Page 4: Historical Events In 1837

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

Jul 20   In the year 1837 hans Sommer, composer   

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   John Ross, composer, dies at 73 in the year 1837.   

Jul 30   On this day in history elon John Farnsworth, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863   

Jul 31   On this day in history william Clarke Quantrill, Col (Confederate Army), died in 1865   

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

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

Aug 11   Marie Francois Carnot, engineer/French pres (1887-94); assassinated in the year 1837.   

Aug 16   Emile A H Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer on this day in history.   

Aug 24   Theodore Dubois, composer on this day in history.   

Aug 27   On this day in history heinrich Urban, composer   

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 on this day in history.   

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

Sep 15   Leo van Gheluwe, composer in the year 1837.   

Sep 16   On this day in history pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61)   

Sep 16   On this day in history pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61), dies   

Sep 19   On this day in history adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld, composer   

Sep 21   Charles Tiffany founded his jewelry & china stores on this day in history.   

Sep 23   Richard John Samuel Stevens, composer, dies at 80 on this day in history.   

Oct 01   On this day in history "Racer's" Hurricane (Gulf of Mexico)   

Oct 01   Treaty with Winnebago Indians in the year 1837.   

Oct 05   In the year 1837 hortense de Beauharnais, French queen of Neth (1806-10), dies at 54   

Oct 06   In the year 1837 jean-Francois Le Sueur, composer, dies at 77   

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

Oct 09   Charles Fourier, French utopian socialist (Harmony universal), dies in the year 1837.   

Oct 09   Steamboat "Home" sinks off Okracoke NC killing 100 on this day in history.   

Oct 11   On this day in history samuel Wesley, composer (Exultate Deo), dies at 71   

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

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Jan 02   Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara) was born in the year 1837.   

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

Jan 05   In the year 1837 birth of a Ch Swinburne, writer [or Apr 5]   

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

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

Jan 16   In the year 1837 birth of james Phillip Simms, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1887   

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 on this day in history.   

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   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   Alexander S Pushkin, writer, dies at 37 in the year 1837.   

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.