Historical Events In 1837

Jul 13   In the year 1837 queen Victoria is 1st monarch to live in present Buckingham Palace  

Jul 20   Hans Sommer, composer on this day in history.  

Jul 24   On this day in history charles Hodges, English/Dutch portrait painter  

Jul 25   The first commercial use of an electric telegraph was successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London in the year 1837.  

Jul 27   US Mint opens in Charlotte, NC on this day in history.  

Jul 28   Christian Barnekow, composer on this day in history.  

Jul 28   On this day in history john Ross, composer, dies at 73  

Jul 30   Elon John Farnsworth, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 in the year 1837.  

Jul 31   In the year 1837 william Clarke Quantrill, Col (Confederate Army), died in 1865  

Aug 01   Walter Geikie, painter, dies in the year 1837.  

Aug 05   In the year 1837 1st ascent of Mt Marcy (5,344') highest in Adirondack, NY  

Aug 11   Marie Francois Carnot, engineer/French pres (1887-94); assassinated on this day in history.  

Aug 16   On this day in history emile A H Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer  

Aug 24   Theodore Dubois, composer in the year 1837.  

Aug 27   Heinrich Urban, composer in the year 1837.  

Aug 28   Pharmacists John Lea & William Perrins manufactures Worcester Sauce in the year 1837.  

Aug 30   On this day in history ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, 1st lady (1881-85)  

Sep 02   James Harrison Wilson, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1925 in the year 1837.  

Sep 06   On this day in history oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio goes co-ed (4 women, 30 men)  

Sep 15   In the year 1837 leo van Gheluwe, composer  

Sep 16   In the year 1837 pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61)  

Sep 16   In the year 1837 pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61), dies  

Sep 19   Adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld, composer on this day in history.  

Sep 21   Charles Tiffany founded his jewelry & china stores in the year 1837.  

Sep 23   In the year 1837 richard John Samuel Stevens, composer, dies at 80  

Oct 01   In the year 1837 "Racer's" Hurricane (Gulf of Mexico)  

Oct 01   Treaty with Winnebago Indians in the year 1837.  

Oct 05   Hortense de Beauharnais, French queen of Neth (1806-10), dies at 54 on this day in history.  

Oct 06   On this day in history jean-Francois Le Sueur, composer, dies at 77  

Oct 08   Otto Winter-Hjelm, composer in the year 1837.  

Oct 09   In the year 1837 charles Fourier, French utopian socialist (Harmony universal), dies  

Oct 09   In the year 1837 steamboat "Home" sinks off Okracoke NC killing 100  

Oct 11   Samuel Wesley, composer (Exultate Deo), dies at 71 in the year 1837.  

Oct 12   Frederica Louisa Wilhelmina, Queen of Netherlands, dies at 62 in the year 1837.  

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

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

Jan 05   On this day in history birth of a Ch Swinburne, writer [or Apr 5]  

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

Jan 12   Carlos Troyer, composer was born on this day in history.  

Jan 16   James Phillip Simms, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1887 was born on this day in history.  

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

Jan 20   John Soane, English architect (Book of Designs), dies at 84 in the year 1837.  

Jan 23   On this day in history john Field, composer, dies at 54  

Jan 29   On this day in history death of aleksandr Pushkin, poet/novelist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel  

Feb 07   King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778) died in the year 1837.  

Feb 10   On this day in history alexander S Pushkin, writer, dies at 37  

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

Feb 13   Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809 died on this day in history.