Historical Events In 1837

Mar 04   Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American on this day in history.  

Mar 07   On this day in history henry Draper, Virginia, astro-spectro-photographer (Moon, Jupiter)  

Mar 12   In the year 1837 felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer  

Mar 13   Nikita P Panin, Russian diplomat/min of Foreign affairs, dies at 66 in the year 1837.  

Mar 14   In the year 1837 charles Ammi Cutter, US librarian (Expansive classification)  

Mar 18   In the year 1837 grover Cleveland, [Stephen], NJ, 22nd/24th Pres (1885-89, 93-97)  

Mar 19   Robert Daniel Johnston, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1919 in the year 1837.  

Mar 23   In the year 1837 joseph Wieniawski, composer  

Mar 24   Canada gives blacks the right to vote in the year 1837.  

Mar 24   Philips, Count of Flanders Belgium on this day in history.  

Mar 26   In the year 1837 joseph Lincke, composer, dies at 53  

Mar 28   On this day in history felix Mendelssohn marries Cécile Jeanrenaud  

Mar 29   Maria Fitzherbert, morganatic wife of King George IV, dies in the year 1837.  

Mar 31   On this day in history death of English landscape painter John Constable.  

Mar 31   On this day in history john Constable, English painter/water colors painter, dies at 60  

Mar 31   Robert Ross McBurney, 1st paid secretary of the YMCA on this day in history.  

Apr 03   On this day in history john Burroughs, writer/nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake)  

Apr 05   On this day in history algernon Charles Swinburne, England, poet (Atalanta in Calydon)  

Apr 11   In the year 1837 ephraim Elmer Ellsworth, Col (Union Army), died in 1861  

Apr 15   On this day in history horace Porter, Bvt Brig General (Union Army), died in 1921  

Apr 17   On this day in history edouard viscount de Walckiers, very wealthy slave trader, dies  

Apr 17   In the year 1837 john Pierpont Morgan, US banker/CEO (US Steel)  

Apr 17   On this day in history the birth of John Pierpont Morgan, American industrialist  

Apr 19   On this day in history cheyney University forms as the Institute for Colored Youth  

Apr 21   On this day in history fredrik Bajer, Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1908)  

Apr 24   In the year 1837 friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz)  

Apr 25   In the year 1837 william Charles Levey, composer  

Apr 30   In the year 1837 alfred Gaul, composer  

May 02   In the year 1837 henry Martyn Robert, parliamentarian (Robert's Rules of Order)  

May 03   The University of Athens is founded in the year 1837.  

May 05   In the year 1837 niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer/bandmaster, dies at 85  

May 09   On this day in history "Sherrod" burns in Mississippi River below Natchez Miss; 175 dies  

May 09   "Sherrod" burns in Mississippi River below Natchez MS; 175 dies in the year 1837.  

May 09   Adam Opel, German manufacturer (cycling, motorcars) on this day in history.  

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Jan 02   In the year 1837 birth of mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara)  

Jan 04   Casimiro de Abreu, Brazil, poet (Camoes e o jau) was born in the year 1837.  

Jan 05   A Ch Swinburne, writer [or Apr 5] was born on this day in history.  

Jan 12   Adolf Jensen, composer was born in the year 1837.  

Jan 12   In the year 1837 birth of carlos Troyer, composer  

Jan 16   James Phillip Simms, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1887 was born in the year 1837.  

Jan 19   In the year 1837 birth of william Williams Keen, surgeon (brain)  

Jan 20   David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 11   In the year 1837 john Field, Irish pianist/composer (Nocturnes), dies at 54  

Jan 20   In the year 1837 john Soane, English architect (Book of Designs), dies at 84  

Jan 23   John Field, composer, dies at 54 on this day in history.  

Jan 29   In the year 1837 death of aleksandr Pushkin, poet/novelist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel  

Feb 07   King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778) died on this day in history.  

Feb 10   In the year 1837 alexander S Pushkin, writer, dies at 37  

Feb 12   On this day in history ludwig Borne, writer, dies at 50  

Feb 13   On this day in history death of mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809