Historical Events In 1837

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

Mar 07   Henry Draper, Virginia, astro-spectro-photographer (Moon, Jupiter) on this day in history.  

Mar 12   On this day in history felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer  

Mar 13   On this day in history nikita P Panin, Russian diplomat/min of Foreign affairs, dies at 66  

Mar 14   On this day in history charles Ammi Cutter, US librarian (Expansive classification)  

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

Mar 19   In the year 1837 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 on this day in history.  

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

Mar 26   Joseph Lincke, composer, dies at 53 in the year 1837.  

Mar 28   Felix Mendelssohn marries Cécile Jeanrenaud on this day in history.  

Mar 29   On this day in history maria Fitzherbert, morganatic wife of King George IV, dies  

Mar 31   On this day in history death of English landscape painter John Constable.  

Mar 31   In the year 1837 john Constable, English painter/water colors painter, dies at 60  

Mar 31   Robert Ross McBurney, 1st paid secretary of the YMCA in the year 1837.  

Apr 03   On this day in history john Burroughs, writer/nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake)  

Apr 05   Algernon Charles Swinburne, England, poet (Atalanta in Calydon) on this day in history.  

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   John Pierpont Morgan, US banker/CEO (US Steel) in the year 1837.  

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   In the year 1837 fredrik Bajer, Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1908)  

Apr 24   Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz) in the year 1837.  

Apr 25   On this day in history william Charles Levey, composer  

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

May 02   In the year 1837 henry Martyn Robert, parliamentarian (Robert's Rules of Order)  

May 03   The University of Athens is founded in the year 1837.  

May 05   Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer/bandmaster, dies at 85 on this day in history.  

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

May 09   On this day in history "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   Casimiro de Abreu, Brazil, poet (Camoes e o jau) was born in the year 1837.  

Jan 05   A Ch Swinburne, writer [or Apr 5] was born on this day in history.  

Jan 12   On this day in history birth of adolf Jensen, composer  

Jan 12   Carlos Troyer, composer was born in the year 1837.  

Jan 16   On this day in history birth of james Phillip Simms, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1887  

Jan 19   William Williams Keen, surgeon (brain) was born in the year 1837.  

Jan 20   On this day in history 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 in the year 1837.  

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

Feb 12   In the year 1837 ludwig Borne, writer, dies at 50  

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