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Jr Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston.
The second child of English-born actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and actor David Poe Jr Egdar Allan Poe was born. -
Poe's father abandoned the family.
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Poe's mother died a year later from consumption.
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Poe was taken into the home of John Allan, a successful Scotish merchant in Richmond.
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The Allan family had Poe baptized in the Episcopal Church.
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The family, including Poe and Allan's wife sailed to Britain.
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Poe moved back with the Allan's to Richmond.
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Poe served as the lieutenant of the Richmond youth honor guard as Richmond celeberated the visit of the Marquis de Lafayette.
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John Allan\s uncle and business benefactor William Galt, died and left Allan several acres of real estate.
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Allan celebrated his expansive wealth by purchasing a two-story brick home named Moldavia.
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Poe travelled to Boston sustaining himself with add jobs as a clerk and newspaper writer.
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Poe enlisted in the United States Army as a private.
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Poe's regiment was posted to Fort Moultrie in Charleston, South Carolina and travelled by ship on the brig Waltham.
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Poe finally was discharged.
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Poe travelled to West Point and matriculated as a cadet.
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John Allan married his second wife, Louisa Patterson.
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Poe was tried for gross neglect of duty and disobedience of orders for refusing to attend formations, classes or church.
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Poe left for New York and released a thirf volume of poems, simply titled Poems.
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Poe returned to Baltimore.
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The Baltimore Saturday Visiter awarded Poe a prize for his short "Ms.Found in a Bottle".
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Poe became assistant editor of the periodical.
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Poe became assistant editor of Burton's Gentleman Magazine. The collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque was published in two volumes, though he made little money off of it and it received mixed reviews.
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Poe published a prospectus announcing his intentions to start his own journal "The Stylus".
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His poem "The Raven" appeared in the Evening Mirror and became a popular sensation.
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Edgar Allan Poe died.
