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Edgar Allan Poe is Born.
He was born in Boston, MA. -
Poe's Sister is Born
Her name is Rosalie Mackenzie Poe. -
Poe's Parent's Die
His father, David Poe, Jr. was an actor.
His mother, Elizabeth Arnold Poe, was an actress.
They both died from tuberculosis within days apart from each other. -
Poe Writes His First Poem
"Last night, with many cares & toils oppres'd,/ Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest." -
Poe enlists in the U.S. Army and shortly after his first book is published.
He enlists in the U.S. Army under the name "Edgar A. Perry."
His first book was a collection of poems called Tamerlane and Other Poems. The author is listed as "A Bostonian." -
Poe’s older brother dies.
His borther Henry also dies of tuberculosis. -
Poe marries his thirteen year old cousin, Virginia Clemm.
At the age of 27, Poe marries his 13 year old cousin, Virginia Clemm, at a ceremony in Richmond, Virginia. -
Poe writes his first novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.
The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaling ship called the Grampus. Various adventures and misadventures befall Pym, including shipwreck, mutiny, and cannibalism. -
Poe's story collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is published in two volumes
Sometime after 1835, having failed to find a publisher, Poe abandoned his proposed Tales of the Folio Club, but not the idea of a collected edition of his prose fiction. Dropping the apparatus of a literary club, and the “burlesques upon criticism,” he combined the original tales with additional items which had appeared in the pages of the Southern Literary Messenger. This new collection of 25 stories became Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. By September of 1839, he had finally convinced a -
Poe publishes the poem, The Raven.
"The Raven" appeared in the Evening Mirror and became a popular sensation. Though it made Poe a household name almost instantly,[61] he was paid only $9 for its publication.[62] It was concurrently published in The American Review: A Whig Journal under the pseudonym "Quarles" -
Poe's wife Virginia dies of tuberculosis at their home in the Bronx.
Poe has been so despondent during the final months of her illness that friends thought he was going insane. The loss of his wife sends Poe into a downward spiral of alcoholism. -
Edgar Allen Poe Dies.
After being found unconscious in a Baltimore gutter, Edgar Allan Poe is taken to the hospital and pronounced dead of causes still unknown. He is buried at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Baltimore