Dec 29 On this day in history royal Navy Commander Andrew Drew 1792-1878 and a group of Canadian militiamen cross the Niagara River to Fort Schlosser, and capture the American supply steamer Caroline, burn the ship and set her adrife in the river towards Niagra FAlls
Dec 29 On this day in history steam-powered threshing machine patented, Winthrop, Maine
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Jan 02 On this day in history birth of mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara)
Jan 04 In the year 1837 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 Adolf Jensen, composer was born on this day in history.
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 On this day in history birth of william Williams Keen, surgeon (brain)
Jan 20 David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910) was born in the year 1837.
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 Aleksandr Pushkin, poet/novelist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel died on this day in history.
Feb 07 In the year 1837 death of king Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778)
Feb 10 In the year 1837 alexander S Pushkin, writer, dies at 37
Feb 12 Ludwig Borne, writer, dies at 50 on this day in history.
Feb 13 Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809 died on this day in history.