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Birth in London
Father: John Byron
Mother: Catherine Gordon of Gight
He was lame since he was born because of Achilles tendon contraction. -
Father's Death
The father escaped from London and he went in France, after causing to his family a lot of debts and economic problems. Later he died, maybe for a suicide. -
Lord Byron
On this date he becomes the sixth Lord of Byron family, after the death of his granduncle.
He inherited vast estates, like Newstead Abbey (Scotland). -
Harrow School
He became famous for his desire to read and for his insobriety and belligerently attitude. -
First love
Mary Ann Chaworth, a distant cousin. -
Trinity College of Cambridge
There he met his dearest friends.
He fall in love with John Edleston. -
"Fugitive Pieces"
A little book of poetry with a war meaning that he, later, refusal. -
"Poems On Various Occasions"
The second release of "Fugitive Pieces". -
"Hours of Idleness"
Another release of "Fugitive Pieces" where he eliminated some parts.
This poem is not accepted by Ediburgh Review so Lord Byron replied with a satire called "English Bard and Scotch Reviewers". -
Grand Tour
Lord Byron is accompained by John Cam Hobhouse.
They left Falmouth to go to Lisbon; they visited Seville, Cadiz, Gibraltar, Malta, Preveza, Harbour Epirus, Ioannina, Albania, Athens and Constantinople. -
New Poems
When John Cam Hobhouse returned to London, Lord Byron had a relationship with Nicolò Giraud.
In Greece, he wrote new poems like "Hints From Horace" and "The Curse of Minerva". -
Back to London
He coninued to live in Newstead Abbey and in London.
He had a mourning period because of his mother, Charles Skinner Matthews and the lover John Edlston died. -
"Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
He started to write the first two chapters of his most famous poem.
In this poem he described the countries that he visited.
The protagonist is temperamentally similar to Lord Byron so the pomes is an idealized autobiography. -
"Turkish Tales"
Oriental tales in verses based on a plot between exoticism and romantic melodrama.
Byron called "The great Napoleon of the realms and rhyme" because these tales roused a lot of success like the Napoleon military actions. -
Marriage with Anne Isabella Milbanke
He had a dandy and poseur attitude that led him to had a lot of relationship. He was described by one of his lovers like "dark and handsome, mad and dengerous".
He had a daughter with a married woman so he was forced to marry an hereditary maiden to appease the scandal. -
Self-exile from London
Finally he e and Annabella divorced.
He could no longer enter into the House of Lords.
Also the people were against him after the release of some unwelcome poems.
In thi period he was accused of incest, sodomy and homosexuality.
fu accusato di incesto, omosessualità, sodomia ecc -
Villa Diodati
He left Lond and he went to Geneva, here he settled in Villa Diodati. Near thiis house, lived the future wife and her stepsister with which he had a relation and a daughter in London few months ago.
The Percy Bysshe Shelley landascape inspired Mary Shelley, Polidori and his poetry. -
"Don Juan"
In Italy he wrote some poems and he learned italian and venetian dialect.
Also in Italy he had a lot of relationship. -
Teresa
In Ravenna, he fall in love with Teresa Gamba.
During this period he wrote another poems about his hatred of tyranny. -
"Liberal"
In Pisa he pubblushed his magazine.
His period of serenity was destryed by the death of Allegra (one of his daughter), Shelley and Edward Elleker Williams.
He leave Tuscany and he went near Genoa. -
Greek war of independence
He signed the adhesion to the filellenica english association in support of the war between Greek and Ottomans.
He fall in love with Lukas Chalandritsanos. -
Death in Missolungi
He died in Greece after rheumatic fever.
The London aristocracy made to the rebel poet the last vengeance: paraded 47 empty carriages in mourning.
