Alejandro, Jeremie F.

BSED 3-1A

TASK 3

Accomplish the timeline of the life of Edgar Allan Poe. Indicate your name and
course/section.

Year Event/s in his life

1809 - Edgar Allan Poe, (born January 19, 1809).

1826 – (Feb 14, 1826) When he enrol to College, Poe enrolls midway through the academic year
at the University of Virginia, which had opened less than a year before.

1827 - (May 26, 1827) Soldier and Published Author, Poe enlists in the U.S. Army under the
name "Edgar A. Perry." Shortly after, his first book a poetry collection entitled Tamerlane and
Other Poems is published. The author is listed only as "A Bostonian."

1829- (Feb 28, 1829) Death of Foster Mother

Poe's foster mother, Frances Allan, with whom he was still close, dies in Richmond. Poe by now
a sergeant major in the Army obtains leave to travel to her funeral.
(Apr 15, 1829) West Point, Poe is appointed to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. A few
months later he publishes his second book of poetry, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems.

1830- During the 1830s Poe's writing began to attract notice. He published stories in the
Philadelphia Courier, the Baltimore Sunday Visitor, and Godey's Ladies Book.
1831- West Point Reject & Emerging Writer, Tired of the military, Poe successfully attempts to
get himself kicked out of West Point. When he stops going to classes and chapel, Poe is court-
martialed and dismissed. He publishes several anonymous short stories plus another book of
poems.

Aug 1, 1831, Death of Brother, Edgar's older brother Henry dies of either tuberculosis or cholera
at the age of 27.

1835- Dec 1835, Southern Literary Messenger

Poe takes a job as editor of the Southern Literary Messenger magazine. He publishes critical
reviews of other writers' work as well as his own stories and poems.

1836 - May 16, 1836, Marriage Poe now 27 years old marries his thirteen-year-old
cousin, Virginia Clemm, at a ceremony in Richmond, Virginia.
1849 - Aug 1849, Engaged Again Poe travels to Richmond and convinces his childhood
sweetheart, Elmira Royster Shelton, to become his fiancée. He joins the Sons of Temperance, an
organization that forbids drinking (sort of like a nineteenth-century equivalent of Alcoholics
Anonymous). The next month, Poe travels to Baltimore.

Oct 7, 1849

Death

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.