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   Hans Sommer, composer on this day in history.   

Jul 24   Charles Hodges, English/Dutch portrait painter in the year 1837.   

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   US Mint opens in Charlotte, NC on this day in history.   

Jul 28   Christian Barnekow, composer in the year 1837.   

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   William Clarke Quantrill, Col (Confederate Army), died in 1865 in the year 1837.   

Aug 01   Walter Geikie, painter, dies on this day in history.   

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

Aug 11   In the year 1837 marie Francois Carnot, engineer/French pres (1887-94); assassinated   

Aug 16   Emile A H Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer in the year 1837.   

Aug 24   Theodore Dubois, composer on this day in history.   

Aug 27   Heinrich Urban, composer in the year 1837.   

Aug 28   Pharmacists John Lea & William Perrins manufactures Worcester Sauce on this day in history.   

Aug 30   Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, 1st lady (1881-85) on this day in history.   

Sep 02   On this day in history james Harrison Wilson, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1925   

Sep 06   In the year 1837 oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio goes co-ed (4 women, 30 men)   

Sep 15   Leo van Gheluwe, composer in the year 1837.   

Sep 16   Pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61) in the year 1837.   

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   In the year 1837 richard John Samuel Stevens, composer, dies at 80   

Oct 01   In the year 1837 "Racer's" Hurricane (Gulf of Mexico)   

Oct 01   On this day in history treaty with Winnebago Indians   

Oct 05   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

Oct 09   In the year 1837 charles Fourier, French utopian socialist (Harmony universal), dies   

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

Oct 11   Samuel Wesley, composer (Exultate Deo), dies at 71 on this day in history.   

Oct 12   On this day in history frederica Louisa Wilhelmina, Queen of Netherlands, dies at 62   

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Jan 02   On this day in history birth of mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara)   

Jan 04   On this day in history birth of casimiro de Abreu, Brazil, poet (Camoes e o jau)   

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   Carlos Troyer, composer was born in the year 1837.   

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   On this day in history birth of david Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910)   

Jan 11   John Field, Irish pianist/composer (Nocturnes), dies at 54 in the year 1837.   

Jan 20   John Soane, English architect (Book of Designs), dies at 84 in the year 1837.   

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

Jan 29   Aleksandr Pushkin, poet/novelist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel died on this day in history.   

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 on this day in history.   

Feb 12   On this day in history ludwig Borne, writer, dies at 50   

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