Edgar Allan Poe | Timeline

Edgar Allan Poe (né Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States, and of American literature. He was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story, and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre, as well as a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction. He is the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. (Intro from Wikipedia)

January 19, 1809 - Boston, Massachusetts - Edgar Poe is born

December 8, 1811 - Richmond, Virginia - Elizabeth Arnold, Edgar Allan Poe's mother, dies of tuberculosis, aged 24. Her children are split up. Edgar is taken in by John and Frances Allen

January(?) 1(?), 1815 - Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland - Grammar School in Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland, birthplace of his adoptive father, John Allan

January(?) 1(?), 1816 - London, England - Rejoins the Allans in London. Enrolled at a boarding school in Chelsea

January(?) 1(?), 1820 - Richmond - Moves back to Richmond with the Allans

January(?) 1(?), 1824 - Richmond - Serves as the lieutenant of the Richmond youth honor guard as the city celebrated the visit of the Marquis de Lafayette

March 1(?), 1825 - Richmond - Allan's uncle and business benefactor William Galt dies, leaving Allan several acres of real estate

February 1(?), 1826 - Richmond - Registered at the University of Virginia to study ancient and modern languages. Secretly engaged to Sarah Emira Royster, his 15-year-old neighbor

March 1(?), 1827 - Richmond - Leaves the University of Virginia

April 1(?), 1827 - Boston, Massachusetts - Moves to Boston and begins working as a clerk for wholesale merchandise warehouse on the waterfront, then as an office clerk and reporter for the "Weekly Report" =(START)

May 27, 1827 - Boston - Enlists in the US Army as a private. Assigned to the 1st Regiment of Artillery at Boston Harbor's Fort Independence

July 1(?), 1827 - Boston - His first collection of poems "Tamerlane and other Poems" is published

November 8, 1827 - Charlston, South Carolina - Poe's regiment is posted to Fort Moultrie in Charlston, South Carolina

April 15, 1829 - Baltimore, Maryland - Discharged from the army. Moves to Baltimore to stay with his widowed aunt Maria Clemm, her daughter Virginia, his brother Henry and his invalid grandmother Elizabeth Cairnes Poe

August 1(?), 1829 - Baltimore - Meets his 7-year-old cousin Virginia Clemm

September 1(?), 1829 - Baltimore - Receives the first words of encouragement in a review of his poetry by influential critic John Neal

December(?) 1(?), 1829 - Baltimore - Publication of his second collection of poems "Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems". He signs as "Edgar A. Poe"

July 1, 1830 - West Point, New York - Poe matriculates as a cadet in West Point

October 1(?), 1830 - New York City - Poe marries his second wife Louisa Patterson

February 8, 1831 - West Point - Poe is tried for gross neglect of duty and disobedience of orders for refusing to attend formations, classes, or church

February 15(?), 1831 - New York City - Poe leaves New York 

March 1(?), 1831 - Baltimore - Poe returns to his family in Baltimore

August 1, 1831 - Baltimore - His brother Henry dies, due to problems related with alcoholism

January(?) 1(?), 1833 - Baltimore - Joins the household of Virginia's mother, where his brother had lived (until he died on August 1, 1831)

October 1(?), 1833 - Baltimore - The "Baltimore Saturday Visiter" awards him a prize for his short story "MS. Found in a Bottle"

July 7, 1835 - Baltimore - Elizabeth Cairnes Poe dies, effectively ending the family's income and making their financial situation even more difficult

August 1(?), 1835 - Richmond, Virginia - Edgar Allan Poe moves to Richmond to become assistant editor at the "Southern Literary Messenger"

August 29, 1835 - Richmond - Letter to Maria Poe, pleading that she allow Virginia to make her own decision about marrying him

September 22, 1835 - Baltimore - Poe returns to Baltimore to file for a marriage license

May 16, 1836 - Richmond - 27-year-old Edgar Allan Poe marries his 13-year-old cousin, Virginia Clemm

May 20(?), 1836 - Petersburg, Virginia - Short Honeymoon

August 1(?), 1836 - Richmond - Publication of "The City of Sin" in Richmond's "Southern Literary Messenger"

January 1(?), 1837 - Richmond - Leaves the "Southern Literary Messenger"

July 1(?), 1838 - Richmond - Publication of "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket"

August(?) 1(?), 1839 - Philadelphia - Becomes assistant editor of "Burton's Gentleman's Magazine"

January(?) 1(?), 1840 - Philadelphia - Publication of "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque"

June 1(?), 1840 - Philadelphia - Poe buys advertising space in the "Saturday Evening Post" for a prospectus announcing his intentions to start a journal called "The Stylus"

