Page 2: Historical Events In 1837

Mar 04   Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American in the year 1837.   

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

Mar 12   Felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer on this day in history.   

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

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) on this day in history.   

Mar 19   Robert Daniel Johnston, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1919 in the year 1837.   

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 on this day in history.   

Mar 28   In the year 1837 felix Mendelssohn marries Cécile Jeanrenaud   

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

Mar 31   In the year 1837 death of English landscape painter John Constable.   

Mar 31   On this day in history 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   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   In the year 1837 ephraim Elmer Ellsworth, Col (Union Army), died in 1861   

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   On this day in history john Pierpont Morgan, US banker/CEO (US Steel)   

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

Apr 19   In the year 1837 cheyney University forms as the Institute for Colored Youth   

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

Apr 24   Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz) in the year 1837.   

Apr 25   On this day in history william Charles Levey, composer   

Apr 30   On this day in history alfred Gaul, composer   

May 02   In the year 1837 henry Martyn Robert, parliamentarian (Robert's Rules of Order)   

May 03   The University of Athens is founded on this day in history.   

May 05   In the year 1837 niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer/bandmaster, dies at 85   

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

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

May 09   Adam Opel, German manufacturer (cycling, motorcars) in the year 1837.   

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Jan 02   Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara) was born in the year 1837.   

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

Jan 05   On this day in history birth of a Ch Swinburne, writer [or Apr 5]   

Jan 12   On this day in history 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   In the year 1837 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   John Field, Irish pianist/composer (Nocturnes), dies at 54 in the year 1837.   

Jan 20   On this day in history john Soane, English architect (Book of Designs), dies at 84   

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 in the year 1837.   

Feb 07   On this day in history 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 on this day in history.   

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