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Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on January 17th
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Poe's mother dies and a few days later, so does his father. Then Poe is adopted by John Allan.
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The Allans have Poe baptized on January 7th.
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Poe begins his schooling.
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The Allans leave for England.
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Poe goes to boarding schcol in England.
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The Allans move back to America. They stop in New York for a few days, then return to Richmand.
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~Poe swims against a heavy tide up the James river for like 6 or 7 miles.
~He also wrote a two line poem that wasn't published. -
~Poe enters the University or Virginia in Charlottesville.
~When Poe returns home, he finds his childhood sweatheart is engaged. -
~Poes foster-mother dies......he got leave to come home.
~Poes second book, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlne, and Minor Poems, is published in Baltimore
~He was promoted to Sargeant Major or the Regiment of Artillery.
~Poe is discharged
~Poe writes an untitled poem in a friend's album, today it is known as the poem, "Alone" -
~John Allan remarries.
~Poe enters West Point. -
~Poe deliberately get dismissed from West Point, on March 6th.
~Poe published the book Poems in New York.
~In July, Poe submits serveral stories to the Philidelphia Saturday Courier for a contest, but he doesnt win. Later on they publish five stories he submitte, but didnt identify the author.
~In August his brother dies in Baltimore. -
John Allan (Poes foster father) dies, leaving nothing to Poe
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~Poe applies for a teaching job at a school in Baltimore. He doesnt get the job
~He then leaves Baltimore, moves to Richmand -
On May 16th, Poe marries his cousin Virginia Clemm in Richmond. Clemm was only 13.
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~Poe gets dismissed from the editorial position at the Southern Literary Messenger.
~He then moves himself and his family to New York. -
In May, Poe becomes the editor of Gentleman's Magazine.
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~Poe published Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque(two volumes) in Philidelphia
~In January when Poe's story "Journal of Julius Rodman" is mistaken for a true story when it was first published. -
~Philidelphia's Saturday Evening Post announces that in April Poe will become editor of of Graham's Magazine.
~The magazine then features Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" the first modern detective story. -
~Poe signs an agreement with Thomas Cottrell to continue with another magazine, which Poe referred to as The Stylus.
~The first biography of Poe was published appeared in Philidelphia Saturday Courier. It had alot of errors in it. Some people believe that Poe purposefully gave false or inaccurate materials of himself. -
~Poe then became the editor of The Broadway Journal. By October, he has been promoted to the sole owner and editor of the magazine.
~"The Raven" Poe;s poem appears in the New York Evening Mirror. It earns Poe a great deal of fame and he was paid $15.00 by the Mirror. -
~The Brodaway Journal, because of financial problems, is forced to shut-down.
~Poe and his family move to a cottage in Fordham, New York. -
~Poe's wife, Virginia, dies in January from tuberculosis.
~Poe visits Baltimore, while there he meets with Robert D'Unger. Who notes that Poe is really depressed about the death of his wife. -
~Poe begans to talk to a New England widow and poet named Sarah Helen Whitman. She agrees to marry him, after he signed a pledge to srop drinking. But in December, he went back on his word and she breaks off the engagment.
~Poe visits D'Unger in Baltimore, in the summer. -
~In Richmond, Poe runs into his childhood sweetheart, Amanda Royster. She agreed to marry him even thought she lost a great deal of money, left by her late husband.
~Poe leaves for Baltimore. He arrived the next day.
~On October 3rd, Poe is found unconcious on the street and taken to Corneilius Ryan"s "4th Ward Polls" a tavern at Gunner"s Hall, on East Lombard Street.
~October 7th, Poe died in Baltiomre.At Westminster Burial Ground on the 8th or 9th Poe was buried. -
~Kafka is born in Prague, Bohemia
~He is the first of six children for Hermann and Julie Lowy Kafka, middle-class Jewish parents. -
Kafka attends the German-language elementary school in Prague
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~Kafka enrolls at Charles-Ferdinand University
~After two weeks as a chemistry major, he switches to law. Kafka flourishes in the university's literary clubs and meets fellow writers (and lifelong friends) like Max Brod -
~Kafka receives his law degree from Charles-Ferdinand
~He spends a year as an unpaid intern in the criminal courts. -
~Kafka accepts his first job as a clerk at Assicurazioni Generali
~The job is boring, and his night shift makes it hard to keep up with his writing, Kafka hates it. -
~Kafka resigns from the insurance agency
~Two weeks later, he finds work at a government job handling workers' compensation insurance
~His first published short stories appear in Hyperion magazine. -
~Kafka begins a period of exploration into his Jewish identity, as well as his literary vocation. He attends lectures and theater performances that focus on Jewish issues and writes intensely
~He begins his novel Amerika. -
~Kafka meets a woman named Felice Bauer at the home of his friend Max Brod.
~The two develop a romantic relationship conducted mostly by mail. Kafka writes her more than 500 letters during their five-year relationship. -
Kafka's first book, an anthology of his short stories entitled Contemplation, is published
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Kafka publishes the short stories "The Judgment" and "The Stoker."
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Kafka writes the novel The Trial, about a man persecuted for an unknown crime. It is not published until after his death.
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~Kafka proposes to Felice Bauer, but breaks off the engagement just three months later
~They rekindle their relationship the following year. -
Kafka publishes his most famous work, the novella Metamorphosis. The story, in which the main character wakes up to find himself transformed into an insect, becomes a classic analogy of alienation and displacement
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Kafka and Felice Bauer become engaged for a second time
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~Kafka begins coughing up blood, the first symptom of the tuberculosis
~He takes a leave of absence from his work while his sister Ottilie takes care of him -
Kafka breaks off his engagement to Felice Bauer for the second and last time
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~Kafka stays in a sanitorium north of Prague, hoping to recover from his tuberculosis
~He becomes engaged to a woman named Julie Wohryzková, though that relationship also ends
~After his father Hermann expresses disapproval of the engagement, Kafka writes the missive, aptly entitled Letter to His Father, to address their troubled relationship -
~Kafka's condition worsens, and he moves to a sanitorium in Italy
~He continues his writing, publishing the short story collection A Country Doctor
~He begins another romantic relationship over letters with a married Czech journalist named Milena Jesenská. -
~Kafka begins writing the novel The Castle. By August, however, his health has declined to the point where he must set aside the book and retire from writing
~He writes to his friend and literary executor, Max Brod, asking him to burn all of his papers after his death, save for a few selected stories. -
~Kafka takes a holiday to the Baltic Sea, where he meets a Polish woman, Dora Diamant. The two fall in love, and their relationship lasts until Kafka's death.
~He is able to write a few more short stories. -
Franz Kafka dies of complications from tuberculosis at his home in Prague at the age of 40. He is buried in the Jewish cemetery in Prague.
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~Having ignored Kafka's instructions to destroy his papers, Max Brod ushers into publication a short story collection entitled The Hunger Artist
~Many more posthumous stories, novels and letters follow, giving Kafka the literary fame in death that he never had during his life -
Kafka's novel The Trial is published.
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Kafka's novel The Castle is published
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Kafka's novel Amerika is published
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~The journals and notebooks that Kafka's lover, Dora Diamant, kept against his wishes are confiscated from her apartment during a Gestapo raid
~Despite an extensive international search, the papers have never been found.
