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Edgar Allan Poe is Born
Author and literary critic Edgar Allan Poe is born in Boston, Massachusetts. -
Poe's Sister is born
Rosalie MacKenzie Poe was adopted by William Mackenzie and his wife in Richmond, Virginia, who gave Rosalie her middle name. Rosalie lived to relative old age and died in 1874. -
Poe's Parents Die
Elizabeth Poe died of tuberculosis in Richmond, Virginia. News soon arrived that David Poe had also died of the same disease -
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 Army & first book is published
Poe then served two years in the U.S. Army and won an appointment to West Point. Tamerlane and Other Poems is the first published work by American writer Edgar Allan Poe -
Poe's Older brother died
William Henry Leonard Poe died of tuberculosis at age 24 and was buried in a family-owned plot near his grandfather. -
Poe marries his thirteen year old cousin
The two first met in 1829, when Clemm was seven years old. He soon moved in with her family, Clemm would follow Poe on long walks. They would attend stranger's funerals while crying and holding hands. -
Poe writes his novel
Poe writes his first novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordan Pyn -
Poe's Story Collection is is published in two volumes
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (2 vols.) includes “The Fall of the House of Usher” -
Poe publishes The Raven
Poe publishes the poem , The Raven in the New York Evening Mirror. He soon becomes editor and owner of a magazine called the Broadway Journal -
Poe's Wife Dies
Poe's wife dies of tuberculosis. The loss of his wife sends Poe into a downward spiral of alcoholism -
Edgar Allan Poe Dies
Edgar is found unconscious in a Baltimore gutter, he is taken to the hospital and pronounced dead of causes still unknown.
