| Timeline |
| 1809 |
Born 19 January in Boston, Mass to David Poe Jr. and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins |
| 1811 |
Both parents dead by third birthday, he is taken into the home of John Allan, and baptised Edgar Allan Poe |
| 1815 |
Studies for five years in England |
| 1825 |
Secretly engaged to Sarah Royster |
| 1826 |
Enters U of Virginia, leaves after only a year |
| 1827 |
Lenore |
| 1827 |
Tamerlane and Other Poems, enlists in U.S. Army as "Edgar A. Perry" |
| 1829 |
Discharged from army in March, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems, Poems, Ms. Found in a Bottle |
| 1831 |
Poems by Edgar A. Poe ... Second Edition, The Assignation, King Pest |
| 1832 |
Philadelphia Saturday Courier publishes five stories |
| 1833 |
Ms. Found in a Bottle wins prize in Baltimore Saturday Visitor |
| 1834 |
Berenice, Silence-A Fable |
| 1835 |
Moves to Richmond to join the Southern Literary Messenger's editorial staff, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket |
| 1836 |
Marries Virginia Clemm (age 13) |
| 1837 |
Libeia, resigns from Messenger, moves to NY |
| 1838 |
William Wilson, The Fall of the House of Usher, Murders in the Rue Morgue, moves to Philadelphia |
| 1839 |
A Descent Into The Maelstrom, The Pit and the Pendulum |
| 1841 |
The Masque of the Red Death, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt |
| 1842 |
The Black Cat, The Conqueror Worm, The Tale-tell Heart (approx dating) |
| 1843 |
The Gold Bug, The Purloined Letter, The Raven, The Imp of the Perverse |
| 1844 |
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar |
| 1845 |
The Cask of Amontillado, Mellonta Tauta, Eureka: A Prose Poem |
| 1847 |
Virginia Clemm Poe dies on 30 January |
| 1849 |
Poe dies 7 October in Baltimore |
