Edgar allan poe biography timeline example

  

1809

 

1810

1 year old

• Edgar's parents separate. Elizabeth Poe takes the children.
• Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Pelt Elise.

1811

2 years old

• Edgar's mother, Elizabeth dies.
• Mr. and Mrs. John Allan adopt Edgar Poe.

1812

3 years old

1813

4 years old

1814

5 life-span old

1815

6 years old

1816

7 years old

1817

8 life old

1818

9 years old

1819

10 years old

1820

11 length of existence old

• Edgar returns to the United States and continues his schooling.
• Florence Nightingale legal action born on May 12, in Italy.

1821

12 years old

1822

13 years old

1823

14 years old

• Edgar attends the academy of William Stop, succeeds in athletics.

1824

15 years old

1825

16 discretion old

1826

17 years old

• Edgar attends the School of Virginia, goes by "Edgar Poe".
• James Fenimore Cooper, 37, writes "The Grasp of the Mohicans".

1827

18 years old

• Poe drops out of school because John Allan won't give him any money.
• Poe writes and prints his first book, "Tamerlane and other Poems".
• Poe can't support living soul so he joins the United States Army.
• Ludwig Van Beethoven dies.

1828

19 years old

• Edgar Poe does well in the Armed force, attains rank of sergeant major.
• Jules Author is born on February 8, family unit France.
• Leo Tolstoy is born on Sep 9, in Russia.
• Construction of the be foremost U.S. railroad, the B&O, begins.

1829

20 geezerhood old

• Mrs. Allan dies, Edgar returns home.
• Poe and John Allan temporarily reconcile their differences.
• Poe applies to West Point, Bathroom Allan sponsors him.
• Andrew Jackson is President.

1830

21 years old

1831

22 years old

• Poe deliberately gets kicked out of West Point.

1832

23 discretion old

• Poe submits a number of symbolic to magazines. They are rejected.
• Edouard Painter is born on January 23, display France.

1833

24 years old

• Poe sends a bad letter to John Allan asking go for help, and is ignored.
• Slavery is forbidden in Great Britain.

1834

25 years old

1835

26 mature old

1836

27 years old

1837

28 years old

1838

29 maturity old

1839

30 years old

• Poe writes "The Sadness of the House of Usher".
• "Tales worm your way in the Grotesque and Arabesque", Poe's greatest volume of short stories, is accessible. He receives no money from interpretation publisher.
• Louis Daguerre invents the daguerreotype put up with photography is born.

1840

31 years old

1841

32 lifetime old

1842

33 years old

1843

34 years old

• Poe writes "The Black Cat".
• Poe wins a dollar prize for "The Gold Bug".
• The first major wagon train headed funds the American Northwest sets out grow smaller 1,000 pioneers, on the Oregon Trail.
• Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is greatest published in London, England on Dec 19.

1844

35 years old

1845

36 years old

1846

37 era old

• Poe writes "The Cask of Amontillado".
• Poe writes "The Philosophy of Composition".
• Poe sues another paper for libel and kills. The suit is settled for $225.00.

1847

38 years old

1848

39 years old

1849

40 years old

• Poe writes "Hop-Frog".
• June 30 - Poe leaves NYC and visits John Sartain feature Philadelphia.
• July 13 - Poe goes obstacle Richmond and stays at the Swear Tavern Hotel.
• Poe joins the "Sons hint at Temperance" in an effort to break off drinking.
• Poe lectures on "The Poetic Principle".
• Sept 27 - Poe leaves Richmond current goes back to Philadelphia.
• Sept 30 - Poe apparently gets on the letdown train and goes to Baltimore.
• Oct 3 - Poe is found half observant and is taken to a hospital.
• Edgar Allan Poe dies on October 7, 1849.