Today in History for Year 1837

Months in Year 1837: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 48 of 48

Jan 22nd - Earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands
Jan 26th - Michigan admitted as 26th US state
Feb 8th - 1st VP chosen by Senate, Richard Johnson (Van Buren admin)
Feb 11th - American Physiological Society organizes in Boston
Feb 13th - Riot in New York due to a combination of poverty and increase in the cost of flour
Feb 25th - 1st US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport
Mar 3rd - Congress increases Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9
Mar 3rd - US president Andrew Jackson & Congress recognizes Republic of Texas
Mar 4th - Martin Van Buren inaugrated as 8th president
Mar 4th - Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American
Mar 4th - Chicago becomes incorporated as a city.
Mar 24th - Canada gives black citizens the right to vote
Apr 19th - Cheyney University forms as the Institute for Colored Youth
May 3rd - The University of Athens is founded.
May 9th - "Sherrod" burns in Mississippi River below Natchez Miss; 175 dies
May 10th - Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
May 17th - Royal Decides installs the Weapon of Belgium firm(ly)
May 25th - The Patriots of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
May 31st - Astor Hotel opens in NYC, it later becomes the Waldorf-Astoria
US President & General Andrew Jackson Jun 11th - The Broad Street Riot occurres in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between English-Americans and Irish-Americans.
Jun 13th - 1st Mormon missionaries to British Isles leave Kirtland, Ohio
Jun 17th - Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent
Jun 18th - Spain gets new Constitution
Jun 20th - England issues its 1st stamp, 1P Queen Victoria
Jun 20th - Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901
Jul 4th - Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
Jul 13th - Queen Victoria is 1st monarch to live in present Buckingham Palace
Jul 25th - 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.
Jul 27th - US Mint opens in Charlotte, NC
Aug 5th - 1st ascent of Mt Marcy (5,344') highest in Adirondack, NY
Aug 28th - Pharmacists John Lea & William Perrins manufactures Worcester Sauce
Sep 6th - Oberlin Collegiate Institute of Ohio goes co-ed (4 women, 30 men)
Sep 21st - Charles Tiffany founded his jewelry & china stores
Oct 1st - "Racer's" Hurricane (Gulf of Mexico)
Inventor Charles Goodyear Oct 1st - Treaty with Winnebago Indians
Oct 9th - Steamboat "Home" sinks off Okracoke NC killing 100
Oct 9th - Meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
Oct 31st - Collision of river boat Monmouth & Trement on Miss; 300 die
Nov 7th - In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy shot dead (age 34) by pro-slavery mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
Nov 8th - Mount Holyoke Seminary in Mass-1st US college founded for women
Nov 15th - Isaac Pitman introduces his steno system
Nov 19th - Floridsdorf-Deutsch Wagram railway in Austria opens
Nov 21st - Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times
Dec 5th - Hector Berlioz' "Requiem," premieres
Dec 5th - Uprising under William Lyon Mackenzie in Canada
Dec 25th - Battle of Okeechobee-US forces defeat Seminole Indians
Dec 29th - Canadian militia destroy Caroline, a US steamboat docked at Buffalo
Dec 29th - Steam-powered threshing machine patented, Winthrop, Maine

