Page 2: Historical Events In 1837

Mar 04   Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American on this day in history.   

Mar 07   In the year 1837 henry Draper, Virginia, astro-spectro-photographer (Moon, Jupiter)   

Mar 12   In the year 1837 felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer   

Mar 13   On this day in history nikita P Panin, Russian diplomat/min of Foreign affairs, dies at 66   

Mar 14   In the year 1837 charles Ammi Cutter, US librarian (Expansive classification)   

Mar 18   Grover Cleveland, [Stephen], NJ, 22nd/24th Pres (1885-89, 93-97) in the year 1837.   

Mar 19   Robert Daniel Johnston, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1919 on this day in history.   

Mar 23   In the year 1837 joseph Wieniawski, composer   

Mar 24   Canada gives blacks the right to vote in the year 1837.   

Mar 24   Philips, Count of Flanders Belgium on this day in history.   

Mar 26   Joseph Lincke, composer, dies at 53 in the year 1837.   

Mar 28   On this day in history felix Mendelssohn marries Cécile Jeanrenaud   

Mar 29   In the year 1837 maria Fitzherbert, morganatic wife of King George IV, dies   

Mar 31   Death of English landscape painter John Constable in the year 1837.   

Mar 31   John Constable, English painter/water colors painter, dies at 60 on this day in history.   

Mar 31   In the year 1837 robert Ross McBurney, 1st paid secretary of the YMCA   

Apr 03   In the year 1837 john Burroughs, writer/nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake)   

Apr 05   Algernon Charles Swinburne, England, poet (Atalanta in Calydon) on this day in history.   

Apr 11   Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth, Col (Union Army), died in 1861 on this day in history.   

Apr 15   In the year 1837 horace Porter, Bvt Brig General (Union Army), died in 1921   

Apr 17   In the year 1837 edouard viscount de Walckiers, very wealthy slave trader, dies   

Apr 17   John Pierpont Morgan, US banker/CEO (US Steel) in the year 1837.   

Apr 17   The birth of John Pierpont Morgan, American industrialist on this day in history.   

Apr 19   On this day in history cheyney University forms as the Institute for Colored Youth   

Apr 21   In the year 1837 fredrik Bajer, Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1908)   

Apr 24   Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz) on this day in history.   

Apr 25   William Charles Levey, composer in the year 1837.   

Apr 30   In the year 1837 alfred Gaul, composer   

May 02   Henry Martyn Robert, parliamentarian (Robert's Rules of Order) in the year 1837.   

May 03   The University of Athens is founded in the year 1837.   

May 05   On this day in history niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer/bandmaster, dies at 85   

May 09   "Sherrod" burns in Mississippi River below Natchez Miss; 175 dies in the year 1837.   

May 09   "Sherrod" burns in Mississippi River below Natchez MS; 175 dies in the year 1837.   

May 09   Adam Opel, German manufacturer (cycling, motorcars) 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   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   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   On this day in history birth of william Williams Keen, surgeon (brain)   

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

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   In the year 1837 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   In the year 1837 alexander S Pushkin, writer, dies at 37   

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