August(?) 1(?), 1840 - Philadelphia - Poe leaves "Burton's Gentleman's Magazine" and becomes writer and co-editor of the monthly "Graham's Mazagine"

February 1(?), 1842 - New York City - Poe gives a lecture in which he criticizes American poetry

April 1(?), 1844 - New York City - The Family moves to New York. Poe becomes editor of the "Broadway journal" (later its owner), after working briefly at the "Evening Mirror"

April 13, 1844 - New York City - Publication of "The Balloon-hoax" in the "Sun"

January 29, 1845 - New York City - The "New York Evening Post" publishes Poe's poem

"The Raven"

March 1(?), 1845 - New York City - Meets poet Frances Sargent Osgood

April 1(?), 1845 - New York City - Publication of "The City in the Sea" in the "American Review"

August 30, 1845 - New York City - Publication of "The City in the Sea" in the "Broadway journal"

January 1(?), 1846 - New York City - Visited by writer and poet Elizabeth Fries Ellet

May 1(?), 1846 - Fordham, Bronx, New York - "Broadway Journal" fails and Poe moves to cottage in Fordham, Bronx, New York

June 12, 1846 - Fordham - Letter to Virginia: "Keep up your heart in all hopelessness, and trust yet a little longer"

January 29, 1847 - Fordham - Letter to Marie Louise Shew: "My poor Virginia still lives, although failing fast and now suffering much pain."

Poe's cottage in Fordham

January 30, 1847 - Fordham - Virginia Clemm dies of Tuberculosis

February 2, 1847 - Fordham - Virginia Clemm Poe's funeral

July 1(?), 1848 - Fordham - Poe meets Sarah Elmira Royster again, a widow since 1844

May 1(?), 1849 - Fordham - Edgar Allan Poe writes "Annabel Lee", that would be published two days after his death

September 17, 1849 - Baltimore - Visits Baltimore to stay with Sarah Royster

October 3, 1849 - Baltimore - Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious on the streets of Baltimore. He is taken to the Washington Medical College

October 7, 1849 - Baltimore - Edgar Allan Poe dies at the Washington Medical College, aged 40 =(END)

Pyotr Stolypin | Timeline

Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin (14 April 1862 – 18 September 1911) was a Russian politician and statesman. He served as the third prime minister and the interior minister of the Russian Empire from 1906 until his assassination in 1911. Known as the greatest reformer of Russian society and economy, his reforms caused unprecedented growth of the Russian state, which was halted by his assassination. (Intro from Wikipedia)

April 14, 1862 - Dresden, Germany - Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin is born

May 24, 1862 - Dresden - Baptized in the Dresden Orthodox Church. The family moves to Moscow region

January(?) 1(?), 1869 - Kalnaberžė, Lithuania (Russian empire) - The Stolypin family moves from Moscow region to Kalnaberžė, Lithuania

January(?) 1(?), 1874 - Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania) - Enrolled in the second grade of the Vilna Gymnasium

January(?) 1(?), 1876 - Vilna - The Stolypin family moves to Vilna, where Pyotr is enrolled at grammar school

January(?) 1(?), 1879 - Oryol - Transfered to the Oryol Gymnasium with his brother, when the 9th Army Corps under the command of his father moves from Bulgaria to that russian city

June 3, 1881 - Oryol - Graduates from the Oryol Gymnasium

August 31, 1881 - Saint-Petersburg - Begins studying agriculture at St.Petersburg University

October 27, 1884 - Saint-Petersburg - Enlisted in the Ministry of Internal Affairs while still a student =(START)

December(?) 1(?), 1884 - Saint-Petersburg - Marries Olga Borisovna von Neidhart

October 7, 1885 - Saint-Petersburg - Graduates from the Saint-Petersburg University (Physics and Mathematics, with final work on economics). On the same day he is granted the rank of "collegiate secretary". First daughter Maria is born

January 27, 1887 - Saint-Petersburg - Becomes assistant clerk of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Industry

January 1, 1888 - Saint-Petersburg - Granted the rank of "Chamber Junker of the Court of His Imperial Majesty"

October 7, 1888 - Saint-Petersburg - Promoted to "Titular advisor"

January(?) 1(?), 1889 - Saint-Petersburg - Promoted to Collegiate

March 18, 1889 - Kovno (Kaunas, Lithuania) - Becomes marshal of the Kovno Governorate (until 1902)

January(?) 1(?), 1890 - Kovno - Appointed honorary "Justice of the Peace" (empowered to perform the functions of a judge)

January(?) 1(?), 1891 - Kovno - Promoted to "Collegiate Assessor"

