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He was born the 29 of September of 1547 in Alcalá de Henares, Spain
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In 1569, in forced exile from Castile, Cervantes moved to Rome, where he worked as chamber assistant of a cardinal.
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By 1570, Cervantes had enlisted as a soldier in a regiment of the Spanish Navy Marines, Infantería de Marina, stationed in Naples, then a possession of the Spanish crown.
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October 7 in the Battle of Lepanto, in the Gulf of Patras.
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He was living in Valladolid, then briefly the capital (1601–1606), and finishing Don Quixote Part One,
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Cervantes died in Madrid on 22 April 1616 and was buried the next day, 23 April.
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