Page 4: Historical Events In 1837

Jul 13   On this day in history queen Victoria is 1st monarch to live in present Buckingham Palace   

Jul 20   On this day in history hans Sommer, composer   

Jul 24   Charles Hodges, English/Dutch portrait painter on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

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

Jul 30   On this day in history 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   In the year 1837 walter Geikie, painter, dies   

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

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

Aug 16   In the year 1837 emile A H Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer   

Aug 24   In the year 1837 theodore Dubois, composer   

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   On this day in history 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   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   On this day in history pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61)   

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   On this day in history "Racer's" Hurricane (Gulf of Mexico)   

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   In the year 1837 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 on this day in history.   

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   Frederica Louisa Wilhelmina, Queen of Netherlands, dies at 62 on this day in history.   

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

Jan 04   In the year 1837 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   Adolf Jensen, composer was born in the year 1837.   

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

Jan 16   On this day in history birth of james Phillip Simms, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1887   

Jan 19   William Williams Keen, surgeon (brain) was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 11   On this day in history john Field, Irish pianist/composer (Nocturnes), dies at 54   

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

Jan 23   In the year 1837 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   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   Ludwig Borne, writer, dies at 50 on this day in history.   

Feb 13   In the year 1837 death of mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809