Edgar Allen Poe

  • Edgar Allen Poe is born

  • Poe's sister is born

  • Poe's parents die

  • poe writes his first poem

  • Poe inlists in the U.S Army and shortly after his first book is published

  • Poe's older brother dies.

  • Poe marries his thirteen year old cousin

  • Poe writes his first novel- The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym

  • Poe's story collectionTales of Grotesqueand Arabesque is publushed in two volumes

  • Poe publishes the poem, The Raven

  • Poe's wife Virginia dies of tubercilosis at their home in the Bronx

  • Edgar Allen Poe dies.