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Edgar Allan Poe is born on January 19, in Boston.
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Thomas Jefferson is elected as the third President of the United States.
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John and Frances Allan adopt Edgar Allan Poe.
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Elizabeth Poe dies.
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The date is acutally not certain but it is thought that David Poe, Jr. died in December of 1811.
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America declares a second war with Britain - the War of 1812.
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British forces burn down Washington D.C. during the War of 1812.
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George Stephenson builds the first steam engine locomotive.
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Thomas Jefferson is elected into office as the sixth President of the United States.
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Poe enrolls into the University of Virginia.
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Poe drops out of Universit of Virginia because John Allan isn't giving him enough money.
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Poe can't support himself so he joins the United States Army.
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Construction of the first U.S. railroad, the B&O, begins.
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Poe enrolls in the United States Military Academy.
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Poe deliberately gets kicked out of West Point.
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Slavery is banned in Great Britain.
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Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna launched an assault on the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar.
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Edgar Poe marries his cousin Virginia in May. She is 13.
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Louis Daguerre invents the daguerreotype and photography is born.
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Poe writes "The Fall of the House of Usher".
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Poe writes "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and the moder detective story is born.
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Poe writes "The Raven".
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Florida becomes the 27th State of the U.S.A. on March 3.
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Poe's wife, Virginia, dies from tuberculosis on January 30.
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The California Gold Rush begins.
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Edgar Allan Poe dies on October 7, 1849.
