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Edgar Allan Poe is born
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809. He grew up and followed his dream of being a writer of books and short stories. From writing these stories he has been credited with invinting science fiction. -
Poe's Sister is born
Rosalie Poe was born in Norfolk, Virginia on December 10, 1810. She went to early schooling at Jane Mackenzie School for Girls. She has a brain desease and she seemed scatter brained for most of her child hood. -
Poe's parents die
His parents were David and Elizabeth Poe. David was born in Baltimore on July 18, 1784. Elizabeth Arnold came to the U.S. from England in 1796 and married David Poe after her first husband died in 1805. They had three children, Henry, Edgar, and Rosalie. Elizabeth Poe died in 1811, when Edgar was 2 years old. She had separated from her husband and had taken her three kids with her. Henry went to live with his grandparents while Edgar was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. John Allan and Rosalie was taken -
Poe writes his first poem
A fifteen-year-old Edgar Allan Poe pens his first known poem: Last night, with many cares & toils oppres'd,/ Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest. -
Poe enlists in the U.S. Army
On January 28, 1831, a court-martial tried a young cadet at the U.S. Military Academy on charges of gross neglect of duty and disobedience of orders. Sergeant Major Edgar Allan Poe was found guilty of both charges and discharged from the service of the United States only six months after he had arrived at the academy. This is the story of how the author’s military career went so wrong, so fast. -
Poe's older brother dies
Henry, who was a heavy drinker and may have been an alcoholic, died of tuberculosis on August 1, 1831, in Baltimore, likely in the same room or even the same bed which he shared with his brother Edgar. He was twenty-four. Henry was buried at what is now Westminster Hall and Burying Ground, where his brother would be buried several years later. Henry's obituary misspelled his name as "W. H. Hope". -
Poe marries his thirteen year old cousin, Virginia
Was the wife of American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The couple were first cousins and married when Virginia Clemm was 13 and Poe was 27. Some biographers have suggested that the couple's relationship was more like that between brother and sister than like husband and wife in that they may have never consummated their marriage. -
Poe writes his first novel "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym"
is the only complete novel written by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaling ship called the Grampus. Various adventures and misadventures befall Pym, including shipwreck, mutiny, and cannibalism, before he is saved by the crew of the Jane Guy.
