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Edgar Poe was born to David and Elizabeth Poe in Boston, Massachusetts on January 19th, 1809.
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(Month and Day Unknown) When Poe was just three years old, his mother died of tuberculosis. She was only tewnty four.
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(Month and Day unknown) Poe is taken in, but not officially adopte, by John and Frances Allan after his mother died.
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The war of 1812 began.
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Thomas Jefferson died from physical weakness.
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Beethoven died from lead-poisoning.
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(Day and Month Unknown) Andrew Jackson became the seventh president of the United States of America.
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Frances Allen, Poe's foster mother, died of tuberculosis, the same disease his mother died of.
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(Month and Date Unknown, Year= Estimate) Edgar Allan Poe and Sarah Elmira Royster were secretyl engaged. Roysters's father disaproved of Poe, so he cut-off their letters. Sarah thought that Edgar had forgotten her, so she ended the engagement.
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Poe married his cousin, Virginia Clemm, when she is thirteen years old in Richmond, Virginia.
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Poe's poem, "The Raven", is published and becomes ver popular.
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Virginia died from tuberculosis at age twenty four, the same disease and age at which Edgar's mother, Elizabeth died, and the same disease that caused his foster mother, Frances, died.
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