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Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts under David and Elizabeth Poe.
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Elizabeth Poe died of Tuberculosis when she was 24 years old, leaving all of the Poe children to be orphans.
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The date isn't exactly correct, but around that time, Edgar Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan, a wealthy family from Richmond, Virginia.
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The United States declared war on Great Brittain June 18th, 1812, which began the war of 1812.
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This was composed by Francis Scott Key while he was watching the destuction of Fort McHenry from a boat. When he was sure that the Americans would lose, he woke up in the morning and saw that the flag was still raised, and he wrote the poem.
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There is controversy on who won the war, but it all ended with the Treaty of Ghent.
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The Raven was written a while before it was acutally published, when it was in the The New York Evenining Mirror
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Congress declared war on Mexico, because there was a large dispute on land.
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Virginia Poe dies of Tuberculosis, which coincidentally, is how his mother and foster mother died.
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Poe died October 7th, 1849 at Washington University Hospital in Baltimore. He is buried in Westminster Burying Ground in Baltimore. There are several theories on how he died, like alchoholism, rabies, epilepsy, and more.
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The short story was written in 1843, but was not published until 1850. Only a year after the death of Poe.
