Edgar Allan Poe

  • Edgar Allan Poe is born.

  • Poe's Sister is born

  • Poe's Parents die.

  • Poe writes his first poem.

  • Poe enlists in the U.S. Army and shortly after his first book is published.

  • Poe's older brother dies.

  • Poe marries his thirteen year old cousin, Virginia Clemm

  • Poe writes his first novel 'The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym'

  • Poe's story collection 'Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque' is published in two volumes.

  • Poe publishes the poem, 'The Raven'

  • Poe's wife Virginia dies of tuberculosis at their home in the Bronx

  • Edgar Allan Poe Dies.