📅 On This Day: September 6

September 6, 1522: First voyage around the world ends. On 6 September 1522, the ship Victoria sailed back into the port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain. It had left about three years earlier with Magellan's fleet and, led by Captain Elcano, became the first ship to go all the way around the world.

📅 First voyage around the world ends (1522)

Only 18 of the roughly 260 sailors who set out returned, so hard was the voyage.

Where: Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain

Nearby on the globe: Plaza de España, Seville → 🌍 Open the 3D globe

✨ More events on this day

1921 💡 Inventor Norman Joseph Woodland was born in 1921; he co-invented the barcode, an idea he first sketched by drawing lines in beach sand.
1962 🎨 Archaeologist Peter Marsden found the first of the Blackfriars Ships in London's River Thames in 1962, a boat from Roman times about 1,800 years old.
2013 🚀 NASA launched the LADEE probe in 2013 to study the Moon's extremely thin atmosphere and the dust floating above its surface.

🧠 Question of the day

Which captain brought the Victoria home?

Captain Cook
Columbus
Elcano

Show the answer

Answer: Elcano

🎂 Landmarks that opened on September 6

Raffles City Chongqingopened 2019

Questions

What happened on September 6?

September 6, 1522: First voyage around the world ends. It happened in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain.

Which landmarks opened on September 6?

Raffles City Chongqing (opened 2019).

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Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_(ship)