Page 4: Historical Events In 1838

Jul 17   John Whites, hydraulic engineer, dies at 82   

Jul 19   Frederic Nicolas Duvernoy, composer, dies at 72.   

Jul 19   Joel Asaph Allen, US zoologist (Rule of Allen)   

Jul 23   Edouard [Judas] Colonne, composer/violinist   

Jul 28   Bernhard Henrik Crusell, composer, dies at 62.   

Jul 29   Jonathan Huntington, composer, dies at 66   

Jul 30   Eugen Richter, German parliament member (Liberal).   

Aug 01   Emancipation of British slaves on Bahamas.   

Aug 12   Joseph Barnby, conductor/academic principal   

Aug 18   1st US marine expedition.   

Aug 18   inaugural US marine expedition.   

Aug 21   A v Chamisso, writer, dies at 57   

Aug 23   Mt Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) 1st graduating class.   

Aug 23   Mt Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) inaugural graduating class.   

Sep 01   William Clark, 2nd lt of Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies at 68   

Sep 02   Liliuokalani, [Lydia Paki], last queen of Hawaii (1891-93)   

Sep 03   Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a sailor   

Sep 05   Central Museum opens in Utrecht Netherlands.   

Sep 07   Joseph Panny, composer, dies at 43.   

Sep 08   Pietro Rovelli, composer, dies at 45   

Sep 10   Hector Berlioz' opera "Benvenuto Cellini," premieres in Paris   

Sep 11   John Ireland, Irish/US archbishop of St Paul.   

Sep 14   John Pelham, Major (Confederate Army), died in 1863.   

Sep 16   James J Hill, Canada, RR entrepreneur (Great Northern Railroad)   

Sep 18   Anti-Corn Law League established by Richard Cobden.   

Sep 18   Anton Mauve, painter/graphic artist/cousin of Vincent Van Gogh   

Sep 19   Ephraim Morris patents railroad brake.   

Sep 23   Victoria Chaflin Woodhull, Ohio US, feminist/reformer   

Sep 24   Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law   

Sep 27   Antony E J Modderman, Dutch minister of Justice (1879-83)   

Sep 29   Henry Hobson Richardson, St James LA, Romanesque revival architect.   

Oct 01   Civil Code enforced (- Jan 1, 1992)   

Oct 04   Eleanore Sophia Maria Westenholz, composer, dies at 79.   

Oct 08   John Milton Hay, politician (Union), died in 1905   

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Jan 01   William Hugh Young, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901 was born in the year 1838.   

Jan 04   On this day in history birth of charles Stratton, [General Tom Thumb] (famous short person)   

Jan 05   In the year 1838 birth of camille Jordan, French mathematician (d. 1922)   

Jan 06   On this day in history birth of max Bruch, Koln (Cologne), Germany, composer   

Jan 16   Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917) was born on this day in history.   

Feb 06   Henry Irving, [John H Brodribb], Engld, knighted 1895/actor (Hamlet) was born in the year 1838.   

Feb 06   On this day in history birth of yisrael Meir Kagan, Chofetz Chayim (d. 1933)   

Feb 12   On this day in history birth of charles Carroll Walcott, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1898   

Jan 13   In the year 1838 ferdinand Reis, composer, dies at 53   

Jan 16   Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 [OS] on this day in history.   

Jan 20   In the year 1838 pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, composer, dies at 64   

Jan 23   Arnold A Buyskes, Dutch vice-admiral/colonial director, dies at 67 in the year 1838.   

Jan 28   Aleksandr I Polezjajev, Russian poet (Sasjka), dies at 33 [NS] in the year 1838.   

Jan 30   Osceola, chief of Seminole indians, dies in jail in the year 1838.   

Feb 01   Abraham de Veer, Dutch gov-gen of Suriname (1822-28), dies at 71 on this day in history.   

Feb 05   Philippe Libon, composer, dies at 62 on this day in history.