Poe

Edgar Allan Poe's Life	American Political and Cultural History
1809 (Jan. 19) Edgar Poe is born in Boston (PM)	Treaty of Fort Wayne signed, giving U.S. over 3 million acres of Indian land. (HWT)
1811 (Dec. 8) Elizabeth Arnold Poe, Edgar’s mother, dies in Richmond, VA. David Poe, Edgar’s father dies within a few days of his wife. (PC) (Dec. 26) Edgar is taken into the home of John and Francis Allan (PC)	Work is begun on the first national roadway (HWT) (Nov. 7) Battle of Tippecanoe. (TAL)
1812	The United States declares war on Britain (HWT)
1814 Five-year old Edgar begins his formal education (PC)	British troops burn much of Washington D.C. and The Library of Congress is destroyed (HWT) The Treaty of Ghent ends the War of 1812 (HWT) “The Star Spangled Banner” composed (PM)
1815 (June 22)- Poe’s family moves to England (PC)	(January 8) Unaware that the War of 1812 has ended, the British attack Andrew Jackson in New Orleans, losing 2,036 soldiers. U. S. casualties include eight killed and 13 wounded. (TAL)
1816	Indiana is the 19th state admitted to the union (HWT) James Monroe is elected the fifth president of the United States (HWT)
1817	The Seminole War begins on the border between the U.S. and Spanish Florida (HWT) Mississippi gains statehood (HWT)
1818	Illinois becomes the 21st state (HWT)
1819	Spain surrenders Florida to the U.S. (HWT)
1820 (July 22) Edgar and his family return to America from England (PC)	The U.S. Senate passes the Missouri Compromise (HWT)
1821	Missouri joins the Union (HWT)
1822	The first tuition free high school in the U.S. opens in Boston (HWT)
1823	President James Monroe drafts the Monroe Doctrine (HWT)
1824	Congress passes the Tariff Act of 1824 (HWT)
1825 ( March 26) John Allan inherits a fortune from his uncle (PC) (June 28) John Allan buys the Moldavia mansion for his family (PC)	John Quincy Adams is elected president of the U.S. (HWT) The Erie Canal is completed (HWT) The NY Stock Exchange opens (HWT)
1826 (Feb 14) Poe enters the University of Virginia (PC)	The American Society for the Promotion of Temperance is founded, as a passion for moral reform sweeps the land. (HWT)
1827 Poe enlists in the Army Poe’s first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems, is published in Boston (PC)	The Second Great Awakening, a period of religious revivalism, sweeps the U.S. (HWT) Ludwig van Beethoven dies (PM)
1828	Andrew Jackson elected President Construction starts on the Ohio and Baltimore railroad, beginning a time of railroad building in the United States (HWT)
1829 (Feb. 28) Francis Allan, Poe’s foster mother, dies in Richmond (PC) (April 15) Poe is released from the army (PC) (Dec.) Poe’s second book, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems, is published in Baltimore (PC)	Photographer Louis Daguerre invents the daguerreotype (HWT)
1830 (Oct. 5) John Allan marries Louisa Patterson (PC) (June) Poe enters West Point (PM)	Joseph Smith founds the Mormon church (HWT) Pres. Jackson sign the Indian Removal Act, authorizing the government to move eastern Indians to western lands (HWT)
1831 (March 6) Poe is dismissed from West Point (PC) Poe’s Poems is published in New York (PM) (Aug. 1) William Henry Leonard Poe, Edgar's older brother dies (PC)
1833	The American Anti-Slavery Society is founded in Philadelphia (HWT)
1834 (March 27) John Allan, Poe’s foster father, dies in Richmond. Poe inherits nothing of the large estate. (PC)	Twenty-eight million acres of public lands will be offered for sale in a land boom in the United States. (HWT)
1836 Poe becomes editor of the Southern Literary Messenger, the first of his many editing jobs (PC) (May 16) Poe (age 27) and Virginia (age 13) marry in Richmond (PC)	The Massachusetts Supreme Court rules that any slave brought within the state's borders can be regarded as freed. (HWT) The transcendentalist movement develops in the United States. (HWT) Battle of the Alamo (PM)
1837 Poe moves his family to New York (PC)	About one-third of New York's laboring population is unemployed during the depression following the year's financial panic. (HWT)
1838 (July) Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is published in New York (PC)	Northern abolitionists organize the Underground Railroad (HWT)
1840 Poe's Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (two volumes) is published in Philadelphia. (PC)
1841 (April) Graham's Magazine features Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," the first modern detective story (PC)	President William Henry Harrison dies after one month in office, and is succeeded by Vice President John Tyler (HWT)
1842	U.S. Army lieutenant John Charles Fremont maps out the Oregon Trail. (HWT) The Supreme Court rules that the owner of a fugitive slave may do anything to regain the slave, including kidnapping, but that state officials are not obliged to help slaveholders track runaways.(HWT)
1843 (July) Poe's Prose Romances is published in Philadelphia (PC) The Telltale Heart is published (PM)	Second Seminole War ends (TAL) First telegraph line (PM)
1844 (April 7) Poe and his family move to New York. (PC)	James K. Polk elected president of the United States (HWT)
1845 (Jan. 29) Poe's most famous poem, "The Raven" is published in the New York Evening Mirror, where it becomes a sensational hit.(PC) (Nov. 19) Poe's Tales and The Raven and Other Poems are published (PC)	Texas becomes the 28th state (HWT)
1846	Congress declares the Mexican War on May 13 (HWT) A rush of Irish immigrants comes into the U.S. (HWT)
1847- Poe's The Cask of Amontillado published (PM)
1848 (July) Poe’s poem Eureka is published (PC) (Nov.) Poe is engages to Sarah Whitman, she calls off the engagement in Dec, due to his inability to practice temperance (PC)	The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the Mexican War. Mexico gives up California and all land north of the Rio Grande (HWT) The first Women's Rights Convention in the U.S. opens at Seneca Falls.(HWT)
1849 (August) Poe gets engaged to his past sweetheart Elmira Shelton (PC) (Oct. 7) - Edgar Allan Poe dies in Baltimore (PC)	The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill brings a gold rush of roughly 7,000 Forty-Niners to California, whose population will increase by 20 times to 300,000 over the next seven years (HWT)
1850 The first two volumes of Griswold's collected Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe are published (PC)
1860 Sarah Helen Whitman, Poe's former fiancee, publishes a defense of Poe in a book called Edgar Poe and His Critics (PC)
1910 Poe is inducted into the Hall of Fame in New York (PC)