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Born January 19 1809 in Boston Massachusetts. -
Poe’s parents separated in 1810, Elizabeth Poe took the children.
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Poe’s parents died and he was moved to Richmond Virginia to be raised by Frances Allan (tobacco exporter) as a foster child. -
Edgar starts going to school at six years old in England for 5 years.
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Edgar returns to the United States and continues school, in Richmond Virginia. -
Poe studied for 11 months at the University of Virginia for ancient and modern langue's.
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Edgar Allan Poe published his first work Tamberlane and Other Poems.
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Poverty forced Poe to join the U.S. Military where he went by the name Edgar A. Perry
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Poes mother Eliza Poe died from tuberculosis.
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He was purposefully kicked out of the military by being absent from drills and classes for a week and he returned to Baltimore where he started writing stories.
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Edgar was back in Richmond working as a editor for the Southern Literary Messenger.
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Poe married his cousin, Virginia, she was 13 years old when they got married.
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Poe moves back to New York City, and wrote “The Purloined Letter” and “The Premature Burial”
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Poe's wife Virginia died from tuberculosis. -
Poe mysteriously died and no one actually knows what happened, some say rabies others say he was drunken in a gutter, but did end up dying in a hospital.
