In Events April 5 - In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe. October 11 - Adriaen Block and a group of Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the area he explored and named New Netherland. The French Estates-General meets for the last time before... 1614, Alonso Fernándo de Avellaneda, an author's probable pseudonym, published a fake sequel to Statues of Don Quixote (left) and Sancho Panza (right) Don Quixote de la Mancha ( pronounced /) is a novel by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. It is one of the earliest novels in a modern European language and many people consider it the finest book in the Spanish language. The... Don Quixote titled, Second Book of the Ingenious Knight Don Quixote of La Mancha.