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   In the year 1837 hans Sommer, composer   

Jul 24   In the year 1837 charles Hodges, English/Dutch portrait painter   

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   On this day in history uS Mint opens in Charlotte, NC   

Jul 28   In the year 1837 christian Barnekow, composer   

Jul 28   On this day in history john Ross, composer, dies at 73   

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

Jul 31   On this day in history william Clarke Quantrill, Col (Confederate Army), died in 1865   

Aug 01   In the year 1837 walter Geikie, painter, dies   

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

Aug 24   In the year 1837 theodore Dubois, composer   

Aug 27   In the year 1837 heinrich Urban, composer   

Aug 28   In the year 1837 pharmacists John Lea & William Perrins manufactures Worcester Sauce   

Aug 30   Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, 1st lady (1881-85) in the year 1837.   

Sep 02   In the year 1837 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   In the year 1837 leo van Gheluwe, composer   

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 on this day in history.   

Sep 19   In the year 1837 adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld, composer   

Sep 21   On this day in history charles Tiffany founded his jewelry & china stores   

Sep 23   On this day in history richard John Samuel Stevens, composer, dies at 80   

Oct 01   "Racer's" Hurricane (Gulf of Mexico) on this day in history.   

Oct 01   On this day in history treaty with Winnebago Indians   

Oct 05   In the year 1837 hortense de Beauharnais, French queen of Neth (1806-10), dies at 54   

Oct 06   On this day in history 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 in the year 1837.   

Oct 09   Steamboat "Home" sinks off Okracoke NC killing 100 in the year 1837.   

Oct 11   In the year 1837 samuel Wesley, composer (Exultate Deo), dies at 71   

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 in the year 1837.   

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   In the year 1837 birth of adolf Jensen, composer   

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

Jan 16   James Phillip Simms, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1887 was born in the year 1837.   

Jan 19   On this day in history birth of william Williams Keen, surgeon (brain)   

Jan 20   David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910) was born on this day in history.   

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

Jan 20   John Soane, English architect (Book of Designs), dies at 84 on this day in history.   

Jan 23   On this day in history john Field, composer, dies at 54   

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

Feb 07   King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778) died on this day in history.   

Feb 10   Alexander S Pushkin, writer, dies at 37 in the year 1837.   

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