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Poe applies to West Point, John Allan sponsors him.
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Poe deliberately gets kicked out of West Point.
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John Allan dies and leaves Edgar nothing in his will.
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Poe finally gets a job.
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poe married his cousin
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Poe writes "Ligeia".
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1st illustrated weekly magazine in US publishes 1st issue, NYC
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4,500 British & Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India
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City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours (Hamburg Germany)
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John Francis attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria
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Seminole War ends; Indians removed from Florida to Oklahoma
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Virginia Poe breaks a blood-vessel while playing the piano.
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NY Philharmonic's 1st concert
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Boston conducts its 1st town meeting (Faneuil Hall)
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1st wagon train, 1000+ depart Independence Missouri for Oregon
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It snows in Buffalo & Rochester NY & Cleveland Ohio
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Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony
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National black convention meets (Buffalo NY)
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Poe wins a hundred dollar prize for "The Gold Bug".
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Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol," in England
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Texan envoys sign Treaty of Annexation with the United States
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1st telegraphed news dispatch is published in Baltimore Patriot
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1st US yacht club organized, NY Yacht Club
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death of poe's wife virginia clemm