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Ferdinand Magellan was born in 1480 in Portugal.
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In 1490 Ferdinand became a page for the queen.
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Ferdinand's parents die. Ferdinand became an orphan when he was 10 years old in 1490
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In 1505, when Ferdinand Magellan was in his mid-20s, he joined a Portuguese fleet that was sailing to East Africa.
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By 1509, he found himself at the Battle of Diu, in which the Portuguese destroyed Egyptian ships in the Arabian Sea.
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Ferdinand makes a second voyage. Ferdinand went on another expedition to Melaka. The Portugese conquered Melaka in 1511.
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While serving in Morocco, in 1513, Magellan was wounded, and walked the remainder of his life with a limp.
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In 1517, Magellan moved to Seville, Spain, to offer his skills to the Spanish court.
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Magellan is married to María Caldera Beatriz Barbosa in 1517
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On September 20, 1519, he set out with a fleet of five fully supplied ships, but hardly enough to sail the distances he proposed.
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On October 21st, 1520 Magellan found the passage he had been searching for. It separates Tierra del Fuego from the southern tip of South America.
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In November of 1520 the fleet reached the Pacific Ocean, making them the first Europeans to ever see it. Magellan called it the Mar Pacifico.
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On April 27th, 1521, Ferdinand Magellan died in Cebu in the Philippines as a result of the poison arrow.