December 15, 1892 - Kalnaberžė - Second daughter Elena is born

January(?) 1(?), 1893 - Kovno - Awarded the first "Order of St.Anna"

March 20, 1894 - Kalnaberžė - Third daughter Natalya is born

January(?) 1(?), 1895 - Kovno - Promoted to Court Councilor

August 19, 1895 - Kovno - Fourth daughter Olga is born

January(?) 1(?), 1896 - Kovno - Receives the court rank of Chamberlain

September 30, 1897 - Kalnaberžė - Fifth daughter Alexandra is born

January(?) 1(?), 1901 - Kovno - Promoted to State councilor

May 15(?), 1902 - Bad Elster, Saxony, Germany - Stolypin takes his family "to the waters" of Bad Elster, Germany

May 30, 1902 - While in Bad Elster - Appointed Governor in Grodno Governorate

June 21, 1902 - Grodno (western Belarus) - Arrives in Grodno

July 20, 1903 - Grodno - First son Arkady is born

February 15, 1904 - Saratov - Becomes Governor of Saratov

January 1(?), 1905 - Saratov - Surpresses strikers and peasant unrest in Saratov

April 20(?), 1906 - Tsarkoe Selo, Saint-Petersburg - Summoned to Tstarkoe Selo by the Czar

April 26, 1906 - Saint-Petersburg - Becomes Minister of the Interior of the Russian Empire

July 21, 1906 - Saint-Petersburg - Ivan Goremykin resigns. Nicholas II dissolves the First State Duma and appoints Interior Minister Pyotr Stolypin also as Prime-Minister

August 25, 1906 - Aptekarsky Island, Saint-Petersburg - Stolypin and his children are wounded when three assassins from the Union of Socialist Revolutionaries maximalists bomb a public reception Stolypin was holding at his dacha on Aptekarsky Island. 28 people are killed

October 16, 1906 - Saint-Petersburg - Letter from Nicholas II of Russia

November 9, 1906 - Saint-Petersburg - Agrarian reform decree: "On supplementing some of the provisions of the current law concerning peasant land ownership and land use" - It proclaimed a wide range of measures to destroy the collective land tenure of rural society and create a class of peasant owners of the land

March 13, 1907 - Saint-Petersburg - Speech before the Second Duma

May 7, 1907 - Saint-Petersburg - Stolypin publishes in the Duma a "Government report on a conspiracy" discovered in the capital and aimed at committing terrorist acts against the Czar, Grand Duke Nikolai and himself

June 8, 1907 - Saint-Petersburg - Stolypin dissolves the second Duma

November 7, 1907 - Saint-Petersburg - A Third Duma is elected, dominated by gentry, landowners and businessmen

November 17, 1907 - Saint-Petersburg - In a Duma session, Kadet party member Fedor Rodichev refers to the gallows as "Stolypin's efficient black Monday necktie". Outraged, Stolypin challenges Rodichev to a duel, but Rodichev apologizes to avert it.

January 20, 1910 - Saint-Petersburg - Stolypin issues a circular order to close and to stop the registration of "foreign" societies foreign on the basis of "national interests" (Ukrainian, jewish, german, religious, cultural and educational societies)

June 14, 1910 - Saint-Petersburg - Stolypin's land reforms came before the Duma as a formal law, including a proposal to spread the "zemstvo" system to the southwestern provinces of Asian Russia. Stolypin's political opponents narrowly defeat it.

August 19, 1910 - Kolonets, SE of Moscow - Visit to Kolonets before departing for an Inspection trip to Siberia with Mr.Krivoshein, Chief Administrator of Agriculture and Land Settlement

Stolypin (on the left) in Kiev
shortly before his death

March 5(?), 1911 - Saint-Petersburg - In a fit of anger stating that he no longer commanded the imperial confidence, Stolypin asks to be relieved of his office

August 25(?), 1911 - Kiev - Stolypin travels to Kiev for the unveiling of a statue to Alexander II

August 30, 1911 - Kiev - Stolypin presents a jewish delegation to the Czar

September 14, 1911 - Kiev - Nicholas II, his daughters Olga and Tatyana, and various dignataries visit the Kiev Opera House for a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's "The tale of the Tsar Saltan". During the intermission, Prime-minister Stolypin is shot four times

September 18, 1911 - Kiev - Prime-Minister Stolypin dies of his wounds, aged 49 =(END)

Alexander Nevsky | Timeline

Alexander Yaroslavich Nevsky (13 May 1221 – 14 November 1263) served as Prince of Novgorod (1236–40, 1241–56 and 1258–1259), Grand Prince of Kiev (1246–63) and Grand Prince of Vladimir (1252–63) during some of the most difficult times in Kievan Rus' history. (Intro from Wikipedia)

