The five ships sail
1519 · Event
The Armada de Molucca — five ships, some 270 men of a dozen nations — clears Sanlúcar de Barrameda for the bottom of the world. Of the five, one will be wrecked, one will desert, one will be burned, one abandoned; of the men, fewer than one in ten will come home.
On these timelines: Magellan's Voyage, Age of Exploration, Spain, Master
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