(now Kochi), further south, where he was warmly received and permitted to trade. After establishing a port at Cannanore (now Kannur) Cabral returned on January , , with six shiploads of spices to Portugal. On his way, however, two ships failed, and Cabral finally reached Portugal with four ships on June , . Voyage of Magellan Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese sailor got Spanish support to explore the world.
With five ships he sailed out of Seville westward in . He found a strait at the tip of South America and named it the Strait of Magellan. From there the crew reached the Great South Sea. As the sea remained calm, he called it Pacific Ocean ( Pacifico means peaceful in Spanish).
In the voyage, Magellan lost two of his ships and many of the crew due to disease. Magellan himself was killed in the Philippie Isles. Finally, a single ship, the Vittoria (or Vasco da Gama Pedro Cabral Magellan Modern World: The Age of Reason INDIA ASIA Goa Mombassa Mozambique Lisbon Bristol Bahama Islands Newfoundland Palos Seville SPAIN PORTUGAL ENGLAND Treaty of Tordesillas ( ) Papal Bull ( ) Magellan’s strait Cape Verde Islands Spain Kozhikode Philippines Islands AFRICA EUROPE SOUTH AMERICA NORTH AMERICA CANADA GREENLAND MAXICO PACIFIC OCEAN PACIFIC OCEAN ATLANTIC OCEAN ARCTIC OCEAN INDIAN OCEAN Portugal