Ferdinand Magellan was born in Portugal into an influential family. His parents died when he was 10 and he was sent to the queen's court. When he was 12, he became a page for the queen.

a 16th-century tribal chieftain in the Philippines known to have slain the famed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. Who is Lapu-Lapu, and why is he being celebrated by Filipino migrants in ...

The Magellan voyage's aim was to find a shorter route to the Moluccas, the source of spices that Europeans desired and fought each other for. But from the initial moments of the trip as organized ...