| 1838/00/00 |
A poem dedicated to Mary Rogers appears in the New York Herald. |
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Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers |
| 1842/04/00 |
In the spring of 1842, Edgar Allan Poe begins writing "The Mystery of Marie Roget", lifting whole passages from the New York Herald and the Tattler. |
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The Mystery of Marie Roget (short story) |
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Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers |
| 1847/01/30 |
Edgar Allen Poe's wife Virginia dies of Tuberculosis. The New York Daily Tribune and the Herald obituaries: On Saturday, the 30th ult, of pulmonary consumption, in the 25th year of her age, VIRGINIA ELIZA, wife of EDGAR A POE. |
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| 1848/08/19 |
The gold mine discovered in December last, on the south branch of the American fork, in a range of low hills forming the base of the Sierra Nevada, distant thirty miles from New Helvetia, is only three feet below the surface, in a strata of soft rock. NYH |
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California Gold Rush |