1519-1522: Magalhāes circumnavigation
 

Magalhāes expedition
Therborn identifies this as the first successful "circumnavigation of the world" (42)
 
I didn't recognize it by this name, but it is the Portuguese rendition of "Magellan"

> from Göran Therborn's World: A Beginner's Guide (2011)

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