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Edgar Allen Poe is Born
Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan. -
Poe's sister is born
Poe's sister Rosalie Poe was born about a year after him, would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. -
Poe's Parents Die
Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant and his wife. -
Poe Writes His First Poem
— Last night, with many cares & toils oppres‘d, Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest.” This is Poe’s earliest surviving poem. It was never published during his lifetime. -
Jpins Army after first book is published
Poe enlists in the United States Army under the name Edgar A. Perry. -
Poe's older brother dies
William Henry Leonard Poe, Edgar’s older brother, dies in Baltimore, probably of tuberculosis or cholera -
Poe marries 13 year old cousin
Edgar (aged 27) and Virginia (aged 13) marry in Richmond, Virginia. The ceremony is officiated by the Reverend Amasa Convers, a Presbyterian minister who was also editor of the Southern Religious Telegraph. -
Poe writes his first novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is published in New York by Harper & Brothers. -
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque - two volumes.
Poe’s Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (two volumes) is published in Philadelphia by Lea and Blanchard. -
The Raven-Published
Poe wrote the poem in late 1844, while staying at the farm of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Henry Brennan in New York. -
Poe's wife Virginia dies of tuberculosis at their home in the Bronx
Virginia Poe dies of tuberculosis in Fordham, New York. She is entombed on February 2 in the Valentine family vault in the Dutch Reformed Church at Fordham. -
Edgar Allen Poe dies
Edgar Allan Poe dies in Baltimore in the Washington University Hospital
