While in the service of Spain, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan led the first European voyage of discovery to ...

Francis Drake's successful voyage included British sailors' arrival in California and the plundering of a glut of Spanish riches that sustained Elizabeth I's empire Eli Wizevich Page 1 of 1 ...

We meet our presenters, Jenny and Wayne, before setting our chronometers to travel to the year 1492 to meet Christopher Columbus. You must enable JavaScript to play ...

Il ne s'envisage le plus souvent que comme un voyage à des latitudes relativement faibles d'ouest en est ou inversément. Le premier homme à avoir réalisé un tour du monde serait Enrique de Malacca, ...

INFOGRAPHIE - Il y a cinq siècles, le Portugais Fernand de Magellan prenait le départ du premier tour du monde de l’histoire. Retour sur ce point d’orgue des «grandes découvertes» entrepr ...

Ferdinand Magellan was born in Portugal into an influential ... The Portuguese court was not interested in Magellan's plan for a voyage to the Spice Islands via the Americas.