Page 2: Historical Events In 1837

Mar 04   Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American   

Mar 07   Henry Draper, Virginia, astro-spectro-photographer (Moon, Jupiter)   

Mar 12   Felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer   

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

Mar 14   Charles Ammi Cutter, US librarian (Expansive classification).   

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

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

Mar 23   Joseph Wieniawski, composer   

Mar 24   Canada gives blacks the right to vote   

Mar 24   Philips, Count of Flanders Belgium   

Mar 26   Joseph Lincke, composer, dies at 53.   

Mar 28   Felix Mendelssohn marries Cécile Jeanrenaud   

Mar 29   Maria Fitzherbert, morganatic wife of King George IV, dies.   

Mar 31   Death of English landscape painter John Constable.   

Mar 31   John Constable, English painter/water colors painter, dies at 60   

Mar 31   Robert Ross McBurney, 1st paid secretary of the YMCA   

Apr 03   John Burroughs, writer/nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake)   

Apr 05   Algernon Charles Swinburne, England, poet (Atalanta in Calydon).   

Apr 11   Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth, Col (Union Army), died in 1861.   

Apr 15   Horace Porter, Bvt Brig General (Union Army), died in 1921   

Apr 17   Edouard viscount de Walckiers, very wealthy slave trader, dies.   

Apr 17   John Pierpont Morgan, American industrialist is born.   

Apr 17   John Pierpont Morgan, US banker/CEO (US Steel)   

Apr 19   Cheyney University forms as the Institute for Colored Youth   

Apr 21   Fredrik Bajer, Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1908).   

Apr 24   Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz)   

Apr 25   William Charles Levey, composer.   

Apr 30   Alfred Gaul, composer.   

May 02   Henry Martyn Robert, parliamentarian (Robert's Rules of Order).   

May 03   The University of Athens is founded   

May 05   Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer/bandmaster, dies at 85.   

May 09   "Sherrod" burns in Mississippi River below Natchez Miss; 175 dies   

May 09   "Sherrod" burns in Mississippi River below Natchez MS; 175 dies   

May 09   Adam Opel, German manufacturer (cycling, motorcars)   

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Jan 02   Mili alexeyevich balakirev: Nizhny-novgorod, russia, composer (tamara)   

Jan 04   Casimiro de abreu: Brazil, poet (camoes e o jau)   

Jan 05   A ch swinburne: Writer [or apr 5]   

Jan 12   Adolf jensen: Composer   

Jan 16   James phillip simms: Brig general (confederate army), died in 1887   

Jan 19   William williams keen: Surgeon (brain)   

Jan 20   David josiah brewer: U.s. supreme court justice    

Feb 05   Dwight lyman moody: Us, evangelist (student volunteer movement)   

Jan 11   John field: Irish pianist/composer (nocturnes),    

Jan 20   John soane: English architect (book of designs),   

Jan 23   John field: Composer,    

Jan 29   Aleksandr pushkin: Poet/novelist (golden cockeral), killed in a duel   

Feb 07   King gustav iv adolf of sweden: King gustav iv adolf of sweden (b. 1778)   

Feb 10   Alexander s pushkin: Writer,   

Feb 12   Ludwig borne: Writer,   

Feb 13   Mariano josé de larra: Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809