“January 22nd, Missolonghi: On this Day I Complete my Thirty-Sixth Year ... That April, less than three months later, Lord Byron died.

On April 19, 1824, Lord Byron died at Missolonghi, where he had gone to lend his name and give financial support to the Greek war for independence from the Ottoman Empire. After being drenched by ...

On April 19, 1924, centenary of the death at Missolonghi*of Byron, most famous of the champions of the cause of Greek freedom during their eight years’ revolution against the Turks, will be more ...

It is almost two hundred years since the death of Lord Byron. He succumbed to a fever on April 19, 1824, in the town of Missolonghi, on the west coast of Greece, at the age of thirty-six.

The poet, though, never saw battle. He died of fever — and relentless bloodletting, that era’s standard of care — at Missolonghi, on the west coast of Greece. He was 36. Byron is regarded as a Homeric ...

Lord Byron died at the age of 36 of malaria complications in Missolonghi, in the land whose captive beauty he mourned in Canto II of his immensely popular “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” (1812 ...

April 19, 2024 This week is the 200th anniversary of Lord Byron’s death. The most famous poet of his age (an odd phrase now) died fighting for Greek independence in the marshes of Missolonghi.

He died of a fever in Missolonghi, Greece, where he had lent his name, person, and what remained of his fortune to the Greek struggle for independence from Ottoman rule. Byron may well be ...

He died there, in Missolonghi, of a fever on April 19th 1824, aged 36. The Greeks, who adored him, kept his lungs and larynx in an urn; the rest of Byron was returned to England, against his wishes.