Edgar Allan Poe Timeline

By Mariajose1

  • Edgar Allan Poe is born

  • Poe's sister is born

  • Poe's parents die

  • Poe writes his first poem

  • Poe enlists in the U.S. Army and shortly after his first book is published

  • Poe's older brother dies

  • Poe marries his thirteen year old cousin, Virginia Clemm

  • Poe writes his first novel "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym"

  • Poe's story collection "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque" is published in two volumes

  • Poe publishes the poem, "The Raven"

  • Poe's wife Virginia dies of tuberculosis at their home in the Bronx

  • Edgar Allen Poe dies