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41st year  -  N° 169                 Thursday, 18 June 2026         Antwerpen		
Die Kleinen und die Bösen
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Friday 24th of August 1770
256 years, 9 months and 25 days 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.