Who is Magellan? Who discovered the Philippines? 5 fleets Importance of Magellan's travel

2.  High degree of national unification
 Highly centralized and financially capable
of supporting exploration and expansion
 Wanted to take possessions of the
fabulous riches of lands outside the
Europe
 Wanted to find alternative ocean routes
to avoid import taxes
 Catholicism

4.  Ferdinand Magellan
- A veteran Portuguese soldier
- served King Charles V of Spain in search of a
westward route to the “Spice Islands"(modern Maluku
Islands in Indonesia).
The king granted them:
 Monopoly of the discovered route for a period of ten
years.
 Their appointment as governors of the lands and
islands found, with 5% of the resulting net gains.
 A fifth of the gains of the travel.
 The right to levy one thousand ducats on upcoming
trips, paying only 5% on the remainder.
 Granting of an island for each one, apart from the six
richest, from which they would receive a fifteenth.

5. The King provided fund
for these and five fleet:
 Trinidad (110 tons, crew 55), under Magellan's
command
 San Antonio (120 tons, crew 60) commanded by
Juan de Cartagena
 Concepcion (90 tons, crew 45) commanded by
Gaspar de Quesada
 Santiago (75 tons, crew 32) commanded by Juan
Serrano
 Victoria (85 tons, crew 43), named after the
church of Santa Maria de la Victoria de Triana,
where Magellan took an oath of allegiance to
Charles V, commanded by Luis Mendoza.

6.  August 10, 1519 – the fleet sailed
westward from Seville in search of a
passageway to the Moluccas.
Victoria
SantiagoSan Antonio
Trinidad
Concepcion
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
San Antonio
Trinidad
Victoria
Santiago
Concepcion

7.  March 6, 1521 – after an exhausting
voyage across the Pacific ocean. The
explorers reached the ladrones Island
group (Marianas)
Oh I see a body of
island. I will named it
“Island of Saint
Lazarus
March 16

8. Homonhon
(where they rested and
stayed for 9days.
Limasawa Island
Magellan was greeted by nine men who were joyful
at their arrival. They represented the chieftain of the area.
Enrique, Magellan’s interpreter from Malacca, bade
them to come. For the first time in the history of mankind
a living man had encircled the globe.

9.  March 29, 1521 – Magellan made a blood
compact with the chieftain Rajah
Colambu.
 March 31, 1521 – the first Holy Sacrifice
of the Mass was Limasawa celebrated by
Father Pedro de Valderama.
 Magellan planted hastily a big cross on
the top of the hill.

10.  Magellan left Limasawa on April 4
Bye Limasawa !
Three days laterMactan and Cebu
Fired!!!
You must pay first the tribute
imposed on all incoming ships!
We need to buy food
King Seripalda Humabon
I refuse
it!

11.  The next day was the formal meeting between
the Cebuanos and European visitors.
 The King asked Magellan the token of friendship
through Blood Compact.’
 Magellan grabbed the opportunity to explain the
Christian law of love and also the Bible.
 April 14, 1521 – Father Valderama erected and
blessed the Holy Cross in the middle of their
settlement.
 The King and the Queen together with 800
subjects baptized.
 After the baptism, as a gift to the Queen,
Magellan gave her the statue of the Infant
Jesus.

12. Not all the chieftains
obeyed me because they
said that they are good
men as me.
Raha Humabon
Tell them that unless they
obey you, as their King, I
will killed them!
Rahah Zula
April 26
Here are two goats. I
could not give more since
Lapu Lapu refused to
obey the King of Spain.
Hmmmmm….

13.  The next morning, 3 o’ clock, Magellan with sixty men
arrived on Mactan shore.
 He did not strike as soon as he arrived and even
allowed ethe enemy to summon their allies.
 Under the bright sun, the fight did not last long.
Magellan’s side
Native’s side
Cannon
Balls!
Poisoned
arrows attack!!!
Burn the
houses!

14. A native attacked him with a bamboo spear
but Magellan killed him.
Another dashed on Magellan and cause
him to fell down.
By defeating Magellan, Lapu Lapu was
hailed as the first Filipino freedom fighter.

15.  After Magellan’s defeat, the Cebuanos lost heart and
repudiated their alliance, killing the remaining 20
Europeans and burning their ship, The Concepcion.
 The others continued to voyage to the Moluccas.
 The other two ships arrived in the Moluccas under
the command of the sub-officer, Juan Sebastian del
Cano.
Trinidad Victoria
Left in the direction of
Mexico but intercepted
and forced to return to
Portuguese.
Succeeded the epic
feat of
circumnavigating the
globe in one journey.

16.  Man was able to circumnavigate the
globe.
 European also learned that the greatest
oceans in the world are lying between
Asia and the New World.
The world is
really round!

17.  Juan Garcia Jofre de Loaysa
 Martin Iniguez de Carquizano
 Alvaro Saavedra de Ceron

18.  Ruy Lopez Villalobos set sail for the
Philippines from Navidad, Mexico on
November 1, 1542.
 He followed the route taken by Magellan
and reached Mindanao on February 2, 1543.
 He established a colony in Sarangani but
could not stay long because of insufficient
food supply.
 His fleet left the island and landed on
Tidore in the Moluccas, where they were
captured by the Portuguese.
 Villalobos is remembered for naming our
country “Islas Filipinas,” in honor of King
Charles’ son, Prince Philip, who later became
king of Spain.

19.  1553 – Philip II ascended the Spanish
throne.
 1559 – he ordered the viceroy of Mexico
Don Luis de Velasco to equip an armada
for the spiritual and the material
conquest of the Philippines.

20.  The preparations for the said fleet started
on September 24, 1559, and it was sail on
November 20, 1564.
 Father Andres de Urdaneta – chief pilot and
Superior of the Group
 There were four ships in this fleet.
 San Pedro(flagship)
 San Pablo
 San Juan de Letran
 San Lucas

21.  The Conquest of Cebu
 The Conversation of King Tupas
 The Conquest of Panay and Other
Islands
 Conquest and Occupation of Manila

22. Gold
Gospel
Glory