POE - A BRIEF HISTORY
| 01/19/1809 | Born to actors Betty and David Poe
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| Sometime in 1812 | Orphaned and adopted by Mr. & Mrs. John Allan
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| 1816-1820 | Attends a boarding school in London
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| Midsummer 1827 | "Tamerlane and Other Poems" is published
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| 02/28/1829 | Mrs. John Allan dies
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| Summer 1830
| Enters West Point military academy
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| Early 1831
| Is court-martialed and discharged from West Point
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| Sometime 1831
| His brother William Henry dies and Poe moves in with his Aunt, Mrs. Clemm and cousin Virginia
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| 10/12/1833
| Poe wins $50 prize from 'Saturday Visiter' for 'MS. Found in a Bottle'
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| 05/16/1836
| Marries his 14-year-old cousin, Virginia
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| 1838
| Poe's 'Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym' is published in Harper's
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| 08/1838
| Poe moves his wife/cousin and Aunt to PA
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| 04/06/1844
| Poe works as editor of various magazines and diligently produces new work.
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| 01/29/1845
| 'The Raven' is published in The New York Mirror
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| 01/30/1847
| His young wife/cousin, Virginia, dies after many years of failing health
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| 02/1847-10/1849
| Various jobs and women...continues to produce work
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| 10/07/1849
| Poe, after suffereing for 5 days from a "brain fever", turns his head to the doctors and says, "Lord help my poor soul," and dies.
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| 10/09/1849
| Poe is buried in the Presbyterian Cemetary at Fayette and Green streets in Baltimore in a lot belonging to his grandfather, David Poe.
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| 1875
| His coffin is removed to the southeast corner of the cemetary where his monument now stands. |
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