Edgar Allan Poe

By Seanriffe95

  • James Madison becomes president

  • Edgar Poe born in Boston to actors David and Eliza Poe

  • Period: to

    Poe's life

  • Eliza Poe, on theatrical tour, dies in Richmond

  • Edgar is taken in by John and Frances Allan

  • The war of 1812 begins

  • The Star Spangled Banner is composed

  • Moves to England with the Allan family

  • Poe attends school in London and suburban Stoke-Newington

  • Poe moves (with the Allan family) back to Richmond

  • Poe continues schooling in Richmond

  • Monroe Doctrine

  • Poe is secretly engaged to Sarah Elmira Royster

  • Poe enrolls at The University of Virginia

  • Apon his return to Richmond he finds his fiance is engaged to another man

  • Poe enlists in U.S. Army as “Edgar A. Perry”

  • Poe moves back to Boston

  • Poe's step-mother Frances Allan dies.

  • Poe is discharged from the army

  • Expelled from West Point

  • “MS. Found in a Bottle” is published in Baltimore Saturday Visitor

    He wins awards for this work, but no money.

  • John Allan dies

  • Moves to Richmond in mid-summer to join Messenger editorial staff

  • Poe marries his 13 year old cousin Virginia Clemm

  • Resigns from The Messenger

  • Moves to New York City

  • Poe moves to Philadelphia

  • Poe completes "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque"

  • Poe moves back to New York City

  • Poe publishes “The Raven” in the New York Evening Mirror

  • Mexican War

  • Poe moves to Fordham, New York

  • Virginia Clemm Poe dies

  • Found delirious in Baltimore, 3 October

  • Poe dies at the age of 40

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