Don Quixote Published
January 1605
In Madrid, a former tax collector and amputee of Lepanto named Miguel de Cervantes published a long comic novel about an aging hidalgo driven mad by chivalric romances. Don Quixote de la Mancha, tilting at windmills with his earthy squire Sancho, invented the modern novel almost by accident and gave the world its most enduring parable of idealism colliding with reality.
In context
Also in 1605 (5 other events on record)
- Akbar the Great Dies · South Asia · Politics
- Gunpowder Plot Foiled · Europe · Politics
- Jahangir Crowned Mughal Emperor · South Asia · Politics
- Macbeth Conceived for James I · Europe · Culture
- True Law of Free Monarchies Reprinted · Europe · Politics
Before and after in Europe
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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