Cervantes's Don Quixote
A parody of chivalry becomes the first modern novel
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The first part of Miguel de Cervantes's novel about the knight of La Mancha appeared in Madrid; the second followed in 1615. A parody of chivalric romances, it is often called the first modern novel.
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Did you know
Cervantes and Shakespeare died in April 1616 on nearly the same calendar date — but Spain used the Gregorian calendar and England did not, so over a week really separates them.
While False Dmitry I ruled in Moscow (1605–1606), the first part of Don Quixote came out in Madrid.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1582 Yermak's conquest of Sibir — 23 years earlier
- 1598–1613 Time of Troubles — 7 years earlier
- 1612 Minin and Pozharsky liberate Moscow — 7 years later
- 1613 Election of Michael Romanov as Tsar — 8 years later
Africa
- 1591 Battle of Tondibi and fall of Songhai — 14 years earlier
- 1624–1663 Nzinga becomes Queen of Ndongo — 19 years later
Asia
- 1592–1598 Imjin War — 13 years earlier
- 1600 Battle of Sekigahara — 5 years earlier
Americas
- 1600 Eruption of Huaynaputina — 5 years earlier
- c. 1605–1694 Quilombo of Palmares — same year
- 1607 Founding of Jamestown — 2 years later
- 1609 Jesuit reductions among the Guaraní — 4 years later
Alive at the time
- Akbar the Great (aged 63)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (aged 62)
- Miguel de Cervantes (aged 58)
- William Shakespeare (aged 41)
- Galileo Galilei (aged 41)
- René Descartes (aged 9)
- Matteo Ricci (aged 53)
- Rudolf II (aged 53)
- Henry IV (aged 52)
- James I (aged 39)