May 13, 1221 - Pereslavl-Zalessky, Vladimir-Suzdal (Between Yaroslavl and Moscow) - Alexander Yaroslavich is born

August(?) 1(?), 1228 - Novgorod - Alexander and his elder brother Fyodor are left in Novgorod while their father goes on a military campaign againt Riga in the Summer

February 1(?), 1229 - Pereslavl - Flees from the city fearing reprisals of the rebellious Novgorodians

January(?) 1(?), 1230 - Novgorod - Prince Yaroslav is summoned to Novgorod. After spending two weeks in the city, he puts Fyodor and Alexander to reign

June 5, 1233 - Novgorod - Fyodor dies, aged 13

January(?) 1(?), 1235 - River Emajogi (today Estonia) - Alexander participates in his first battle, where the forces of Yaroslav totally routed the Germans =(START)

August(?) 1(?), 1236 - Pereslavl-Zalessky, Vladimir-Suzdal - After a successful Kiev campaign, Yaroslav leaves Novgorod to reign in Kiev. Alexander is appointed by the Novgorodians to become prince (knyaz) and military leader of the Republic of Novgorod, to defend their northwest lands from Swedish and german invaders

February 4, 1238 - While in Pereslavl-Zalessky - A Mongol horde lays siege to Vladimir

February 7, 1238 - While in Pereslavl-Zalessky - Vladimir is taken and burnt to the ground

March 4, 1238 - While in Pereslavl-Zalessky - Battle of the Sit River - The Mongols defeat (and kill) Grand Prince Yuri II at Yaroslavl

January(?) 1(?), 1239 - Toropets, W. of Velikiye Luki - Marries a daughter of Bryacheslav Vasilkovich, Prince of Polatsk and Vitebsk

January(?) 1(?), 1240 - Pereslavl-Zalessky - Banished to Pereslavl by the citizens of Novgorod

July(?) 1(?), 1240 - Novgorod - Prince Alexander is recalled to the city when the Teutonic Knights take Pskov and approach Novgorod

Battle of the Neva

July 15, 1240 - near Ust-Izhora, Neva River, Russia - Battle of the Neva - Alexander defeats the swedes and saves Novgorod, gaining the sobriquet "Nevsky" (of Neva)

January(?) 1(?), 1241 - Koporye, W. of St.Petersburg - Retakes Koporye from the crusaders

March 5, 1242 - Pskov - Alexander Nevsky retakes Pskov

April 5, 1242 - over frozen Lake Peipus, between Estonia and Russia - Battle of the Ice - Alexander Nevsky defeats the Livonian Knights

January(?) 1(?), 1245 - Toropets | Usvyat, Pskov - Victorious campaign against the Lithuanians, retaking Toropets and defeating them again near Usvyat

September 30, 1246 - While in Novgorod(?) - Nevsky's father Yaroslav is poisoned in Karakorum, to where he was summoned

November(?) 1(?), 1246 - Novgorod(?) - Becomes Grand Prince of Kiev after his father's death

January(?) 1(?), 1247 - Sarai, near the Caspian Sea - Alexander goes to the Horde to Batu Khan

January(?) 1(?), 1248 - Karakorum, Mongolia - From Sarai, he follows his brother Andrei to the Great Khan in Mongolia

January(?) 1(?), 1249 - Kiev (today Ukraine) - Alexander and his brother Andrei return from Karakorum

January(?) 1(?), 1251 - Kiev - Concludes an agreement with the Norwegian King Hakon IV on the settlement of border disputes and delimitations in the collection of tribute from the vast territory inhabited by karelians and Sami

January(?) 1(?), 1252 - Novgorod - Alexander is installed as the Grand Prince of Vladimir, after another Mongol invasion forces Prince Andrei to exile in Sweden

January(?) 1(?), 1256 - Finland - Campaign in Finland through the polar night

January(?) 1(?), 1258 - Sarai, near the Caspian Sea - Goes to the Horde to "honor" Berke Khan's governor Ulaghchi

January(?) 1(?), 1259 - Novgorod - Nevsky leads an army to Novgorod and forces the city to pay tribute that it had previously refused to the Golden Horde

November(?) 1(?), 1263 - Nizhny Novgorod - Reaches Nizhny Novgorod on his way back from Sarai and stays for a few days rest

November 14, 1263 - Gorodets, Vladimir-Suzdal - Alexander Nevsky falls ill and dies before returning home, aged 42 =(END)