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Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, MA on January 19, 1809
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Edgar Allan Poe's parents separate and his mother took him and his siblings
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Goes to School in England
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Five years after leaving America for England, the Allans return to Richmond, Virginia.
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A fifteen-year-old Edgar Allan Poe pens his first known poem: "Last night, with many cares & toils oppres'd,/ Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest."
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Poe enrolls in Virginia University, halfway through the year, and only a year after it opened.
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Poe drops out of school because John Allan didn't provide him with enough money.
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Poe cannot support himself, so he enlists in the army under the name Edgar A. Perry
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Poe publishes Tamerlane and Other Poems
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Frances Allan dies
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Poe is appointed to West Point
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John Allan dies and leaves Edgar with nothing from his will
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Poe takes a job as editor of the Southern Literary Messenger magazine. He publishes critical reviews of other writers' work as well as his own stories and poems.
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Poe, 27, marries his 13-year old cousin Virginia Clemm in Richmond, Virginia
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Poe's first novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, is published.
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Poe is hired as an editor at Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, a job he holds until June 1840.
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Poe's story collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is published in two volumes.
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While singing at the piano, Virginia begins to bleed from her mouth, a symptom of untreated tuberculosis. Her illness grows progressively worse.
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Poe becomes a very popular lecturer on poetry
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Poe, his wife, and her mother move to New York City, where he gets a job at the New York Evening Mirror.
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The Raven is published and is a huge success
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Virginia Clemm dies
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