Edgar Allan Poe

By ThatSweatyNerd

  • Thomas Jefferson is president

  • Poe is born

    Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts
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    Lifetime

  • British Forces burn the white house during the battle of 1812

  • John Quincy Adams is president

  • Florida becomes a state

  • Battle of the Alamo

  • Tell Tale Heart is published. (Edgar beleives the eye is directly connected to the soul

  • The Black Cat is published

    Edgar Allan Poe was an alcoholic. He wrote this story with some connection to that. In the Black Cat the character succumbs to his alcohol

  • The Cask of Amontillado

    Edgar Allan Poe writes this story because of his fight with alcohol. The main character survives over it.

  • Edgar allan Poe is in the hospital drifting in and out of consciousness

  • Edgar Allan Poe dies in the hospital

    1. Election day in Baltimore was a dangerous place to be in Poe's time. There is a chance he might have been abducted by someone becuase he knew that Poe was going to vote for his opposition. This theory is supported with the fact that Poe was not wearing his own clothes when he was found. However, Poe was fairly popular in his time, so somebody would have recognized he was gone and who kidnapped him

  • Death theories continued

    1. The cooping theory -

  • Death Theories

    1. Drinking theory - this is a popular theory, but it has been disregarded by many Poe experts because he did not dring to often or intense enough to die from alcohol.
    2. Brain Lesions - Multiple doctors of his time have reported Poe with brain lesions, including the doctor who cared for Virginia during her illness.