Historical Events In 1837

Mar 04   On this day in history weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American  

Mar 07   In the year 1837 henry Draper, Virginia, astro-spectro-photographer (Moon, Jupiter)  

Mar 12   Felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer on this day in history.  

Mar 13   In the year 1837 nikita P Panin, Russian diplomat/min of Foreign affairs, dies at 66  

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

Mar 18   Grover Cleveland, [Stephen], NJ, 22nd/24th Pres (1885-89, 93-97) on this day in history.  

Mar 19   On this day in history robert Daniel Johnston, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1919  

Mar 23   On this day in history joseph Wieniawski, composer  

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

Mar 24   Philips, Count of Flanders Belgium in the year 1837.  

Mar 26   Joseph Lincke, composer, dies at 53 on this day in history.  

Mar 28   In the year 1837 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   In the year 1837 robert Ross McBurney, 1st paid secretary of the YMCA  

Apr 03   In the year 1837 john Burroughs, writer/nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake)  

Apr 05   In the year 1837 algernon Charles Swinburne, England, poet (Atalanta in Calydon)  

Apr 11   Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth, Col (Union Army), died in 1861 on this day in history.  

Apr 15   Horace Porter, Bvt Brig General (Union Army), died in 1921 on this day in history.  

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

Apr 17   John Pierpont Morgan, US banker/CEO (US Steel) on this day in history.  

Apr 17   The birth of John Pierpont Morgan, American industrialist in the year 1837.  

Apr 19   Cheyney University forms as the Institute for Colored Youth in the year 1837.  

Apr 21   In the year 1837 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   Alfred Gaul, composer in the year 1837.  

May 02   Henry Martyn Robert, parliamentarian (Robert's Rules of Order) in the year 1837.  

May 03   The University of Athens is founded on this day in history.  

May 05   Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer/bandmaster, dies at 85 in the year 1837.  

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

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

May 09   In the year 1837 adam Opel, German manufacturer (cycling, motorcars)  

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Jan 02   Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara) was born in the year 1837.  

Jan 04   On this day in history birth of casimiro de Abreu, Brazil, poet (Camoes e o jau)  

Jan 05   In the year 1837 birth of a Ch Swinburne, writer [or Apr 5]  

Jan 12   In the year 1837 birth of adolf Jensen, composer  

Jan 12   On this day in history 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   In the year 1837 birth of david Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910)  

Jan 11   John Field, Irish pianist/composer (Nocturnes), dies at 54 in the year 1837.  

Jan 20   John Soane, English architect (Book of Designs), dies at 84 on this day in history.  

Jan 23   In the year 1837 john Field, composer, dies at 54  

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

Feb 07   In the year 1837 death of king Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778)  

Feb 10   Alexander S Pushkin, writer, dies at 37 in the year 1837.  

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

Feb 13   In the year 1837 death of mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809