The first round-the-world tour: the expedition of Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano Featured General 05/01/201805/01/20180 The expedition organized and led by the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan was the first circumnavigation of the World of history. But he could not complete it because he died in a confrontation with the natives in the Philippines Islands. Juan Sebastian Elcano, who captained the expedition from Tidore to Spain,