* Summer – War of the League of Cambrai: Ferdinand II of Aragon sends Don Fadrique de Toledo to complete the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre.

At the time of its composition, Donizetti had just been appointed music director and composer for the imperial court of Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria, and Don Pasquale was the 64th of an eventual 66 operas he composed.

By that time, marriage arrangements for several of Maria Antonia's sisters had begun: the Archduchess Maria Josepha was betrothed to King Ferdinand of Naples, and one of the remaining eligible archduchesses was tentatively set to marry Don Ferdinand of Parma.

This successor state would invite Ferdinand VII to rule as emperor or, in default, his brother Don Carlos.

Ferdinand I ( June 2, 1423 – January 25, 1494 ), also called Don Ferrante, was the King of Naples from 1458 to 1494.

The Battle of Arras, fought on August 25, 1654, was a victory of a French army under Turenne against a Spanish army commanded by Don Ferdinand de Salis and Condé.

In order to achieve this goal and assisted by his Admiral Don Bernat de Sarrià, Baron of Polop, he formed an alliance with the enemies of the adolescent king of Castile, Ferdinand IV.

Don Carlos, the late king's brother, claimed the crown by virtue of the Salic Law of the House of Bourbon which Ferdinand had renounced before the birth of his daughter.

Some supporters of Don Carlos went so far as to claim that Ferdinand had actually bequeathed the crown to his brother but that Maria Christina had suppressed that fact.

* Don McHenry as Dr. Ferdinand Lappe

When the Pope refused, Ferdinand fabricated a false bull and sent his general Don Fadrique de Toledo to invade Navarre in 1512, part of the second phase of the War of the League of Cambrai.

* Ferdinand Columbus ( c. 1539 ) Historia del Almirante Don Cristobal Colon, en la cual se da particular y verdadera relacion de su vida y de sus hechos, y del descubrimiento de las Indias Occidentales, llamadas Nuevo-Mundo ( 1892 Madrid edition, 5 volumes )

Don Judah Abravanel was treasurer and tax-collector under Sancho IV ( 1284 – 95 ) and Ferdinand IV ( 1295 – 1312 ).

On December 30, 1797, after a formal request by Don Salvatore Curso, on behalf of his parishioners, Grand Master Ferdinand Von Hompesch instituted the village as a city calling it after his name, " Città Ferdinand ".

On the death of Ferdinand, he returned to Spain, and espousing the cause of Maria Christina against Don Carlos was appointed ambassador to London in 1834, and to Paris in 1835.

One suitor, who is Florez ’ s friend, Don Ferdinand, resigns his suit, but Idalia ’ s vanity is piqued at the loss of an even a single adorer, and more from perverseness than from love she continues to correspond with him.

# " Pledging My Love " ( Don Robey, Ferdinand Washington ) ( recorded at Graceland October 29, 1976 ) 2: 50

Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand ( 1609 / 1610, Escorial near Madrid, Spain – 9 November 1641, Brussels ) ( also known as Don Fernando de Austria, Cardenal-Infante Fernando de España and as Ferdinand von Österreich ) was Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, Infante of Spain, Archduke of Austria, Archbishop of Toledo ( 1619 – 41 ), and military commander during the Thirty Years ' War.

It includes a list of grievances against the Spanish government stretching back to Ferdinand Magellan's arrival in 1521 and " confer ( s ) upon our famous Dictator Don Emilio Aguinaldo all the powers necessary to enable him to discharge the duties of Government, including the prerogatives of granting pardon and amnesty.

This gave Ferdinand, who was crowned King of Aragon in 1412, the title " Ferdinand of Antequera " ( Don Fernando de Antequera ), and the main street still carries his name: Calle Infante Don Fernando.

Maria Tallchief and Erik Bruhn, who danced the `` Nutcracker '' pas de deux, were also seen in the Petipa-Minkus pas de deux from `` Don Quixote '', another brilliant showpiece that displayed their technical prowess handsomely.

The first written reference is found in a book by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, who is most famous for writing Don Quixote.

He was half-brother to Don Pedro Luis de Borja ( 1460 – 88 ) and Girolama de Borja, children of unknown mothers.

(; ), fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha (), is a novel written by Miguel de Cervantes.

He dons an old suit of armour, renames himself " Don Quixote de la Mancha ," and names his skinny horse " Rocinante ".

Don Quixote de la Mancha and Sancho Panza, 1863, by Gustave Doré

Sources for Don Quixote include the Castillian novel Amadis de Gaula, which had enjoyed great popularity throughout the 16th century.

About September, however, a spurious Part Two, entitled Second Volume of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha: by the Licenciado ( doctorate ) Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda, of Tordesillas, was published in Tarragona by an unidentified Aragonese who was an admirer of Lope de Vega, rival of Cervantes.

The language of Don Quixote, although still containing archaisms, is far more understandable to modern Spanish readers than is, for instance, the completely medieval Spanish of the Poema de mio Cid, a kind of Spanish that is as different from Cervantes's language as Middle English is from Modern English.

Bronze statues of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, at the Plaza de España in Madrid

In July 1604, Cervantes sold the rights of El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha ( known as Don Quixote, Part I ) to the publisher-bookseller Francisco de Robles for an unknown sum.

* Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda – author of a spurious sequel to Don Quixote, which in turn is referenced in the actual sequel

* Amadis de Gaula – one of the chivalric novels found in the library of Don Quixote

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