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On this day, Edgar Allen Poe was born to David Poe, Jr and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins.
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From his birth to his death, Edgar Allen Poe was a disturbed man. In this timeline we will go over how he began writing with his interest in mystery and macbre in hand.
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Poe's sister, Rosalie, is born to David Poe, Jr. and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins, with siblings Edgar Allen Poe and William Henry Leonard Poe.
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Poe's mother dies from tubercolosis and Poe's father leaves, rending Poe, his sister and brother orphans.
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Edgar Allen Poe writes his first poem.
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Unable to support himself, Poe signs up for the Army, who paid him 5 dollars a month. He was later promoted to a salary of 10 dollars a month. His first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems, was published soon after he joined the Army.
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The eldest sibling William dies, part of the cause from alcoholism
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Poe marries Virginia Clemm, his first cousin, who was 13 at the time. This marriage lasted until Virginia's death at age 24, dying from tubercolosis.
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Poe's first novel was written.
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Poe's story collection, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, is published in two volumes.
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One of Poe's most famous literary works, The Raven, is published.
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Virginia dies of tuberculosis at the Bronx in Poe's home.
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No one knows exactly how Poe died, but there are many speculations that it was rabies, tuburculosis, and other diseases that killed him at age 40.