Timeline Edgar Allan Poe

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• 1809 Edgar Allan Poe born in Boston Edgar Poe is born in Boston to the travelling actors David and Eliza Poe.
• 1811 Poe taken in by the Allans After his mother dies in Richmond, the two-year-old Edgar Poe is taken in by the merchant John Allan, whose name he later adds.
• 1826 Poe at the University of Virginia Edgar Allan Poe studies at the University of Virginia but leaves after one term, deep in gambling debts.
• 1827 Poe publishes Tamerlane Edgar Allan Poe's first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems, appears anonymously, credited to "a Bostonian". He enlists in the army the same year.
• 1830 Poe enters West Point Edgar Allan Poe enrols at the US Military Academy and gets himself dismissed early the following year.
• 1835 Poe edits the Southern Literary Messenger Edgar Allan Poe joins the Richmond magazine and makes his name as a sharp, feared literary critic.
• 1836 Poe marries Virginia Clemm Edgar Allan Poe marries his 13-year-old cousin Virginia Clemm in Richmond.
• 1839 Poe publishes The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe's tale of the doomed Usher family appears in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine.
• 1841 Poe publishes The Murders in the Rue Morgue Edgar Allan Poe introduces the detective C. Auguste Dupin in what is generally regarded as the first modern detective story.
• 1843 Poe publishes The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe's story of a murderer betrayed by a beating heart appears, and The Gold-Bug wins a newspaper prize.
• 1845 Poe publishes The Raven Edgar Allan Poe's poem appears in the New York Evening Mirror and makes him famous almost overnight.
• 1847 Poe's wife Virginia dies Virginia Poe dies of tuberculosis at 24 in the family cottage in Fordham, New York.
• 1848 Poe publishes Eureka Edgar Allan Poe publishes Eureka, a long prose poem on the nature of the universe.
• 1849 Edgar Allan Poe dies in Baltimore Found delirious in a Baltimore street days earlier, Edgar Allan Poe dies at 40. The cause of his death is still unknown.