Historical Events In 1837

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

Jul 20   Hans Sommer, composer in the year 1837.  

Jul 24   On this day in history 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   US Mint opens in Charlotte, NC on this day in history.  

Jul 28   Christian Barnekow, composer in the year 1837.  

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

Jul 30   In the year 1837 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   On this day in history marie Francois Carnot, engineer/French pres (1887-94); assassinated  

Aug 16   On this day in history emile A H Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer  

Aug 24   Theodore Dubois, composer in the year 1837.  

Aug 27   In the year 1837 heinrich Urban, composer  

Aug 28   In the year 1837 pharmacists John Lea & William Perrins manufactures Worcester Sauce  

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 in the year 1837.  

Sep 06   Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio goes co-ed (4 women, 30 men) in the year 1837.  

Sep 15   On this day in history leo van Gheluwe, composer  

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 on this day in history.  

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

Sep 21   On this day in history charles Tiffany founded his jewelry & china stores  

Sep 23   In the year 1837 richard John Samuel Stevens, composer, dies at 80  

Oct 01   "Racer's" Hurricane (Gulf of Mexico) in the year 1837.  

Oct 01   In the year 1837 treaty with Winnebago Indians  

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

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

Oct 09   On this day in history steamboat "Home" sinks off Okracoke NC killing 100  

Oct 11   In the year 1837 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   On this day in history birth of mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara)  

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

Jan 05   On this day in history birth of a Ch Swinburne, writer [or Apr 5]  

Jan 12   In the year 1837 birth of adolf Jensen, composer  

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

Jan 16   James Phillip Simms, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1887 was born in the year 1837.  

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

Jan 20   In the year 1837 john Soane, English architect (Book of Designs), dies at 84  

Jan 23   On this day in history john Field, composer, dies at 54  

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

Feb 13   On this day in history death of mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809