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Juan De Cartagena
Juan de Cartagena (died c. 1520) was a Spanish accountant and captain of one of the five ships led by Ferdinand Magellan in his expedition of the first circumnavigation of the earth. Cartagena frequently argued with Magellan during the voyage and questioned his authority. Following a Easter mutiny, failed mutiny attempt of which Cartagena was the principal organizer, Magellan marooning, marooned Cartagena on a remote island in Patagonia in 1520, before continuing on to the Strait of Magellan. Early life Cartagena was a native of Burgos, the historic capital of Old Castile. Cartagena was a confidante and "nephew" of archbishop Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca, the influential head of the Casa de Contratación which regulated trade with Spain’s American colonies. Historians have interpreted "nephew" as a euphemism indicating that Cartagena was Fonseca's illegitimate son. His age at the time of Magellan's expedition is unknown, but he was married and had a daughter, Doña Catalina. Magell ...
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Castile And León
Castile and León ( es, Castilla y León ; ast-leo, Castiella y Llión ; gl, Castela e León ) is an autonomous community in northwestern Spain. It was created in 1983, eight years after the end of the Francoist regime, by the merging of the provinces of the historic region of León: León, Zamora and Salamanca with those of Castilla La Vieja ( Old Castile): Ávila, Burgos, Palencia, Segovia, Soria and Valladolid. The provinces of Santander and Logroño, which until then had formed part of Castile, opted out of this merger and formed the new Autonomous Communities of Cantabria and La Rioja respectively. Castile and León is the largest autonomous community in Spain in terms of area, covering 94,222 km2. It is however sparsely populated, with a population density below 30/km2. While a capital has not been explicitly declared, the seats of the executive and legislative powers are set in Valladolid by law and for all purposes that city (also the most populated m ...
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Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V, french: Charles Quint, it, Carlo V, nl, Karel V, ca, Carles V, la, Carolus V (24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain ( Castile and Aragon) from 1516 to 1556, and Lord of the Netherlands as titular Duke of Burgundy from 1506 to 1555. He was heir to and then head of the rising House of Habsburg during the first half of the 16th century, his dominions in Europe included the Holy Roman Empire, extending from Germany to northern Italy with direct rule over the Austrian hereditary lands and the Burgundian Low Countries, and Spain with its southern Italian possessions of Naples, Sicily, and Sardinia. He oversaw both the continuation of the long-lasting Spanish colonization of the Americas and the short-lived German colonization of the Americas. The personal union of the European and American territories of Charles V was the first collection of realms labelled " the empire on wh ...
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1520 Deaths
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Mutineers Against Magellan
Mutiny is a revolt among a group of people (typically of a military, of a crew or of a crew of pirates) to oppose, change, or overthrow an organization to which they were previously loyal. The term is commonly used for a rebellion among members of the military against an internal force, but it can also sometimes mean any type of rebellion against any force. Mutiny does not necessarily need to refer to a military force and can describe a political, economic, or power structure in which there is a change of power. During the Age of Discovery, mutiny particularly meant open rebellion against a ship's captain. This occurred, for example, during Ferdinand Magellan's journeys around the world, resulting in the killing of one mutineer, the execution of another, and the marooning of others; on Henry Hudson's ''Discovery'', resulting in Hudson and others being set adrift in a boat; and the notorious mutiny on the ''Bounty''. Penalty Those convicted of mutiny often faced capital punis ...
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Puerto San Julián
Puerto San Julián, also known historically as Port St. Julian, is a natural harbour in Patagonia in the Santa Cruz Province of Argentina located at . In the days of sailing ships it formed a stopping point, south of Puerto Deseado (''Port Desire''). Nowadays Puerto San Julián is also the name of a small town (population 6,143 as per the ) located on the harbour. History It was given its name by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan who arrived there on 31 March 1520 and overwintered in the harbour. They met the native people who were described by Antonio Pigafetta as giants, and called them ''Patagonians''. Although Pigafetta's account does not describe how this name came about, subsequent popular interpretations gave credence to a derivation meaning 'land of the big feet'. However, this etymology is questionable. The term is most likely derived from an actual character name, "''Patagón''", a savage creature confronted by Primaleón of Greece, the hero in the Spanish ch ...
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Trinidad (ship)
''Trinidad'' was the flagship of Ferdinand Magellan's voyage of circumnavigation. Unlike Elcano's ''Victoria'', which returned to Spain sailing across the Indian Ocean, ''Trinidad'' tried and failed to sail east across the Pacific to New Spain or modern-day Mexico. ''Trinidad'' was a '' nao'' (ship) of 100 tons (or 110 tons, Morrison has both) with square sails on the fore and main masts and a lateen mizzen. Its original crew was 61. After Magellan's death and the burning of the '' Concepcion'', ''Victoria'' and ''Trinidad'' (the ''San Antonio'' and the ''Santiago'' being lost earlier) reached Tidore on 8 November 1521. In mid-December both ships attempted to depart loaded with cloves, but ''Trinidad'' almost immediately began to leak badly. Inspection showed that the problem was serious. It was agreed that ''Victoria'' would leave for Spain and ''Trinidad'' would remain for repairs. On 6 April 1522, ''Trinidad'' left Tidore loaded with 50 tons of cloves. Her commander was G ...
