Lepanto
October 7, 1571
In the Gulf of Patras, a Holy League fleet under Don Juan of Austria destroyed the Ottoman navy in the largest galley battle in history. Cervantes, wounded in the chest and left hand, would later call it the greatest occasion the past or present has seen. Ottoman naval myth, for the first time, cracked.
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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