♀ Ursula Blacknell

1589 - 1684

Ursula Blacknell
Spouse
John Hygebed
John Hygebed
1585 - 1647
Children
Edward Higby
Edward Higby
1615 - 1699

1589

1589 • King James VI of Scotland, the future James I of England, contracts a proxy marriage with the 14-year-old Anne of Denmark at Kronborg. The formal ceremony takes place on November 23 at the Old Bishop's Palace in Oslo.

1615


Age: 26y
1615 • The second volume of Miguel Cervantes' Don Quixote ("El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha") is published, and is as successful as the first. Don Quixote eventually becomes the only truly famous work its author ever wrote.

1684


Age: 95y
1684 John Bunyan writes The Pilgrim's Progress, Part 2, in England.

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