First circumnavigation

According to Official Guinness Records,

The first ever circumnavigation of the world was accomplished on 8 September 1522, when the Spanish vessel Vittoria, under the command of the Spanish navigator Juan Sebastián de Elcano, reached Seville in Spain. The ship had set out from Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Andalucía, Spain, on 20 September 1519, along with four others as part of an expedition led by the Portugese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. They rounded Cape Horn, crossed the Pacific via the Philippines, and returned to Europe after sailing around the Cape of Good Hope. Vittoria was the only ship to survive the voyage, and of the 239 Europeans who set out, only 17 returned. Magellan himself had been killed in a squabble in the Philippines in March 1521.

For a complete list of 1522 records, please visit 1522 Guinness Records in Spain.

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