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Spanish Expeditions to the Philippines. The Magellan Expedition. Ferdinand Magellan , a Portuguese in the service of the Spanish crown, was looking for a westward route to the to the Spice Islands of Indonesia.

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On March 16, , Magellan's expedition landed on Homonhon island in the Philippines. He was the first European to reach the islands. Out of the five ships and more than men who left on the Magellan expedition in , only one ship the Victoria and 18 men returned to Seville, Spain on September 6, Nevertheless, the said expedition was considered historic because it marked the first circumnavigation of the globe and proved that the world was round.

Juan Sebastian de Elcano , the master of ship "Concepcion" took over the command of the expedition after the death of Magellan and captained the ship "Victoria" back to Spain. He and his men earned the distinction of being the first to circumnavigate the world in one full journey. After Magellan's death in Cebu, it took 16 more months for Elcano to return to Spain.

The Magellan expedition started off through the westward route and returning to Spain by going east; Magellan and Elcano's entire voyage took almost three years to complete. Five subsequent expeditions were then sent to the Islands. Only the last two actually reached the Philippines; and only Legazpi succeeded in colonizing the Islands. He followed the route taken by Magellan and reached Mindanao on February 2, He established a colony in Sarangani but could not stay long because of insufficient food supply.