Lord Byron

Charles I convened the Oxford Parliament at Christ Church Hall on 22 January 1644 to support the Royalist war effort.

Parliamentarian forces under Sir Thomas Fairfax defeated Royalists led by Lord Byron, halting a series of Royalist successes in Cheshire.

Byron and Lieutenant Ekenhead swam from Europe to Asia across the Dardanelles on 3 May 1810.

Byron first addressed the House of Lords on 27 February 1812, opposing legislation to punish Nottinghamshire frame breakers with death.

Lord Byron wrote "She Walks in Beauty" in 1814. The short lyrical poem in iambic tetrameter was later included in the Hebrew Melodies collection.

Lord Byron's verse tale The Corsair was published in London by John Murray in 1814, achieving immediate commercial success.

Lord Byron and Anne Isabella Milbanke married privately by special licence at Seaham Hall in County Durham on 2 January 1815.

Shelley completed the writing of the novel in April or May 1817.

The novel was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818 by Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones.

Byron wrote the first canto of Don Juan between July and September 1818 while resident in Italy, and reported its completion to Thomas Moore that September.

Byron reached Missolonghi on 5 January 1824 after a roundabout route to avoid the Ottoman Navy.

Byron formed a brigade of philhellene officers and men, paid for entirely by himself.

Byron fell ill in February 1824 and died on 19 April 1824 from a fever.