Miguel de Cervantes | Timeline

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (29 September 1547 – 22 April 1616), often simply called Cervantes, was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright.
His major work, Don Quixote, considered to be the first modern European novel, is a classic of Western literature, and is regarded amongst the best works of fiction ever written. His influence on the Spanish language has been so great that the language is often called la lengua de Cervantes ("the language of Cervantes"). He was dubbed El Príncipe de los Ingenios ("The Prince of Wits"). (Wikipedia) 

September 29, 1547 - Alcalá de Henares - Spain - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra is born
January(?) 1(?), 1551 - Valladolid - Cervantes Family moves to Valladolid
January(?) 1(?), 1553 - Córdoba - Cervantes Family moves to Córdoba
January(?) 1(?), 1556 - Córdoba - Collects the inheritance of his grandfather
January(?) 1(?), 1564 - Seville - Cervantes Family moves to Seville
January(?) 1(?), 1566 - Madrid - Cervantes Family moves to Madrid =(START)
January(?) 1(?), 1567 - Madrid - First poems published
December(?) 1(?), 1569 - Madrid - Cervantes flees Madrid to avoid being arrested and having his hand cut off, after a duel with Antonio de Sigura
January(?) 1(?), 1570 - Rome - Arrives in Rome and joins the household of the prelate Giulio Acquaviva
September 16, 1571 - Naples - Joins the army in Naples with his brother Rodrigo and departs to Corfu (in Greece) with Andrea Doria
September 26, 1571 - Corfu - Arrival at Corfu
October 7, 1571 - Gulf of Patras, Greece - Battle of Lepanto. Cervantes is wounded

Battle of Lepanto

October 9, 1571 - Petalà inlets - The armada takes shelter from bad weather
October 15, 1571 - Petalà inlets - The weather improves. The armada sails for Messina
November 1, 1571 - Messina - Arrival in Messina. Cervantes spends six months recovering from the wounds taken in the battle of Lepanto
July 7, 1572 - Messina - Departs to Palermo with Don Juan de Áustria
July 15, 1572 - Palermo - A letter from the King arrives, ordering Cervantes to go to Corfu
August 2, 1572 - Crotone - On his way to Corfu
August 5, 1572 - Otranto, Southeast of Lecce - On his way to Corfu
August 9, 1572 - Corfu - Arrival at Corfu
September 7, 1572 - Corfu - Departs to Igomenitsa
September 10, 1572 - Igomenitsa - The turkish fleet is detected
September 12, 1572 - Kefallonia, mouth of the Gulf of Patras
September 15, 1572 - Strofades Islands (44km S-SE Zakynthos)
September 18, 1572 - Methoni
September 26, 1572 - Pylos, Navarino Bay
October 2, 1572 - Pylos, Navarino Bay - Navarino is taken
October 7, 1572 - Pylos, Navarino Bay - Departs to Methoni
October 9, 1572 - Island of Zante
October 15, 1572 - Kefallonia, Mouth of the Gulf of Patras
October 18, 1572 - Igomenitsa
October 20, 1572 - Corfu - Back at Corfu
October 22, 1572 - Corfu - Departs to Messina
October 26, 1572 - Messina - Arrival at Messina
October 11, 1573 - Tunis, Tunisia - Tunis is retaken by the Spanish
October 15, 1573 - Bizerte, Tunisia - The Spanish loose the battle to the turks
November 1, 1573 - Sardinia - Winter spent in Sardinia
March 1, 1574 - Naples - Arrival in Naples. Cervantes stays for two years (speculative date)
September 20, 1575 - Naples - Departs to Spain
September 26, 1575 - Palamós, Catalonia - Cervantes is captured by barbary corsairs
October(?) 15(?), 1575 - Algiers, Algeria - Cervantes is arrested in Argel
January(?) 1(?), 1576 - Algiers - First escape attempt
January(?) 1(?), 1577 - Algiers - second escape attempt. Ransom of his brother Rodrigo
January(?) 1(?), 1578 - third escape attempt
January(?) 1(?), 1579 - Fourth escape attempt
September 19, 1580 - Algiers - Cervantes is ransomed. Departs to Valencia
October 24, 1580 - Denia - Arrival in Spain, Valencia region
November(?) 1(?), 1580 - Valencia - Transfer
December(?) 1(?), 1580 - Madrid - Return to his Family in Madrid
April(?) 16(?), 1581 - Tomar, Portugal - Meeting with King Felipe II's Court. Cervantes receives a secret mission
May(?) 24(?), 1581 - Lisbon, Portugal - Cervantes departs to Orán
June(?) 1(?), 1581 - Orán, Algeria - Secret mission in Orán
July(?) 1(?), 1581 - Lisbon - return to Lisbon
December 28, 1581 - Madrid - Return to Madrid
February 17, 1582 - Madrid - Cervantes unsucessfully requests service in the Indies
January(?) 1(?), 1584 - Madrid - Affair with Ana Franca de Rojas, resulting in the birth of a daughter - Isabel de Cervantes
December 12, 1584 - Esquivias (between Madrid and Toledo) - Cervantes marries Catalina de Salazar
January(?) 1(?), 1585 - Publication of "La Galatea"
January(?) 1(?), 1587 - Madrid, Toledo, La Mancha, Andalucia - Cervantes travels to Andalucia as a Commissioner of provisions for the "Spanish Armada". During the years as commissioner, he travels several times between Madrid and Andalucia, passing through Toledo and La Mancha (today, Ciudad Real).
January 10, 1588 - Seville - Cervantes settles in Seville
May 21, 1590 - Seville - Again, Cervantes asks the King for a post in the Indies, but is denied
September 1, 1597 - Seville - Cervantes is arrested in the Royal Jail
December 1, 1597 - Seville - Cervantes is released from the Royal Jail
January(?) 1(?), 1604 - Valladolid - Cervantes settles in Valladolid
January 16, 1604 - Valladolid - Publishes the first volume of "Don Quixote"
January(?) 1(?), 1607 - Madrid - Returns to Madrid
April 22, 1616 - Madrid - Miguel de Cervantes dies, aged 68 =(END)