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Birth
Edgar Poe is born in Boston to Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Poe, Jr., both traveling actors. The couple already has one son named Henry. -
Parents' Death
Elizabeth Arnold Poe dies of tuberculosis in Richmond, Virginia. Within days, David Poe also dies of tuberculosis. -
Parents' Death
Una pareja de Richmond, John y Frances Allan , acogen a Edgar como un niño adoptivo. -
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." -
College
Poe enrolls midway through the academic year at the University of Virginia, which had opened less than a year before. -
Death of 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. -
Marriage
Poe—now 27 years old—marries his thirteen-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm, at a ceremony in Richmond, Virginia. -
First Novel
Poe's first novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, is published. -
"Nevermore"
Poe publishes the poem , The Raven in the New York Evening Mirror. -
Death of Wife
Poe's wife Virginia dies of tuberculosis at their home in the Bronx. -
Engagement
Poe proposes to a poet named Sarah Helen Whitman, who agrees on the condition that he quit drinking. Poe can't live up to the promise, and Whitman calls off the engagement a month later. -
Death
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.
