 1522 CE: Ferdinand Magellan's expedition circumnavigates the globe for the first time.

1519 CE: The carrack Victoria is launched in Gipzkoa in Spain. It will be the only ship of Ferdinand Magellan's fleet to circumnavigate the globe.

1519 CE: Ferdinand Magellan's five-ship fleet leaves Seville to circumnavigate the globe.

1519 CE: Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation fleet leaves the Canary Islands.

1519 CE: Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation fleet arrives in Rio de Janeiro.

1520 CE: Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation fleet winters at San Julián Bay in southern Argentina.

1520 CE: Santiago, a ship of Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation fleet, is wrecked in a storm off the coast of Argentina.

1520 CE: Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation fleet sails through the Straits of Magellan in Tierra del Fuego.

1520 CE: San Antonio, a ship in Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation fleet, returns to Spain.

1520 CE: Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation fleet leaves the coast of South America near Santiago to cross the Pacific Ocean.

1521 CE: Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation fleet spots their first land after crossing the Pacific Ocean, an island they call San Pablo.

1521 CE: Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation fleet sails through Micronesia.

1521 CE: Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation fleet reachs the island of Guam in the Marianas group.

1521 CE: Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation fleet reaches the Philippine Islands.

1521 CE: Ferdinand Magellan is killed in a battle on Cebu in the Philippines.

1521 CE: Concepción, a ship in Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation fleet, is burned after being deemed unseaworthy.

1521 CE: Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation fleet reaches Brunei.

1521 CE: Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation fleet reaches Tidore, one of the Spice Islands.

1521 CE: Victoria, one of the two remaining ships of Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation fleet, leaves the Spice Islands for home.

1522 CE: Victoria, commanded by Juan Sebastian Elcano and the only surviving ship of the original five of Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation fleet, returns to Spain.

1522 CE: Trinidad, the flagship of Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation fleet, is captured by the Portuguese in the Spice Islands and wrecked in a storm.