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   In the year 1837 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   On this day in history uS Mint opens in Charlotte, NC  

Jul 28   On this day in history christian Barnekow, composer  

Jul 28   On this day in history john Ross, composer, dies at 73  

Jul 30   Elon John Farnsworth, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863 on this day in history.  

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

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

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

Aug 11   In the year 1837 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 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 on this day in history.  

Aug 30   Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, 1st lady (1881-85) in the year 1837.  

Sep 02   James Harrison Wilson, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1925 on this day in history.  

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 on this day in history.  

Sep 16   Pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61) on this day in history.  

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 in the year 1837.  

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

Oct 01   Treaty with Winnebago Indians on this day in history.  

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

Oct 06   On this day in history 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   In the year 1837 steamboat "Home" sinks off Okracoke NC killing 100  

Oct 11   In the year 1837 samuel Wesley, composer (Exultate Deo), dies at 71  

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

Jan 12   In the year 1837 birth of carlos Troyer, composer  

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

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

Jan 20   In the year 1837 birth of david Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910)  

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 on this day in history.  

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 in the year 1837.  

Feb 10   Alexander S Pushkin, writer, dies at 37 on this day in history.  

Feb 12   Ludwig Borne, writer, dies at 50 in the year 1837.  

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