{"slug": "lord-byron", "label": "Lord Byron", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5679", "qid": "Q5679", "description": "English Romantic poet and lyricist (1788–1824)", "entries": 12, "years": 8, "span": [1788, 1824], "span_label": ["1788 CE", "1824 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 4}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "england", "label": "England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "house-of-lords", "label": "House of Lords", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "hellespont", "label": "Hellespont", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1788, "year_label": "1788 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "January 22", "text": "January 22 – George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (d. 1824)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357260814#Births", "title": "1788", "revid": 1357260814, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1810, "year_label": "1810 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 3", "text": "May 3 – Lord Byron swims across the Hellespont in Turkey.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357106545#April–June", "title": "1810", "revid": 1357106545, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1812, "year_label": "1812 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 27", "text": "February 27 – English poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the British House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against industrialism, in his home county of Nottinghamshire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364673712#January–March", "title": "1812", "revid": 1364673712, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1814, "year_label": "1814 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "February 1", "text": "February 1 – Lord Byron's semi-autobiographical tale in verse The Corsair is published by John Murray in London, and sells 10,000 copies on this day.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360305709#February", "title": "1814", "revid": 1360305709, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1814, "year_label": "1814 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 12", "text": "June 12 – The poem \"She Walks in Beauty\" is written by Lord Byron.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360305709#April–June", "title": "1814", "revid": 1360305709, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1815, "year_label": "1815 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "December 10", "text": "December 10 – Ada Lovelace, English computer pioneer, daughter of Lord Byron (d. 1852)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365587765#July–December", "title": "1815", "revid": 1365587765, "section": "Births › July–December"}}, {"year": 1815, "year_label": "1815 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "January 2", "text": "January 2 – Lord Byron marries Anna Isabella Milbanke in Seaham, county of Durham, England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365587765#January", "title": "1815", "revid": 1365587765, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1818, "year_label": "1818 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "July 3", "text": "July 3 – English poet Lord Byron, resident in Italy, begins work on his satirical epic Don Juan. Although he completes the first canto by September 19, he will die in 1824 before he can finish the poem, after completing 16 cantos and working on the 17th.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373165947#July–September", "title": "1818", "revid": 1373165947, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1822, "year_label": "1822 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 20", "text": "April 20 – Allegra Byron, illegitimate daughter of Lord Byron (b. 1817)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367154222#January–June", "title": "1822", "revid": 1367154222, "section": "Deaths › January–June"}}, {"year": 1822, "year_label": "1822 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 16", "text": "August 16 — The body of British poet Percy Bysse Shelley, who died on July 8 in the sinking of his boat Don Juan, is cremated at the beach, 10 days after his decomposed remains had washed ashore in Italy near Viareggio, in the presence of Lord Byron and Edward John Trelawny, who claims to have seized Shelley's heart from the flames.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367154222#July–September", "title": "1822", "revid": 1367154222, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1824, "year_label": "1824 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 19", "text": "April 19 – George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (b. 1788)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359333471#January–June", "title": "1824", "revid": 1359333471, "section": "Deaths › January–June"}}, {"year": 1824, "year_label": "1824 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 19", "text": "April 19 – Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron), the British poet, dies at the age of 36 in the Greek city of Missolonghi, where he had taken ill while making plans to liberate the Greeks from Ottoman rule, \"not in combat, but of a fever caught in the unhealthy conditions at Missolonghi... exacerbated, it is generally agreed, by the over-zealous actions of his doctors, who bled him excessively.\"", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359333471#April–June", "title": "1824", "revid": 1359333471, "section": "Events › April–June"}}]}