Page 4: Historical Events In 1837

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

Jul 20   Hans Sommer, composer on this day in history.   

Jul 24   Charles Hodges, English/Dutch portrait painter in the year 1837.   

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 in the year 1837.   

Jul 28   In the year 1837 christian Barnekow, composer   

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

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

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   On this day in history 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   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   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   On this day in history james Harrison Wilson, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1925   

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

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

Sep 19   Adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld, composer in the year 1837.   

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

Oct 01   Treaty with Winnebago Indians in the year 1837.   

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

Oct 06   Jean-Francois Le Sueur, composer, dies at 77 on this day in history.   

Oct 08   Otto Winter-Hjelm, composer on this day in history.   

Oct 09   Charles Fourier, French utopian socialist (Harmony universal), dies on this day in history.   

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

Oct 11   Samuel Wesley, composer (Exultate Deo), dies at 71 on this day in history.   

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

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

Jan 12   On this day in history birth of carlos Troyer, composer   

Jan 16   James Phillip Simms, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1887 was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 20   David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910) was born in the year 1837.   

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 in the year 1837.   

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   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   Ludwig Borne, writer, dies at 50 on this day in history.   

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