Who was the first person to sail around the Earth?

The first expedition that went around the world was that of the Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan. He had set out to find a new route to Southeast Asia. He had come to know that there was a passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through the continent of South America. In 1519, he set sail towards the west with five ships, around 270 men, and a huge amount of supplies. At the coast of South America, they entered the broad mouth of a river, assuming that this was the passage they had heard of. In October 1520, they finally discovered the sought-after sea route between the island Tierradel Fuego and the southern tip of South America; this route later came to be known as the Magellan Route. When the expedition reached the Indonesian islands, Megellan started taking possession of them one by one by defeating the Spanish kings. When a small island protested against the rule of Spain, there was a fierce battle in which Magellan was killed. The Spaniard Juan Sebastian Del Cano now became the captian of the remaining ships. After a voyage lasting for 3 years, he managed to return to Spain with 17 surviving sailors. They were thus hailed as the first people to sail around the Earth in one go-and not in stages.