- The same year "The Raven" was published the potato famine started in Ireland.
- Poe joined the army two years after the Erie Canal opened.
- The same year 27 year old Poe married his 13 year old cousin, the Battle of the Alamo started.
- The same year Poe's story "Ms. Found in a Bottle" won a literary award, Samuel Morse invented the telegraph.
- Mormons established Salt Lake City 4 years before Poe died.
- The gold rush started the year Poe died.
- Poe was born the same year as Abraham Lincon
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