Historical Events In 1837

Mar 04   Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American in the year 1837.  

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

Mar 12   On this day in history 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   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   In the year 1837 joseph Wieniawski, composer  

Mar 24   In the year 1837 canada gives blacks the right to vote  

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

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

Mar 28   Felix Mendelssohn marries Cécile Jeanrenaud in the year 1837.  

Mar 29   In the year 1837 maria Fitzherbert, morganatic wife of King George IV, dies  

Mar 31   Death of English landscape painter John Constable in the year 1837.  

Mar 31   John Constable, English painter/water colors painter, dies at 60 in the year 1837.  

Mar 31   On this day in history robert Ross McBurney, 1st paid secretary of the YMCA  

Apr 03   John Burroughs, writer/nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake) in the year 1837.  

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

Apr 17   Edouard viscount de Walckiers, very wealthy slave trader, dies on this day in history.  

Apr 17   On this day in history john Pierpont Morgan, US banker/CEO (US Steel)  

Apr 17   In the year 1837 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   Fredrik Bajer, Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1908) in the year 1837.  

Apr 24   Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz) on this day in history.  

Apr 25   William Charles Levey, composer in the year 1837.  

Apr 30   Alfred Gaul, composer on this day in history.  

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

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 on this day in history.  

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

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Jan 02   On this day in history 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   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   In the year 1837 birth of carlos Troyer, composer  

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

Jan 19   William Williams Keen, surgeon (brain) was born on this day in history.  

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 on this day in history.  

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

Jan 23   John Field, composer, dies at 54 in the year 1837.  

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

Feb 07   On this day in history 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 in the year 1837.  

Feb 13   Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809 died in the year 1837.