Portal:Edgar Allan Poe/Calendar
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[edit] January
1840: Four installments of The Journal of Julius Rodman are released in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine; the novel will never be completed.
January 1 – "Edgar Perry" (the false name Poe used during his short military career) is promoted to Sergeant Major of artillery in 1829 while enlisted in the United States Army. It is the highest rank attainable by an enlisted man.
January 3 – In 1846, Edgar Allan Poe produced the final issue of the Broadway Journal in New York City. It was the only literary journal he actually owned, though his full ownership lasted only about four months.
January 6 – In 1832, French illustrator Gustave Doré is born. His last published work will be 26 engravings illustrating Poe's poem "The Raven."
January 7 – Poe is baptized as Episcopalian in 1812 by Reverend John Buchanan with the name "Edgar Allan Poe" with John and Frances Allan taking the role of Godparents.
January 14 – The first known short story published by Edgar Allan Poe is in the Saturday Courier on January 14, 1832. The story, "Metzengerstein," depicts a vengeful horse putting to end a long-standing family rivalry.
January 18 – George Rex Graham is born in 1813. At age 27, Graham would start Graham's Magazine and, in 1841, Poe is hired as an editor. Though Graham and Poe had a relatively friendly relationship, Poe left the magazine just over a year later.
January 19 – Edgar Poe is born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1809 to traveling actors Eliza Arnold Poe (who had received rave reviews for her performances) and David Poe, Jr. (who consistently received less than stellar reviews).
January 20 – Nathaniel Parker Willis (pictured) is born on this date in 1806 and dies on the same day in 1867. The good-natured Willis would be the first to publish "The Raven" and often asked Poe to be less severe in his literary critiques.
January 23 – Gustave Doré dies on this day in 1883. Doré, a well-known French illustrator, his last work, published a year after his death in London, is a series of 26 steel engravings of Poe’s "The Raven."
January 29 – One of Poe’s most well-known poems, "The Raven," is first published in 1845 in the New York Evening Mirror. An instant success, the refrain of "nevermore" and the opening line "Once upon a midnight dreary" have now become common knowledge.
January 30 – Poe’s young wife Virginia Clemm Poe dies after a lengthy battle with tuberculosis in 1847 while the family was living in the Bronx, New York. In 1875, her body was reburied in Baltimore next to her husband.
[edit] February
1826: Poe enters the University of Virginia to study languages.
February 3 - In 1848, Poe presents a lecture that will eventually become Eureka: A Prose Poem.
February 8 – In 1831, Poe is tried for gross neglect of duty and disobeying orders, charges he purposely brought upon himself so that he could leave the United States Military Academy at West Point.
February 14 – Poe’s poem "A Valentine," dedicated to Frances Sargent Osgood (pictured), is read at a private literary salon at the home of Anne Lynch in 1846. Poe did not attend but the poem was written specifically for the event.
February 15 – Rufus Wilmot Griswold, best known today for his vicious attempts to defame Poe’s character after Poe’s death, is born in Benson, Vermont in 1815.
February 21 – Poe’s "A Valentine," a poem written for Frances Sargent Osgood (pictured), is published in the New York Evening Mirror in 1846, one week after it was read at a literary salon.
February 22 – Poe becomes an editor of the Broadway Journal in 1845. He would later become part owner, then full owner, before the journal fails.
February 25 – Poe’s poem "Romance" first appears under that title in the February 25, 1843 issue of the Philadelphia Saturday Museum. It was previously known as "Preface" and "Introduction" in previous Poe collections.
February 28 – Poe’s doting foster mother Frances Allan dies in Richmond in 1829 while Poe is in the Army. Poe does not make it home until after she is buried.
[edit] March
1835: "Berenice" is released in the Southern Literary Messenger
March 6 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning is born on this date in 1806. A popular poet in England during Poe’s day, Poe dedicated his collection The Raven and Other Poems to her in 1845. – Poe is officially dismissed from military service from West Point in 1830. In Philadelphia, Poe meets English author Charles Dickens in 1842.
March 17 – The newspaper Flag of Our Union prints "Hop-Frog" in 1849. The story is one of gruesome revenge and is the second Poe tale to feature orangutans.
March 18 – In 1842, Stephane Mallarmé is born in Paris. Mallarmé would make an important French translation of "The Raven" in 1875.
March 27 – John Allan, Poe’s wealthy foster father, dies in Richmond in 1834. Poe receives no inheritance.
[edit] April
1835: First publication of "Morella" in April’s Southern Literary Messenger
1841: First publication of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (pictured in an illustration by Aubrey Beardsley) in Graham's Magazine; it is the first modern detective story.
