♀ Ursula Blacknell

1589 - 1684

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

1589

1589 • The monks of the Pechenga Monastery, the northernmost in the world, are massacred by Swedes led by a Finnish peasant chief in the course of the Russo-Swedish War.

1612


Age: 23y
1612 Thomas Shelton's English translation of the first half of Don Quixote is published. It is the first translation of the Spanish novel into any language.

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 Japanese poet Saikaku composes 23,500 verses in 24 hours at the Sumiyoshi Shrine at Osaka; the scribes cannot keep pace with his dictation and just count the verses.

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