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   On this day in history hans Sommer, composer   

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   On this day in history uS Mint opens in Charlotte, NC   

Jul 28   Christian Barnekow, composer on this day in history.   

Jul 28   John Ross, composer, dies at 73 in the year 1837.   

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 in the year 1837.   

Aug 01   On this day in history walter Geikie, painter, dies   

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

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

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

Aug 24   Theodore Dubois, composer in the year 1837.   

Aug 27   Heinrich Urban, composer in the year 1837.   

Aug 28   On this day in history pharmacists John Lea & William Perrins manufactures Worcester Sauce   

Aug 30   Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, 1st lady (1881-85) on this day in history.   

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) on this day in history.   

Sep 15   In the year 1837 leo van Gheluwe, composer   

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

Sep 16   In the year 1837 pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61), dies   

Sep 19   In the year 1837 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   "Racer's" Hurricane (Gulf of Mexico) on this day in history.   

Oct 01   In the year 1837 treaty with Winnebago Indians   

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

Oct 06   On this day in history jean-Francois Le Sueur, composer, dies at 77   

Oct 08   In the year 1837 otto Winter-Hjelm, composer   

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

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

Oct 11   Samuel Wesley, composer (Exultate Deo), dies at 71 in the year 1837.   

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

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

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

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 on this day in history.   

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   Aleksandr Pushkin, poet/novelist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel died on this day in history.   

Feb 07   In the year 1837 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   On this day in history death of mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809