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James Madison is elected president
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Edgar Poe is born.
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Poes mother dies
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War of 1812 begins
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Louisiana becomes the 18th state
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Poes family sails to London and Poe is enrolled in school
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Napoleon defeated at Waterloo
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Battle of New Orleans
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Jackson Purchase in Kentucky
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Panic of 1819
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Alabama becomes the 22nd state in the U.S.
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Poe returns to Richmond, Virginia
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Erie Canal completed
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Poe starts college
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Poe enlists in the U.S. Army
Poe enlisted in the army after running up a gambling debt and his foster parents won't pay for it. He also published his first book Tamerlane and Other Poems. -
Slavery is made illegal in New York
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Election of Andrew Jackson
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Underground Railroad established
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Texas declares independence from Mexico
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Poe gets married
Poe,27, marries his cousin,13, on May 16th. -
Depression begins
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Poe's first novel published
Poe's first novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, is published. -
Poe publishes The Raven
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Us delcares war with Mexico
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Poe's Wife Dies.
Poe's wife Virginia dies of tuberculosis at their home in the Bronx