Edgar Allen Poe

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  • Birth

    Birth
    Edgar Allan Poe, (born January 19, 1809, Boston, Massachusetts, Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Poe, Jr were his parents.
  • Death of hi mother

    Death of hi mother
    Edgar's mother, Elizabeth dies from tuberculosis.
  • Schooling

    Schooling
    When Edgar was 6 yrs old he went to school in England he went to school there for 5 yrs as the time he was there he learned Latin and French as well as math and history.
  • Edgar's education

    Edgar's education
    He was later taken to Scotland and England (1815–20), where he was given a classical education that was continued in Richmond. For 11 months in 1826 he attended the University of Virginia, but his gambling losses at the university so incensed his guardian that he refused to let him continue, and Poe returned to Richmond to find his sweetheart, (Sarah) Elmira Royster, engaged. He went to Boston, where in 1827 he published a pamphlet of youthful Byronic poems, Tamerlane, and Other Poems.
  • Schooling

    Schooling
    After a few yrs taking schooling in England he moved back to the united states to finish his schooling he moved back at 11 yrs old.
  • His Uncles death

    His Uncles death
    Edgar Allan Poe inherits a fortune when his uncle Jhon alan dies.
  • Edgar as a Kid

    Edgar as a Kid
    As a boy, Poe attended the best schools available, and was admitted to the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1825.
    On October 3, he was discovered in a state of semi-consciousness.
  • His death

    His death
    he died four days later without regaining the necessary lucidity to explain what had happened during the last days of his life.
  • Death of his first wife

    Death of his first wife
    Poe's wife Virginia died of tuberculosis