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Poe was orphened and adopted.
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The Allan family sails to London, where Edgar enrolls in school.(Shmoop)
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Five years after leaving America for England, the Allans return to Richmond, Virginia. (Shmoop)
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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." (Shmoop)
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Poe, who is 27 years old,marries his thirteen-year-old cousin
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Poe's first novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, is published.
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Poe's wife Virginia dies of tuberculosis at their home in the Bronx. Poe has been so despondent during the final months of her illness that friends thought he was going insane. The loss of his wife sends Poe into a downward spiral of alcoholism. (Shmoop)
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After being found unconscious in a Baltimore gutter, Edgar Allan Poe is taken to the hospital and pronounced dead of causes still unknown. He is buried at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Baltimore.
