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Edgar Allen Poe was born.
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Poe enrolls midway through the academic year at the University of Virginia, which had opened less than a year before.
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Poe enlists in the U.S. Army under the name "Edgar A. Perry." Shortly after, his first book—a poetry collection entitled Tamerlane and Other Poems—is published.
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Poe is appointed to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. A few months later he publishes his second book of poetry, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems.
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Edgar Allan Poe dies.