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Edgar Allan Poe is Born
Born in Boston, Massachusetts.The second child of two actors.His father abandoned the family in 1810, and his mother died the following year. -
Poe's Sister is born
Said in later years that David's sister, (and Edgar's mother-in-law) Maria Clemm, claimed that Rosalie was not the child of either Eliza or David Poe. -
Poe's Parents Die
Both parents died in 1811, Elizabeth Arnold Poe dies of tuberculosis in Richmond, Virginia. Within days, David Poe also dies of tuberculosis. Poe became an orphan before he was 3 years old. He was adopted by John Allan -
Poe writes his first 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." -
Poe enlists in the U.S. Army adn shortly after his first book is published
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. -
Poe's older brother dies.
Henry (Poe's brother) dies of either tuberculosis or cholera at the age of 27. -
Poe marries his thirteen year old cousin, Virginia Clemm.
They publically married when Poe was 27 and she was 13 years old. Biographers disagree as to the nature of the couple's relationship. Though their marriage was loving, some biographers suggest they viewed one another more like a brother and sister. -
Poe writes his first novel "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym."
The only complete novel written by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaling ship called the Grampus. -
Poe,s story collection "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque" is published in two volumes
Many of the stories deal with the familiar Poe themes of murder, obsession and passion, but this volume also contains many often-overlooked tales of the fantastic and comic, parodies and hoaxes -
Poe publishes the poem, "The Raven."
Poe publishe the poem in the New York Evening Mirror. It is wildly successful, bringing the writer the fame and fortune that have long eluded him. -
Poe's wife Virginia dies of tuberculosis at their hom in the Bronx.
Her tuberculosis grew worse for five years until she died of the disease at the age of 24 in the family's cottage. -
Edgar Allen Poe Dies
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.