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Friday 24th of August 1770

255 years ago



Poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry Thomas Chatterton commits suicide by arsenic poisoning at the age of 18 in Brooke Street, Holborn, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


After drinking the poison Chatterton tore into fragments whatever literary remains were at hand.