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Edgar Poe is born in Boston to Elizabeth Arnold Poe and David Poe, Jr., both traveling actors. The couple already a son named Henry.That is older than Edgar.
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Poe's sister Rosalie is born. Shortly after her birth, or possibly even before it, David Poe deserts the family, leaving Poe's mother alone with three children. Making matters worse, Elizabeth Poe soon falls ill with tuberculosis.
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Elizabeth Arnold Poe dies of tuberculosis in Richmond, Virginia. Within days, David Poe also dies of tuberculosis. With no parents to take care of them, the three children of the family are split up. Henry goes to live with his paternal grandparents. A Richmond couple, John and Frances Allan, take in Edgar as a foster child. Rosalie is taken in by another Richmond family named Mackenzie. Both Edgar and Rosalie adopt their foster families' names as their middle names.
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Poe Writes his first poem called, "The Black Raven".
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Poe enlists in the U.S. Army under the name "Edgar A. Perry." Shortly after, his first books a poetry collection entitled Tamerlane and Other Poems and is published. The author is listed only as "A Bostonian.
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Edgar's older brother Henry dies of either tuberculosis or cholera at the age of 27.
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Poe married at 27 years old and he marries his thirteen-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm, at a ceremony in Richmond, Virginia.
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Poe published his first novel.
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Poe's story collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is published in two volumes.Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840.
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The Raven was one of the most famous poems wrote by Poe in 1845. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere.
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Poe's wife Virginia dies of turberculosis in thier home, in Bronx. The couple were first cousins and married when Virginia Clemm was 13 and Poe was 27. Biographers disagree as to the nature of the couple's relationship.
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Edgar Allan Poe Dies, after being found unconscious in a Baltimore gutter, Edgar Allan Poe is taken to the hospital and pronounced dead of causes still unknown. He is buried at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Baltimore.
