Edgar Allen Poe

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
12/10/1810	Poe's Sister	Poe's sister Rosalie is born. Shortly after her birth, or possibly even before it, David Poe deserts the family, leaving Poe's mother alone with three children. Making matters worse, Elizabeth Poe soon falls ill with TeBurculosis (http://www.shmoop.com/poe/timeline.html)
11/07/1811	Orphaned	Poe was Orphaned And addopted by John Allen. his addoptive father who never loved him (http://www.shmoop.com/poe/timeline.html)
12/08/1811	Parent's Death	Elizabeth Arnold Poe dies of tuberculosis in Richmond, Virginia. Within days, David Poe also dies of tuberculosis. With no parents to take care of them, the three children of the family are split up. Henry goes to live with his paternal grandparents. A Richmond couple, John and Frances Allan, take in Edgar as a foster child. Rosalie is taken in by another Richmond family named Mackenzie. Both Edgar and Rosalie adopt their foster families' names as their middle names.
06/22/1815	Poe's Family Travels to England	Poe is enrolled in an English boarding school.
07/27/1820	Back to the USA	Five years after leaving America for England, the Allans return to Richmond, Virginia.
10/17/1824	First Poem	A fifteen-year-old Edgar Allan Poe pens his first known poem: "Last night, with many cares & toils oppres'd,/ Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest."31
02/14/1826	Poe's enrolles in College	Poe enrolls midway through the academic year at the University of Virginia, which had opened less than a year before.
02/27/1827	Seperates from the Allens	Splits With Allans After running up a $2,000 gambling debt while at college, Poe gets into an argument with his foster father when John Allan refuses to give him money to settle the debt. Poe ditches college and the Allans. He moves to Baltimore to join relatives there.
Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
01/19/1809 to 10/07/1849	Poe's Life