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Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Continues his schooling in Richmond
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Greek War of Independence starts
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United States signs a treaty declining the power of Spain.
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Mexico, interested in populating Texas,
mexico allows Stephen F. Austin to sell plots of land to settlers so long as they are of good character. -
Steam powered shipping begins
between Switzerland and France on Lake Geneva. -
One of the most interesting presidential elections in U.S. history
John Adams was elected president even though Andrew Jackson had the most votes. This was the first election where the president did not win the popular vote. -
Poe writes his first known poem
A fifteen-year-old Edgar Allan Poe pens his first known poem: "Last night, with many cares & toils oppres'd,/ Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest."31 -
Edgar secretly engaged to Sarah Elmira Royster
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John Quincy Adams becomes President
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Poe is a student at the University of Virginia
Poe enrolls midway through the academic year at the University of Virginia, which had opened less than a year before. -
Edgar Poe splits with Allans
After running up a $2,000 gambling debt while at college, Poe gets into an argument with his foster father when John Allan refuses to give him money to settle the debt. Poe ditches college and the Allans. He moves to Baltimore to join relatives there -
Poe is soldier and published author
Poe enlists in the U.S. Army under the name "Edgar A. Perry." Shortly after, his first book—a poetry collection entitled Tamerlane and Other Poems—is published. The author is listed only as "A Bostonian." -
Ludwig Van Beethoven dies.
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New York passes a state law emancipating slaves.
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Construction begins on Baltimore & Ohio, first American railroad
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Death of Edgar's foster mother
Poe's foster mother, Frances Allan, with whom he was still close, dies in Richmond. Poe—by now a sergeant major in the Army—obtains leave to travel to her funeral. -
Edgar got promoted to Sergeant Major
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Poe transferred to Fortress Monroe, Virginia
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Andrew Jackson becomes president
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Scotch tape is invented.
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In England the lawn mower is invented.
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A Frenchman patents a sewing machine.
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Emily Dickinson is born in Massachusetts.
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Edgar is rejected from West Point and emerging writer
Tired of the military, Poe successfully attempts to get himself kicked out of West Point. When he stops going to classes and chapel, Poe is court-martialed and dismissed. He publishes several anonymous short stories plus another book of poems. -
Cyrus McCormick invents the reaper-harvester.
making it possible to to harvest at three times the previous speed.
