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1615
| 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. |
1645
Age: 30y
| 1645 • English Civil War: Re-fortification of Bourne Castle in Lincolnshire against a threatened Royalist attack begins. |
1646
Feb 3
Age: 31y
| 1646 • The English Parliament sets the Newcastle Propositions for King Charles I. |
1646
Feb 3
Age: 31y
| 1646 • Roger Scott is tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church. |
1681
Jan 15
Age: 66y
| 1681 • France annexes the city of Strasbourg (German: Strassburg), previously a free imperial city of the Holy Roman Empire. |