Lord Byron died on 19 April 1824 in Missolonghi, aged 36. An English Romantic poet, Byron became famous overnight with the first cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage in 1812, and also wrote the satirical epic Don Juan, which he left unfinished. He was born with a clubfoot and inherited a title as a boy. His glamorous image and scandalous private life, including the break-up of his marriage, led him to leave England in 1816, and he spent his later years in Switzerland and Italy, where he knew Percy and Mary Shelley. He took up the cause of Greek independence and died of fever in Missolonghi in 1824. The Byronic hero became a literary type.
Before and after
- 1824William Buckland describes Megalosaurus, the first dinosaur to be named
- 2 March 1824Birth of Bedřich Smetana
- from 5 March 1824 to 24 February 1826First Anglo-Burmese War
- 12 March 1824Birth of Gustav Kirchhoff
- 19 April 1824Death of Lord Byron
- 7 May 1824Beethoven's Ninth Symphony premieres
- 6 August 1824Battle of Junín
- 4 September 1824Birth of Anton Bruckner
- 9 December 1824Battle of Ayacucho
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