Renaissance · Europe · Exploration

1522

Elcano Completes the Circumnavigation

September 6, 1522

Juan Sebastian Elcano brought the battered Victoria into Sanlucar de Barrameda carrying eighteen survivors, a cargo of cloves, and a logbook showing they had lost a day to the westward rotation of the Earth. The first circumnavigation of the globe had taken three years and cost over two hundred lives.

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Before and after in Europe

Before: August 29, 1521: Belgrade Falls to Suleiman
After: 1523: Zwingli Reforms Zurich

Before and after in Exploration

Before: April 27, 1521: Magellan Killed on Mactan
After: 1524: Verrazzano Charts the North American Coast

Era

Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.