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A surprising discovery – A Philippines Timeline Foreword The real POD of this timeline is on the late 13th century but the timeline really starts and the focus starts on the 16th century, I don’t really normally do Early Modern or Renassiance POD’s I do most of the time are Medieval POD’s this has a Medieval POD but this timeline looks like a Renassiance TL with two Isoted countries due to my Limiting of Butterflies.
A Surprising Discovery Heading northwest, the crew reached the equator on 13 February 1521. On 6 March they reached the Marianas and Guam. Magellan called Guam the "Island of Sails" because they saw a lot of sailboats. They renamed it to "Ladrones Island" (Island of Thieves) because many of Trinidad's small boats were stolen there. On 17 March Magellan reached the island of Homonhon in the Philippines, with 150 crew left. Members of his expedition became the first Spaniards to reach the Philippine archipelago, but they were not the first Europeans. Magellan was able to communicate with the native tribes because his Malay interpreter, Enrique, could understand their languages. Enrique was indentured by Magellan in 1511 right after the colonization of Malacca and was at his side during the battles in Africa, during Magellan's disgrace at the King's court in Portugal and during Magellan's successful raising of a fleet. They traded gifts with Rajah Siaiu of Mazaua who guided them to Cebu on 7 April. Rajah Humabon of Cebu was friendly towards Magellan and the Spaniards; both he and his queen Hara Amihan were baptized as Christians. Afterward, Rajah Humabon and his ally Datu Zula convinced Magellan to kill their enemy, Datu Lapu-Lapu, on Mactan. Magellan had wished to convert Lapu-Lapu to Christianity, as he had Humabon, a proposal of which Lapu-Lapu was dismissive. On the morning of 27 April 1521, Magellan sailed to Mactan with a small attack force. During the resulting battle against Lapu-Lapu's troops, Magellan was hit by a bamboo spear and later surrounded and finished off with other weapons. Magellan's voyage led to Limasawa, Cebu, Mactan, Palawan, Brunei, Celebes and finally to the Spice Islands. Magellan provided in his will that Enrique, his interpreter, was to be freed upon his death. However, after the Battle of Mactan, the remaining ships' masters refused to free Enrique. Enrique escaped his indenture on 1 May with the aid of Rajah Humabon, amid the deaths of almost 30 crewmen. Pigafetta had been jotting down words in both Butuanon and Cebuano languages – which he started at Mazaua on Friday, 29 March and grew to a total of 145 words – and was apparently able to continue communications during the rest of the voyage. "Nothing of Magellan's body survived, that afternoon the grieving rajah-king, hoping to recover his remains, offered Mactan's victorious chief a handsome ransom of copper and iron for them but Datu Lapulapu refused. He intended to keep the body as a war trophy. The Sultan of Sulu, the Sultan of Brunei and the King of Selurong heard the story of Lapu Lapu and his people defeating the strange people trying to convert them to a strange religion and off course they were shocked hearing such strange people are coming near their islands, the King of Selurong and the Sultan of Sulu sent some emissaries to Lapu Lapu in the Island of Mactan in order to describe the bodies of the defeated strange people. They were described as fair skinned and some even have colored hair, those people looked weird and different as they said and they don’t know what these strange people might bring in their lands, they remember that the same strange people are also holding Melaka in the Malayan Peninsula, while in the mean time the Sultan of Brunei is doing nothing because the Sultan of Brunei finds that their empire is very invincible and no one can touch them not even the foreigners that are coming to their part of the world, they did not know that the new foreigners had already conquered a larger land, larger than their own empire. The Bruneians were very arrogant and annoying as well to the nearby polities and Brunei is occupying Southern Selurong and Palawan aside from basically ruliing Borneo. The survivors of the Magellan Expedition sailed back to Spain and told what happened to Magellan to Emperor Charles V, King of Spain.