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Edgar Allen Poe

  • Born

    Born
    Born January 19 1809 In Boston Massachusetts.
  • Mother Dies

    Mother Dies
    Edgar Poe mother died when he was the age of 3
  • England

    Poe moved to England with his family.He attends boarding school with there.
  • College

    College
    For 11 months he attended the University Of Virginia.
  • Publishes A Pamphlet Of Youthful Poems (Tamerlane)

    Publishes A Pamphlet Of Youthful Poems (Tamerlane)
    Tamerlane was on of poe's poems.Its based on his early love with Sarah elmira who he was engaged to & his mother Eliza Poe.
  • Military

    Military
    May 26,1827 Poe moved to Boston & enlisted into the U.S army.
  • South Carolina

    While in Military he was stationed at Fort Moultrie in SC.
  • New Volume

    Poe published his second volume at Baltimore.(Al Aaraaf,Tamerlane,Minor Poems)
  • "Ms.Found in a Bottle"

    One of his poems had won $50 from a Baltimore weekly.The name of this poem was called Ms.Found in a Bottle.
  • Richmond

    Poe was an editor of the Southern Literacy Messenger.This was in Richmond Virginia.
  • Marriage

    Marriage
    In 1836 he married a 13 year old named Virginia Clemm which was his first cousin.He was 27 years old at the time they got married
  • Long Pose Narrative

    While Poe was in New York City he published "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym".
  • Coeditor

    Coeditor
    In 1839 he had became a co-editor of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine In Philadelphia.
  • Sickness

    Poes wife become sick with tuberculous
  • "The Gold Bug"

    Poe's story "The Gold Bug" won $100 from Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper.
  • "Ulalume"

    Poe establishes his story called the "Ulalume".
  • Wife Death

    Wife Death
    Poe's wife Virginia died at the age of 24 due to tuberculosis.This cause his to struggle with depression & alcoholism.
  • The "Eureka"

    Poe published the lecture "Eureka".Its an explanation of the universe that has been hailed by some critics & others.
  • Engagement

    Poe engagement to Elmira Royster for the second time.
  • Death

    Death
    Died October 7 1849 in Baltimore Maryland.There is no exact reason on how he died there is just multiple theories.