Byron's Grand Tour
1809–1811 · Event
With Hobhouse, Byron travels through war-torn Portugal and Spain to Albania, Greece and Constantinople, gathering the material for Childe Harold.
On these timelines: Arts and Thoughts, Master, United Kingdom (combined), Ancient Greece
More from Arts and Thoughts
- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (750 BCE)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Scientific Revolution (1543)
- Epic of Gilgamesh recorded (2100 BCE)
- Euclid's Elements (300 BCE)
- The Last Supper (1495)
Around 1809
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Napoleon's rule of France (1799)
- Otto von Bismarck (1815)
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Battle of Waterloo (1815)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Napoleonic Wars (1803)
- Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)