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 109

Jan 2nd - Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, composer (Tamara)
Jan 4th - Casimiro de Abreu, Brazil, poet (Camoes e o jau)
Jan 5th - A Ch Swinburne, writer [or Apr 5]
Jan 12th - Adolf Jensen, composer
Jan 12th - Carlos Troyer, composer
Jan 16th - James Phillip Simms, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1887
Jan 19th - William Williams Keen, surgeon (brain)
Jan 20th - David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1910)
Jan 23rd - Amanda Berry Smith, American former slave, singer and evangelist
Feb 5th - Dwight Lyman Moody, US, evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement)
Feb 7th - James Augustus Henry Murray, Scotland, created Oxford Dictionary
Feb 13th - Valentin de Zubiaurre y Unionbarrenechea, composer
Feb 17th - Francis Jay Herron, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902
Feb 17th - Sam[uel] van Houten, Dutch (lib) minister (child labor laws)
Feb 26th - Charles Woeste, Belgian count/min of Justice
Mar 1st - Ion Creanga, Romanian fairy tale author (Amintiti the Copilarie)
Mar 1st - William Dean Howells, US, novelist/critic/editor (Atlantic)
Mar 7th - Henry Draper, Virginia, astro-spectro-photographer (Moon, Jupiter)
Mar 12th - Felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer
Mar 14th - Charles Ammi Cutter, US librarian (Expansive classification)
US President Grover Cleveland (Mar 18th) Mar 18th - Grover Cleveland, [Stephen], NJ, 22nd/24th Pres (1885-89, 93-97)
Mar 19th - Robert Daniel Johnston, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1919
Mar 23rd - Joseph Wieniawski, composer
Mar 24th - Philips, Count of Flanders Belgium
Mar 31st - Robert Ross McBurney, 1st paid secretary of the YMCA
Mar 31st - Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
Apr 3rd - John Burroughs, writer/nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake)
Apr 5th - Algernon Charles Swinburne, England, poet (Atalanta in Calydon)
Apr 10th - Forceythe Willson, American poet (d. 1867)
Apr 11th - Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth, Col (Union Army), died in 1861
Apr 15th - Horace Porter, Bvt Brigadier General (Union Army), died in 1921
Apr 17th - John Pierpont Morgan, US banker/CEO (US Steel)
Apr 17th - J. P. Morgan, American financier (d. 1913)
Apr 21st - Fredrik Bajer, Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1908)
Apr 24th - Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz)
Apr 25th - William Charles Levey, composer
Apr 29th - Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (d. 1891)
Apr 30th - Alfred Gaul, composer
May 2nd - Henry Martyn Robert, parliamentarian (Robert's Rules of Order)
May 9th - Adam Opel, German manufacturer (cycling, motorcars)
May 10th - Pinckney B S Pinchback, Lt gov (Louisiana)
May 23rd - James Sanks Brisbin, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
Folk Hero of the American Old West Wild Bill Hickok (May 27th) May 27th - "Wild Bill" Hickok, [James Butler], cowboy/scout
May 27th - Robert Frederick Hoke, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1912
May 27th - Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter (d. 1887)
May 28th - George Ashlin, Irish architect (d. 1921)
May 28th - Tony Pastor, American vaudeville performer (d. 1908)
May 29th - Alexander F de Savornin Lohmann, Dutch minister/party leader (CHU)
May 29th - Luca Fumagalli, composer
May 31st - Ernest Daudet, French writer (White Terror)
May 31st - Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
May 31st - William Henry Fitzhugh "Rooney" Lee, Major General (Confederate Army)
Jun 7th - Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (d. 1903)
Jun 8th - Jan Kleczynski, composer
Jun 8th - Moriz Heyne, German germanist (Beowulf)
Jun 16th - Eli Long, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1903
Jun 17th - Vincent Strong, civil war fighter, died in 1863
Jun 22nd - Paul Morphy, New Orleans, greatest chess player of all time (1857-61)
Jun 23rd - Ernest Guiraud, composer
Jun 26th - Martin Davis Hardin II, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1923
Jun 26th - Victor Jean Baptiste Girardey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
Jun 30th - Stephen D Ramseur, youngest West Pointer to be Maj Gen
Jul 6th - Wlasyslaw Zelenski, composer
Jul 11th - Paul Lacombe, composer
Jul 15th - Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, queen of Portugal (d. 1859)
Jul 18th - Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1873)
Jul 20th - Hans Sommer, composer
Jul 28th - Christian Barnekow, composer
Jul 30th - Elon John Farnsworth, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
Jul 31st - William Clarke Quantrill, Col (Confederate Army), died in 1865
Aug 1st - Mother Jones, American labor organizer (d. 1930)
Aug 11th - Marie Francois Carnot, engineer/French pres (1887-94); assassinated
Aug 16th - Emile A H Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer
Aug 24th - Theodore Dubois, composer
Aug 27th - Heinrich Urban, composer
Aug 30th - Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, 1st lady (1881-85)
Sep 2nd - James Harrison Wilson, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1925
Sep 14th - Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (d. 1903)
Sep 15th - Leo van Gheluwe, composer
Sep 16th - Pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61)
Sep 18th - Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (d. 1880)
Sep 19th - Adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld, composer
Oct 8th - Otto Winter-Hjelm, composer
Oct 14th - Ellison Capers, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1908
Oct 16th - John Francis Barnett, composer
Oct 18th - Friedrich W Mengelberg, German sculptor/painter
Oct 26th - James Lawlor Kiernan, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1869
Oct 28th - Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japan's last shogun (d. 1913)
Oct 29th - Abraham Kuyper, clergyman/Dutch premier (AR, 1908-12)
Oct 29th - Harriet Powers, US, slave/writer (Creation of Animals)
Nov 2nd - Émile Bayard, French artist, illustrator (d. (1891)
Nov 9th - Alfred Holmes, composer
Nov 9th - Gerrit Jan van Heek, textile factory/politician
Nov 13th - James T. Rapier, American politician (d. 1883)
Nov 17th - David Capriles, director of psychiatry of Monte Christo, Curacao
Nov 17th - Derk J A Haspels, Dutch actor
Nov 17th - Willem Coenen, composer
Physicist/Nobel Laureate Johannes van der Waals (Nov 23rd) Nov 23rd - Johannes van der Waals, Leiden, Netherlands, physicist (Nobel 1910, Liquid & Gas States), (d. 1923)
Nov 28th - John Wesley Hyatt, inventor (celluloid)
Dec 2nd - Charles Garrison Harker, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1864