April 7 – The Poe family moves to New York City in 1844.
April 9 – Charles Baudelaire is born in Paris. A known poet and critic in France, he introduced French translations of Poe’s work which went on to have a significant impact on French literature.
April 13 – Poe publishes the article now known as "The Balloon-Hoax," about the Atlantic Ocean being crossed in 3 days in a hot-air balloon called "The Victoria." Its publisher, The New York Sun, issues a retraction two days later.
April 15 – Poe, Sergeant Major for artillery, is discharged from the army in 1829 after securing a replacement to finish his enlisted term on his behalf. Poe offers a large amount of money for his replacement, but likely never pays.
April 20 – The poem "Serenade" is printed in the 1833 issue of the Baltimore Saturday Visiter with the name "E. A. Poe." Never collected in Poe’s lifetime, it was not anthologized until 1917.
[edit] May
1840: First publication of "The Philosophy of Furniture" in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine
May 12 – In 1850, Frances Sargent Osgood dies of tuberculosis. Poe and Osgood had exchanged romantic letters and poetry in 1845, despite both being married.
May 16 – In 1836, Poe has a secret ceremony to marry his cousin Virginia Clemm.
May 22 – The poem "The Sleeper" is published on this date in 1841 in Philadelphia's Saturday Courier. It had previously appeared as early as 1831 as "Irene." In a letter to James Russell Lowell in 1844, Poe called it one of his best compositions.
May 26 – Under the assumed name of "Edgar A. Perry," Poe enlists in the United States Army in 1827.
[edit] June
1835: First publication of "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaal" in the Southern Literary Messenger
1976: Alan Parsons Project releases the concept album Tales of Mystery and Imagination
June 6 – A prospectus for The Penn magazine appears in the Saturday Evening Post in 1840. Poe’s dream of owning his own journal, later renamed as The Stylus, would never come to be.
June 18 – In Boston, Frances Sargent Osgood is born in 1811. Osgood would later have a very public flirtation with Poe through letters and poems, though Poe’s wife Virginia was still alive.
June 21 – The first half of "The Gold-Bug" is published in Philadelphia's Dollar Newspaper in 1843. One of Poe's "tales of ratiocination," the newspaper awarded it a $100 prize for a writing contest.
June 22 – Roger Corman's first Edgar Allan Poe film adaptation, House of Usher, is released in American theatres in 1960. Vincent Price played the role of Roderick Usher in a film that, like other Corman/Price collaborations soon to come, bears only a slight resemblance to the source material.
June 22 - John and Frances Allan along with Poe and Frances's younger sister Anne (Nancy) Moore Valentine board the Lothair to move to England in 1815.
June 27 – Sarah Helen Whitman dies in Providence in 1878. Whitman had become engaged to Poe late in his life, after he vowed to avoid alcohol, though the wedding never took place. Poe’s poem "To Helen" is dedicated to her.
June 29 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning dies in Florence, Italy on this day in 1861. Browning, a popular poet in England, praised "The Raven" after is publication. Poe responded by dedicating his 1845 collection The Raven and Other Poems to her.
[edit] July
1838: Poe's only finished novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is released in New York by Harper & Brothers.
July 4 – Fellow American author Nathaniel Hawthorne is born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. Poe would review many of Hawthorne’s early works and would, in particular, praise his short stories.
July 7 – Elizabeth Cairnes Poe, mother of Maria Clemm and Poe’s grandmother, dies in Baltimore in 1835. Elizabeth had been receiving a pension from the government for her husband's, "General" David Poe, involvement in the American Revolution.
July 14 – Poe begins a lecture tour to raise money for The Stylus in Richmond in 1849.
July 19 – Poe's short story "The Mask of the Red Death" is published with its now-standard title "The Masque of the Red Death" in the July 19, 1845 issue of the Broadway Journal.
July 22 – On this date in 1820, Poe and the Allans board the Martha to return to America after five years in England.
[edit] August
August 1 – William Henry Leonard Poe, Edgar’s older brother, dies of tuberculosis in Baltimore in 1831.
August 8 – The earliest known dramatization of a Poe work, "The Gold-Bug," opens at the American theatre in Philadelphia in 1843, adapted by Silas S. Steele.
August 12 – Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Poe’s bitter enemy who published a very negative biography of Poe after Poe’s death, dies himself in 1857 in New York City.
August 12 – One of the earliest films related to Poe, The Raven, is released in 1915.
August 22 – Virginia Clemm (pictured) is born in 1822 in Baltimore. The daughter of Maria Clemm (Poe’s aunt on his father’s side), she was Poe’s first cousin and, later, his wife.
