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Edgar Poe is born in Boston.
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Edgar Allan Poe's Life Span
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Edgar's parents separate. Elizabeth takes the children.
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Edgar's mother dies. Edgar is adopted by Mr. & Mrs. John Allan.
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Edgar Allan goes to school in England.
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Edgar returns to the United States and continues schooling.
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Poe joins the US army.
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Poe writes first book, "Tamerlane and other Poems".
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Poe's adopted mother dies.
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Poe wins a contest for "The Manuscript Found in a Bottle" and gets a job because of it.
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Edgar Poe marries cousin Virginia.
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Poe writes "The Fall of the House of Usher".
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Poe's first volume of shortstories is published.
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Poe writes "The Murders in the Rue Morgue".
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Poe writes "The Raven".
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Poe's wife, Virginia, dies from tuberculosis.
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Poe is found half conscious and is taken to a hospital.
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Edgar Allan Poe dies in the hospital.
