Historical Events In 1837

Jul 13   Queen Victoria is 1st monarch to live in present Buckingham Palace on this day in history.   

Jul 20   In the year 1837 hans Sommer, composer   

Jul 24   In the year 1837 charles Hodges, English/Dutch portrait painter   

Jul 25   On this day in history 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.   

Jul 27   In the year 1837 uS Mint opens in Charlotte, NC   

Jul 28   On this day in history christian Barnekow, composer   

Jul 28   John Ross, composer, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

Jul 30   Elon John Farnsworth, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 in the year 1837.   

Jul 31   William Clarke Quantrill, Col (Confederate Army), died in 1865 on this day in history.   

Aug 01   Walter Geikie, painter, dies on this day in history.   

Aug 05   On this day in history 1st ascent of Mt Marcy (5,344') highest in Adirondack, NY   

Aug 11   On this day in history marie Francois Carnot, engineer/French pres (1887-94); assassinated   

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   In the year 1837 ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, 1st lady (1881-85)   

Sep 02   James Harrison Wilson, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1925 in the year 1837.   

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

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

Sep 16   Pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61) in the year 1837.   

Sep 16   Pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61), dies in the year 1837.   

Sep 19   Adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld, composer on this day in history.   

Sep 21   Charles Tiffany founded his jewelry & china stores in the year 1837.   

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

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

Oct 01   In the year 1837 treaty with Winnebago Indians   

Oct 05   Hortense de Beauharnais, French queen of Neth (1806-10), dies at 54 on this day in history.   

Oct 06   Jean-Francois Le Sueur, composer, dies at 77 in the year 1837.   

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

Oct 09   In the year 1837 charles Fourier, French utopian socialist (Harmony universal), dies   

Oct 09   Steamboat "Home" sinks off Okracoke NC killing 100 in the year 1837.   

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

Oct 12   On this day in history frederica Louisa Wilhelmina, Queen of Netherlands, dies at 62   

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Jan 02   Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara) was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 05   A Ch Swinburne, writer [or Apr 5] was born in the year 1837.   

Jan 12   Adolf Jensen, composer was born in the year 1837.   

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

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 in the year 1837.   

Jan 11   In the year 1837 john Field, Irish pianist/composer (Nocturnes), dies at 54   

Jan 20   John Soane, English architect (Book of Designs), dies at 84 in the year 1837.   

Jan 23   John Field, composer, dies at 54 on this day in history.   

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

Feb 07   King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778) died on this day in history.   

Feb 10   In the year 1837 alexander S Pushkin, writer, dies at 37   

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

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