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Edgar Allan Poe is Born
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston ,MA to David and Eliza Poe. Edgar Allen Poe latter became an American writer, editor, and literary critic. -
Edgar Allan Poe Sister is born
Rosalie, sister of Edgar Allan Poe, is said to have been born in December of 1810, but have no solid documentary evidence -
Allans Parents Die
Elizabeth Poe died of tuberculosis in Richmond, Virginia.Soon arrived that David Poe had died of the same disease, within days of his estranged wife. The three Poe children were split. Henry went off to live with his paternal grandparents. Rosalie was adopted by the Mackenzie family of Richmond. And Edgar was taken in by the family of John and Frances Allan, a well-to-do Richmond couple unable to have children of their own. He added his foster family's name to his own, becoming Edgar Allan Poe. -
Poe writes his first poem.
when he was fifteen and back in Richmond, Poe penned his first poem: "Last night, with many cares & toils oppres'd,/ Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest."5 -
Poe enlists in the U.S. Army Just shortly after his frist book is published
In 1827, Poe enlisted in the U.S. Army under the name "Edgar A. Perry." He did well as a soldier, rising to the rank of sergeant major. -
Poe's brother dies
Almost immediately after he left West Point, his brother Henry died of tuberculosis. -
Poe gets Married
he Marries his 13 year old cousin, Virginia Clemm -
First novel
published his first and only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. -
Poe's story collection is published in two volumes.
it was the Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque and some short story classics -
The Raven
The poem was perfectly Poe—suspense that built steadily toward a dramatic end, the haunting specter of a lost love. The Raven was wildly successful and remains Poe's most famous work -
poe's wife deis
Virginia Clemm died of tuberculosis at the couple's home in the Bronx. Poe was so distraught with grief that people thought he had gone insane. -
Edgar Allan Poe dies
Allan Poe was found in a Baltimore street some reports say in a gutter, semi-conscious and wearing clothes that didn't fit him. He was taken to a hospital, where he spent four days before he died no one really knows what happened fro him to be found the way he was found
