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Edgar Allan Poe Decade Timeline

By hammertime1284

  • Poe publishes "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabsque"

    This is Poe's first collection of short stories
  • Poe is hired as assistant editor of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine

    Poe is hired as assistant editor of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine

  • Antarctica is discovered and claimed by the US

  • The Independent Treasury Act is signed

    The government becomes exclusively responsible for its own funds

  • Poe writes "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"

  • William Harrison is Inaugurated but contracts pnuemonia and dies a month later

  • Slaves aboard a ship mutiny and sail to freedom in Britain

  • Poe's wife, Virginia, breaks a blood vessel in her neck, showing the first signs of tuberculosis

    Poe's wife, Virginia, breaks a blood vessel in her neck, showing the first signs of tuberculosis

  • "Oregon Fever" sparks a mass migration to the West along the Oregon Trail

  • Poe moves to New York

  • The first telegram is sent

  • The phrase "Manifest Destiny" catches on

  • Poe writes "The Raven" and it is an instant success

    Poe writes "The Raven" and it is an instant success

  • Texas joins the Union

  • The potato famine in Ireland begins

  • Poe sues a magazine for slandering him and wins

  • The Battle of Palo Alto starts the Mexican-American War

  • California, Iowa and New Mexico are annexed by America

  • Fredrick Douglass founds The North Star

  • Poe's wife Virginia dies of tuberculosis

    Poe's wife Virginia dies of tuberculosis

  • Congressman Abraham Lincoln speaks against the Mexican war

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed, ending the Mexican-American War

  • Poe joins the "Sons of Temperance" in an attempt to end his alchoholism

  • James Marshall finds gold and the California Gold Rush begins

  • Poe dies in Baltimore

    Poe dies in Baltimore

    After boarding the wrong train and being found, half concious in the streets of Baltimore, Poe dies in a hospital. The cause of death is still unknown