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Lord Byron

English Romantic poet and lyricist (1788–1824)

12 dated entries naming Lord Byron, drawn from 8 separate years between 1788 CE and 1824 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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18th century

  • 1788January 22 – George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (d. 1824)source

19th century

  • 1810May 3 – Lord Byron swims across the Hellespont in Turkey.source
  • 1812February 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.source
  • 1814February 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.source
  • 1814June 12 – The poem "She Walks in Beauty" is written by Lord Byron.source
  • 1815December 10 – Ada Lovelace, English computer pioneer, daughter of Lord Byron (d. 1852)source
  • 1815January 2 – Lord Byron marries Anna Isabella Milbanke in Seaham, county of Durham, England.source
  • 1818July 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.source
  • 1822April 20 – Allegra Byron, illegitimate daughter of Lord Byron (b. 1817)source
  • 1822August 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.source
  • 1824April 19 – George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (b. 1788)source
  • 1824April 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."source

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