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   Nikita P Panin, Russian diplomat/min of Foreign affairs, dies at 66 in the year 1837.   

Mar 14   On this day in history 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   On this day in history robert Daniel Johnston, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1919   

Mar 23   On this day in history joseph Wieniawski, composer   

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

Mar 24   On this day in history philips, Count of Flanders Belgium   

Mar 26   In the year 1837 joseph Lincke, composer, dies at 53   

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

Mar 29   Maria Fitzherbert, morganatic wife of King George IV, dies on this day in history.   

Mar 31   On this day in history death of English landscape painter John Constable.   

Mar 31   In the year 1837 john Constable, English painter/water colors painter, dies at 60   

Mar 31   Robert Ross McBurney, 1st paid secretary of the YMCA in the year 1837.   

Apr 03   On this day in history john Burroughs, writer/nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake)   

Apr 05   In the year 1837 algernon Charles Swinburne, England, poet (Atalanta in Calydon)   

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

Apr 15   On this day in history 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   In the year 1837 the birth of John Pierpont Morgan, American industrialist   

Apr 19   Cheyney University forms as the Institute for Colored Youth in the year 1837.   

Apr 21   Fredrik Bajer, Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1908) in the year 1837.   

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

Apr 25   William Charles Levey, composer on this day in history.   

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   Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer/bandmaster, dies at 85 in the year 1837.   

May 09   "Sherrod" burns in Mississippi River below Natchez Miss; 175 dies on this day in history.   

May 09   "Sherrod" burns in Mississippi River below Natchez MS; 175 dies on this day in history.   

May 09   In the year 1837 adam Opel, German manufacturer (cycling, motorcars)   

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Jan 02   In the year 1837 birth of mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara)   

Jan 04   In the year 1837 birth of casimiro de Abreu, Brazil, poet (Camoes e o jau)   

Jan 05   A Ch Swinburne, writer [or Apr 5] was born in the year 1837.   

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

Jan 12   Carlos Troyer, composer was born in the year 1837.   

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

Jan 23   John Field, composer, dies at 54 in the year 1837.   

Jan 29   In the year 1837 death of aleksandr Pushkin, poet/novelist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel   

Feb 07   On this day in history death of king Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778)   

Feb 10   On this day in history alexander S Pushkin, writer, dies at 37   

Feb 12   In the year 1837 ludwig Borne, writer, dies at 50   

Feb 13   Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809 died on this day in history.