20 September — 1519 —
A roundabout route. Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition sailed from Sanlúcar de Barrameda. One ship would return in 1522 under Juan Sebastián Elcano, completing the first circumnavigation of the globe.
To finding a new route. It could hardly have been more roundabout.
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