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Born under the name of Edgar Poe in Boston. Product of the marriage of actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and actor David Poe Jr. has an older brother, William Henry Arnold Hopkin
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1811 Death of his mother.
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From 1815 to 1820 he lived with John Allan and his wife in the UK, where their education began.
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The Allan family travels to Britain. Edgar attending school for a short period in Irvine, Scotland; birthplace of his adoptive father.
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He meets up with his family in London. Study at Chelsea until the summer of 1817.
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Enter the Reverend John Bransby school in Stoke Newington.
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He and his family returned to Richmond, Virginia.
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He enrolled at the University of Virginia to study languages.
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July. Make your first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems, a text of 40 pages, signed by "a Bostonian". The text did not receive any attention.
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April. It's moving to Boston. He works as a writer in newspapers under the pseudonym Henri Le Rennet.
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May. It is part of the United States Navy under the name Edgar A. Perry; claiming to have 22 years, actually he was 18.
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February. Death of his adoptive mother, Frances Valentine Allan.
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Travel to Baltimore to live with his aunt Maria Clemm, his cousin Virginia Eliza Clemm, his brother Henry, and his grandmother Elizabeth Cairnes Poe before joining West Point. The same year he published his second book, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems.
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Enter the service as a cadet at West Point.
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His adoptive father married a second time. Edgar known as his son.
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Travel to New York and made his third book, titled Poems. The book is financed with help from his friends cadets at West Point.
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Already doomed his literary career, she receives an award from The Baltimore Saturday Visiter, for his story "MS. Found in a Bottle. "
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Virginia Clemm symptoms of tuberculosis. Poe increase their alcohol consumption.
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Virginia Clemm died.
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Dies in Baltimore on Sunday October 7 at 5 am.