August 27 – In 1849, Poe signs a pledge with the Sons of Temperance, promising to completely abstain from drinking alcohol.
August 31 – French translator of Poe's works Charles Baudelaire dies in 1867 at the age of 46.
[edit] September
1839: "The Fall of the House of Usher'" is printed in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine (the cover of that issue is pictured).
September 11 - The Simpsons episode "Lisa's Rival" debuts in 1994, featuring a scene inspired by "The Tell-Tale Heart." The episode ends with Lisa sabotaging a fellow student's project (a diorama depicting Poe's story) by hiding it in the floor-boards.
September 18 – One of Poe’s most well-known stories about "the death of a beautiful woman" (which Poe called "the most poetical topic in the world") "Ligeia" is published in the American Museum magazine in 1838. Poe is paid $10 for the work.
September 19 - In 1876, Calvin F. S. Thomas dies on this date. At age 19, Thomas printed in Boston Poe's first published work, Tamerlane and Other Poems, attributed only "By a Bostonian".
September 22 – Poe takes out a marriage license for himself and his cousin Virginia Clemm in 1835. She is 13 at the time, though the marriage certificate claims she is 21.
September 30 - The independent film The Death of Poe had its world premiere at the Festival of Fantastic Films in Manchester, United Kingdom in 2006.
[edit] October
1844: The Columbian Magazine publishes "The Angel of the Odd," a humorous temperance tale.
October 3 – In 1849, Poe is found delirious and possibly wearing someone else's clothing outside of Ryan's Tavern in Baltimore. Unable to explain his circumstances, he is brought to the hospital by concerned acquaintances.
October 5 – Poe's foster father John Allan marries his second wife, Louisa Gabriella Patterson, in 1830 (about 19 months after the death of Frances Allan).
October 7 – After a few days in a hospital in Baltimore, Poe dies under mysterious circumstances in 1849. Theories about the cause of his death include rabies, cholera, tuberculosis, a brain hemorrhage, diabetes, heart disease, murder, suicide, a drug overdose, or alcohol poisoning.
October 9 – The "Ludwig" obituary, written by Poe’s enemy Rufus Wilmot Griswold, is published in 1849 in the New York Tribune. The famous article announces Poe’s death and that "few will be grieved by it."
October 10 – Poe’s second poem to carry the title "To Helen," dedicated to Sarah Helen Whitman, is published in the New York Daily Tribute in 1849. The original manuscript had been sent to Whitman in 1848 and had been published previously without a complete title.
October 24 – Poe becomes the sole proprietor of the Broadway Journal after buying out his partner with $50 (on loan from Horace Greeley) in 1845. It is the closest he gets to achieve his dream of starting his own magazine The Stylus.
October 26 – Poe’s story "MS. Found in a Bottle" is released in 1833 in the Baltimore Saturday Visiter. The story was one of several Poe submitted for a writing contest, and "MS. Found in a Bottle" won the top prize of $50.
October 26-28 – A young Edgar serves as a lieutenant in the Richmond Junior Volunteers during the Richmond visit of General Lafayette in 1824.
[edit] November
1846: First publication of "The Cask of Amontillado" in Godey’s Lady’s Book (pictured is a 1919 illustration by Harry Clarke)
November 3 - Fellow American poet William Cullen Bryant is born in 1794.
November 8 – Under the pseudonym "Edgar Perry," Poe and the rest of his Army regiment travels to their new assignment at Fort Moultrie in Charleston, South Carolina aboard the Waltham in 1827.
November 17 – A new memorial monument (pictured) is erected in Baltimore's Westminster Hall and Burying Ground to honor Edgar Allan Poe in 1875. Poe's body was moved from the back of the church after a city-wide fundraising campaign to support the project.
November 19 – Poe’s collection The Raven and Other Poems is published in New York by Wiley & Putnum in 1845.
[edit] December
1829: Poe's second collection, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems, is published in Baltimore by Hutch & Dunning.
1845: The American Review: A Whig Journal publishes "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar"
December 15 – In 1828, Poe and his Army battery arrive at Fort Monroe in Virginia.
December 20 – Rosalie Poe, Edgar’s younger sister, is born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1810. She will be adopted by William and Jane Scott Mackenzie in Richmond when Poe is taken in by the Allan family.
December 24 – Poe planned to marry Sarah Helen Whitman (pictured) on this date in 1848, though the wedding would never take place. Poe had promised her that he would not drink alcohol and an anonymous note told Whitman he had broken that vow.
