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Cervantes was born in Alcalá de Henares in Madrid, Spain as Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra to Rodrigo de Cervantes and Leonor de Cortinas as their second son and fourth child of seven.
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Cervantes made his debut with a sonnet titled "Serenisima reina en quien se halla" for the birth of Princess Catalina Micaela, the second daughter of Philip II and Elizabeth of Valois.
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Cervantes studies with Juan López de Hoyos. López de Hoyos makes Cervantes write four poems to be included in the Relación oficial de las exequias about the death of Elizabeth of Valois.
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Miguel moved to Rome as a valet because back home there was an order to arrest a student named Miguel de Cervantes for dueling and wounding the master builder Antonio de Sigura.
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Miguel de Cervantes joined the army and was part of it for ten years although five of them he was captured and held by Algerian pirates.
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Cervantes joins the army in 1570 and gets malaria but continues to fight from the ship in 1571. He gets shot three times. Twice in the chest and once in the arm causing his left hand to become useless.
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After four attempts of escape Cervantes was finally let free after five years.
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Miguel de Cervantes is captured by Algerian pirates.
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Miguel de Cervantes gets married to Ana Franca de Rojas who will eventually give him his daughter Isabel de Saavedra.
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Miguel de Cervantes signed a contract with Gaspar de Porres to work on two lost plays. "El trato de Constantinopla" and "El confusa".
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Don Quixote part I was published.
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Don Quixote part I was published in English.
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Don Quixote part II was published.
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Miguel de Cervantes died.
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Don Quixote part II was published in English.