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Juan Sebastián Elcano
Juan Sebastián Elcano (Elkano in modern Basque; sometimes given as ''del Cano''; 1486/1487Some sources state that he was born in 1476. Most of this sources try to make a point about him participating on a military campaign at the Mediterranean when we was a child. According to his own answer of the age he had when he boarded the expedition, he was born 10 years later, around 1486 or 1487. – 4 August 1526) was a Spanish navigator, ship-owner and explorer of Basque origin from Getaria, part of the Crown of Castile when he was born, best known for having completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth in the ship '' Victoria'' on the Magellan expedition to the Spice Islands. He received recognition for his achievement by Charles I of Spain with a coat of arms bearing a globe and the Latin motto ''Primus circumdedisti me'' (You were the first to circumnavigate me). Despite his achievements, information on Elcano is scarce and he is the subject of great historiographical cont ...
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Gaspar De Quesada
Gaspar de Quesada (died April 7, 1520) was a Spanish explorer who participated in Magellan's circumnavigation as captain of the '' Concepción'', one of the expedition's five ships. Approximately six months in to the expedition, Quesada, with two other Spanish captains, attempted to overthrow Magellan in the Easter mutiny at the South American port of St. Julian. The mutiny failed and Magellan had Quesada executed. Magellan expedition Little is known of Quesada's life before the Magellan expedition. A letter to Manuel I of Portugal from consul Sebastião Alvares described Quesada as "a servant of the Archbishop f Seville. Charles I of Spain wrote that he had been "informed about his reputation and abilities". Quesada was appointed as captain by the archbishop Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca (leader of the ''Casa de Contratación''), along with the expedition's other two Spanish captains, Juan de Cartagena and Luis Mendoza. These three captains despised Magellan, the expedition's P ...
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Concepción (ship)
Concepción (Spanish for ''conception'') refers to the Immaculate Conception of Mary, mother of Jesus, according to Roman Catholic Church doctrine. Concepción or Concepcion may also refer to: Geography Argentina * Concepción, Catamarca, a village *Concepción, Corrientes, a town * Concepción, Tucumán, a city * Concepción de Buena Esperanza, dead city in Chaco province * Concepción de la Sierra, Misiones Province, a village *Concepción del Bermejo, Chaco, a village *Concepción del Uruguay, Entre Ríos, a city *Concepción Department, Argentina, Corrientes Bolivia * Concepción, Santa Cruz, a town * Concepción Lake, Chiqui, a laketos Province Chile *Bay of Concepción *Concepción, Chile *Concepción Province, Chile *Greater Concepción *Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Concepción Colombia * Concepción, Antioquia *Concepción, Santander Costa Rica * Concepción District, Alajuelita Guatemala * Concepción, Sololá *Concepción Chiquirichapa *Concepción Huista *Concepci� ...
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Victoria (ship)
''Victoria'' (or Nao ''Victoria'') was a carrack and the first ship to successfully circumnavigate the world. ''Victoria'' was part of the Spanish expedition to the Moluccas commanded by the explorer Ferdinand Magellan until his death in the Philippines in 1521. The expedition began on 10 August 1519 with five ships. However, only two reached their goal in the Moluccas. Thereafter, ''Victoria'' was the only ship to complete the return voyage, under Juan Sebastián de Elcano's command, crossing uncharted waters of the Indian Ocean to sail around the world. She returned to Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain on 6 September 1522. The ship was built at a shipyard in Ondarroa, with the Basques being reputed shipbuilders at the time, and along with the four other ships, she was given to Magellan by King Charles I of Spain (The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V). ''Victoria'' was named after the church of Santa Maria de la Victoria de Triana (Sevilla), where Magellan took an oath of allegianc ...
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Tenerife
Tenerife (; ; formerly spelled ''Teneriffe'') is the largest and most populous island of the Canary Islands. It is home to 43% of the total population of the Archipelago, archipelago. With a land area of and a population of 978,100 inhabitants as of January 2022, it is also the most populous island of Spain and of Macaronesia. Approximately five million tourists visit Tenerife each year; it is the most visited island in the archipelago. It is one of the most important tourist destinations in Spain and the world, hosting one of the world's largest carnivals, the Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The capital of the island, , is also the seat of the island council (). That city and are the co-capitals of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands. The two cities are both home to governmental institutions, such as the offices of the presidency and the ministries. This has been the arrangement since 1927, when the Crown ordered it. (After the 1833 territorial division of Sp ...
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Maravedí
The ''maravedí'' () or ''maravedi'' (), (from ''Almoravid dinar''), was the name of various Iberian coins of gold and then silver between the 11th and 14th centuries and the name of different Iberian accounting units between the 11th and 19th centuries. Etymology The word ''maravedí'' comes from ''marabet'' or ''marabotin'', a variety of the gold ''dinar'' struck in Iberia by, and named after, the Moorish Almoravids (Arabic المرابطون al-Murābitũn, sing. مرابط Murābit). The Spanish word ''maravedí'' is unusual in having three documented plural forms: ''maravedís'', ''maravedíes'' and ''maravedises''. The first one is the most straightforward, the second is a variant plural formation found commonly in words ending with a stressed -í, whereas the third is the most unusual and the least recommended ( Real Academia Española's '' Diccionario panhispánico de dudas'' labels it "vulgar in appearance"). History The gold dinar was first struck in Iberia under Abd- ...
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