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

Mar 28th - German composer Felix Mendelssohn (27) marries Cécile Jeanrenaud (20)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 39 of 39

Jan 11th - John Field, Irish pianist/composer (Nocturnes), dies at 54
Jan 20th - John Soane, English architect (Book of Designs), dies at 84
Jan 23rd - John Field, composer, dies at 54
Jan 29th - Aleksandr Pushkin, poet/novelist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel
Feb 7th - King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778)
Feb 10th - Alexander S Pushkin, writer, dies at 37
Feb 12th - Ludwig Borne, writer, dies at 50
Feb 13th - Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809
Feb 19th - Georg Büchner, German playwright (b. 1813)
Mar 13th - Nikita P Panin, Russian diplomat/min of Foreign affairs, dies at 66
Mar 26th - Joseph Lincke, composer, dies at 53
Mar 29th - Maria Fitzherbert, morganatic wife of King George IV, dies
Mar 31st - John Constable, English painter/water colors painter, dies at 60
Apr 17th - Edouard viscount de Walckiers, very wealthy slave trader, dies
May 5th - Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer/bandmaster, dies at 85
May 8th - Alexander Balashov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1770)
May 31st - Joseph Grimaldi, greatest clown (king of pantomime), dies at 57
Jun 14th - Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer (b. 1798)
Jun 16th - Valentino Fioravanti, composer, dies at 72
Jun 19th - Aleksander A Bestoezjev-Marlinsky, Russian writer, dies in battle
Jun 20th - Giovanni Furno, composer, dies at 89
Jun 20th - William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1765)
Jul 24th - Charles Hodges, English/Dutch portrait painter
Jul 28th - John Ross, composer, dies at 73
Aug 1st - Walter Geikie, painter, dies
Aug 9th - Xavier Sigalon, French painter (b. 1787)
Sep 16th - Pedro V van Alcantara, king of Portugal (1853-61), dies
Sep 23rd - Richard John Samuel Stevens, composer, dies at 80
Oct 1st - Robert Clark, American politician (b. 1777)
Oct 5th - Hortense de Beauharnais, French queen of Neth (1806-10), dies at 54
Oct 6th - Jean-Francois Le Sueur, composer, dies at 77
Oct 9th - Charles Fourier, French utopian socialist (Harmony universal), dies
Oct 11th - Samuel Wesley, composer (Exultate Deo), dies at 71
Oct 12th - Frederica Louisa Wilhelmina, Queen of Netherlands, dies at 62
Oct 15th - Ivan Dmitriev, Russian statesman and poet (b. 1760)
Oct 17th - Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Austrian composer, dies at 58
Nov 4th - Jean-Louis M Alibert, French dermatologist, dies at 69
Dec 13th - Herman of Alaska, Russian Orthodox hermit (b. 1756)
Dec 26th - Martinus van Marum, chemist/physicist (giant salamander), dies at 87