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Edger Allen Poe Timeline

  • Edger Allen poe is born

    Edger Allen poe is born
    Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts. His father, named David Poe Jr., and his mother, named Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe
  • Poe's sister is born

    Poe's  sister is born
    Rosalie Poe, the youngest of the three children of David Poe and Eliza Arnold, was born on December 10, 1811. Her birth was in Norfolk, Virginia
  • poe's parents die

    poe's parents die
    Edgar Allan Poe's natural mother, Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe died of pneumonia.Poe's natural mother died of tuberculosis
  • worte his first poems

    worte his first poems
    Poe's first published poem is called "Tamerlane", which he published in 1827 in a book called "Tamerlane and other poems.".
  • poe enlists in the U.S. Army and shortly after his first book is published

    poe enlists in the U.S. Army and shortly after his first book is published
    Edgar Allan Poe was in the army two separate times. The first was as an enlisted man under the alias of Edgar A. Perry and he rose to the rank of Sergeant Major, the highest non-commissioned rank a soldier could achieve
  • poe's older brother died

    poe's older brother died
    William Henry Leonard Poe died. He was 24 years old. Henry had served as a sailor for a time but his life was cut short due to tuberculosis
  • poe marries hus 13 year old cousin

    poe marries hus 13 year old cousin
    Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe was the wife of Edgar Allan Poe, and the couple were first cousins and publicly married when Virginia was 13 and Poe was 27.
  • poe writes his first novel The narstive of Arthur Gordon Pym.

    poe writes his first novel The narstive of Arthur Gordon Pym.
    The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is the only complete novel written by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaling ship called the Grampus
  • poe's story collections Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is published in two volumes

    poe's story collections Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is published in two volumes
    Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840
  • poe publishes the poem, The Raven

    poe publishes the poem, The Raven
    ''The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere
  • poe's wife dies of tuberculosis at their home in the bronxs.

    poe's wife dies of tuberculosis at their home in the bronxs.
    she died of tuberculosis in Bronx, NY
  • Edgar allan Poe dies

    Edgar allan Poe dies
    he died in Baltimore, MD. no one really knows how he died