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Edgar Allen Poe was born.
Edgar was born Boston, Massachusetts; he was orphaned at a young age when his mother died shortly after his father abandoned the family. Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan, of Richmond, Virginia. He was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement.He was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. -
Poe's Sister died.
Rosalie Mackenzie Poe was born December 10th, 1810. There is no solid documentary evidence for this assertion. All we know for certain is that she was born long enough after the disappearance of her mother Eliza's husband, David Poe, for questions to arise about the girl's paternity.Considering that Rosalie is generally characterized as having a childlike mentality and an off-putting personality, she still had a fair modicum of artistic talent. She died in Washington City, July 21at, 1874. -
Poe's Parent's Die.
Edgar’s mother, dies in Richmond, Virginia. Her remains are buried at Old St. John’s Church in old Richmond. The cause of her death is unknown other than some illness, perhaps pneumonia. Edgar’s father, apparently dies within a few days of his wife. The cause of his death is unknown, but he died in Norfolk. -
Poe's first poem
"Tamerlane" was Poes's first published poem; however his first written poem is "O Tempora, O Mores", which he wrote around 1825, but was never published in his lifetime.
"Tamerlane" is his first published poem in 1827. -
Poe marries thirteen year old cousin, Virginia Clemm.
Virginia was born in Baltimore on August 16, 1822, and baptized on November 15, the day her elder sister, Virginia Maria (or Sarah), was buried. As a child she called herself “Diddie”; later Poe called her “Sissie” or “Sis.” We do not know when she first met her cousin Edgar; he was living at her mother’s home in 1833, when she was ten or eleven. She adored him, carried notes from him to “Mary of Baltimore,” and went on walks with him in the neighboring countryside.Mrs. Clemm arranged for her da -
Poe Enlists in the U.S Army
Poe enlisted in the United States Army on May 26, 1827, under the pseudonym "Edgar A. Perry." (He was eighteen at the time but claimed to be twenty-two.) During his military service, he was stationed at Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island in Charleston, South Carolina—a site he would later appropriate as the setting for his story, "The Gold Bug". -
Poe's oldest brother dies.
William Henry Leonard Poe, Edgar’s older brother, dies in Baltimore, probably of tuberculosis or cholera. He became a professional sailor on the USS Macedonian, which took him to the West Indies, the Mediterranean, and Russia. After a short, unsuccessful career as a law clerk, he began publishing poems in 1827 -
The Narrative of Arthur Gardon Pym
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. Pym and a sailor named Dirk Peters continue their adventures further south. Docking on land, they encounter hostile black-skinned natives before escaping back to the ocean. The novel ends abruptly as Pym and Peters continue towards the South -
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque published in two vloumes.
This new collection of 25 stories became Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. By September of 1839, he had finally convinced a publisher to print this two-volume set.. The number of copies printed by the publisher has been given as 750 or 1,750. -
The Raven is oublished
"The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student, is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore. Sitting on a bust of Pallas, the raven seems to further instigate his distress with its constant r -
Poe's wife Virginia dies.
Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe died at the age of 24, One day while she was playing the piano she started coughing uncontrollably and a vein in her throat burst. She survived but later died of tuberculosis.Poe has been so despondent during the final months of her illness that friends thought he was going insane. The loss of his wife sends Poe into a downward spiral of alcoholism. -
Edgar Allan Poe Dies.
This is the first verifiable evidence available of Poe's whereabouts since departing Richmond in the early morning of September 27. His intended destination had been Philadelphia, where he was to edit a volume of poetry for Mrs. St. Leon Loud. Dr. Snodgrass found Poe semiconscious and dressed in cheap, ill-fitting clothes so unlike Poe's usual mode of dress that many believe that Poe's own clothing had been stolen. Poe was taken to Washington College Hospital on the afternoon of October 3 and di