Edgar Allan Poe 1840's

By melaniea
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    1840's

  • Independent Treasury Act is signed into law

  • Poe becomes editor of Graham's Magazine

  • Poe leaves editorship of Graham's Magazine

  • Poe and Cottrell Clarke sign an agreement for a new magazine called The Stylus

  • Poe's 'The Gold Bug' wins $100 prize from the Dollar Newspaper

  • Poe delivers the first of his lectures on American Poetry in Philadelphia

  • Telegraph first used

  • Publication of Mesmeric Revelation

    No original manuscripts or fragments known to exist.

  • James Polk elected president

  • The Raven is published in the New York Evening Mirror

  • Florida becomes a state

  • Texas becomes a state

  • U.S. Congress delcares the U.S. at war with Mexico

  • Treaty with Great Britain expands Oregon Territory

  • In California, U.S. settlers proclaim the independent Republic of California

  • U.S. annexation of New Mexico

  • Iowa becomes a state

  • Poe's wife, Virginia, dies in Fordham, New York from tuberculosis

  • James Marshall discovers gold near Sutter's Fort, California

  • Wisconsin becomes a state

  • Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organize first American women's rights convention in Seneca Falls

  • Zachary Taylor inaugurated as president

  • First gold-seekers arrive in San Francisco

  • Publication of Hop Frog

  • Poe dies in Baltimore in the Washington University Hospital