A Regency Era Timeline 1837 in Progress

Timeline

Each time I start a year, I have already compiled a list, months ago with about 6000 entered of what happened from 1788 to 1837. My first step now (It took several trials to get this down to a science) is to cut out the specific year I will work on and paste it into its own spreadsheet to work with. When I worked on the entire spreadsheet, sometimes inserting a line, with all the graphics I had begun to place, took a long time. Working on each year alone, is a lot faster.

With the year separated out, I now turn to my book sources,

The Timetables of History by Grun and Stein

Chronology of CULTURE by Paxton and Fairfield

What Happened When by Carruth.

, History of the World. A beautiful Dorealing Kindersley book.

I now diligently look through each of these to find entries that I did not come across on the internet, and other printed lists. It is possible that there are places that have more listings for each year. I have not found them. And when you go to the Timelines at the Regency Assembly Press page, there you will see all the graphical references as well. Something that I did not find anywhere else.

Here is the start of 1837 thru Victoria. (From what I can see now, after starting the project months ago, it looks like I capped things off at the ascension of Victoria):

Year

Month Day

Event



1837

Jan 2

Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (d.1910), composer (Tamara), was born in Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia.



1837

Jan 11

John Field (54), Irish pianist, composer (Nocturnes), died.



1837

Jan 11

Francois Gerard (66), French baron, painter, died.



1837

Jan 22

An earthquake in southern Syria killed thousands.



1837

Jan

26, Michigan became the 26th state of the US.



1837

Feb 5

Dwight L. Moody (d.1899), evangelist, was born. He founded the Moody Bible Institute. “No man can resolve himself into Heaven.”



1837

Feb 7

Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, Scottish lexicographer and editor, was born. He created the Oxford Dictionary.



1837

Feb 8

The Senate selected Richard Mentor Johnson as the vice president of the United States. Johnson was nominated for vice president on the Democratic ticket with Martin Van Buren in 1836. When Johnson failed to receive a majority of the popular vote, the election was thrown into the Senate for the first and only time. Johnson won the election in the Senate by a vote of 33 to 16.



1837

Feb 12

Thomas Moran (d.1926), American painter, was born in Bolton, England. His paintings of Yellowstone helped persuade Congress to designate it a national park.



1837

Feb 13

There was a riot in NY over the high price of flour.



1837

Feb 25

Cheyney University was established in Pennsylvania through the bequest of Richard Humphreys, and became the oldest institution of higher learning for African Americans. It was initially named the African Institute. However, the name was changed several weeks later to the Institute for Colored Youth (ICY). In subsequent years, the university was renamed Cheyney Training School for Teachers (July 1914), Cheyney State Teacher’s College (1951), Cheyney State College (1959), and eventually Cheyney Univ. of Pennsylvania (1983).



1837

Mar 1

William Dean Howells (d.1920), US author, critic and editor, was born. He edited the work of William James at the Atlantic Monthly. “We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another; and only one interest at a time fills these.” “If we like a man’s dream, we call him a reformer; if we don’t like his dream, we call him a crank.”



1837

Mar 3

US President Andrew Jackson and Congress recognized the Republic of Texas.



1837

Mar 3

Congress increased Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9.



1837

Mar 4

Martin Van Buren was inaugurated as 8th President.



1837

Mar 4

When Pres. Jackson left office there followed a financial crash and a bitter depression and the government was again forced to borrow money. Pres. Jackson had returned surplus government funds to the state governments as bonuses.



1837

Mar 4

The Illinois state legislature granted a city charter to Chicago.



1837

Mar 4

Weekly Advocate changed its name to the Colored American.



1837

Mar 17

Upon his return to his home in Tennessee, Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the U.S., proclaimed that he left office “with barely $90 in my pocket.” The old soldier and war hero who had served as president for eight years, spoke those words when he returned to his home in Tennessee.



1837

Mar 18

Stephen Grover Cleveland was born in Caldwell, N.J. He was the 22nd (1885-1889) and 24th (1893-1897) president of the United States, the only President elected for two nonconsecutive terms.



1837

Mar 24

Canada gave blacks the right to vote.



1837

Mar 28

Felix Mendelssohn married Cecile Jeanrenaud.



1837

Mar 31

John Constable (60), English painter, water colors painter, died. His work included some 100 studies of the sky done between 1821-1822. In 2009 Martin Gayford authored “Constable in Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter.”



1837

Apr 3

John Burroughs (d.1921), American author and naturalist, was born. “Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it, until it has passed over us and taken with it a part of ourselves.”



1837

Apr 5

Algernon Charles Swinburne (d.1909), English poet (Atalanta in Calydon), was born.



1837

Apr 15

Horace Porter (d.1921), Bvt Brig General (Union Army), was born.



1837

Apr 17

J. Pierpont Morgan (d.1913), American financier, was born in Hartford, Conn. J.P. Morgan later owned U.S. Steel and International Harvester. In 1999 Jean Strouse published the biography “Morgan: American Financier.”



1837

May 2

Henry Martyn Roberts, parliamentarian (Robert’s Rules of Order).



1837

May 5

Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli (85), Italian composer, bandmaster, died.



1837

May 9

“Sherrod” burned in Mississippi River below Natchez, Miss., and 175 died.



1837

May 27

Legendary gunfighter James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok was born in Troy Grove, IL. As a youth, Hickok helped his father operate an Underground Railroad stop for runaway slaves and during the Civil War became a daring Union scout. After the war Hickok’s fame as a skilled marksman, Indian fighter and frontier marshal grew, leading to a stint as a featured attraction with Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show. On August 2, 1876, Hickok was shot from behind and killed while playing poker in Saloon No. 10 in Deadwood, Dakota Territory. Contrary to his custom, Hickok was sitting with his back to the door.



1837

May 29

Luca Fumagalli, composer, was born.



1837

May 29

Alexander F. de Savornin Lohmann, Dutch minister, party leader (CHU), was born.



1837

May 31

Astor Hotel opened in NYC. It later became the Waldorf-Astoria. John Jacob Astor bought up foreclosed properties during the financial bust. He later sold them for a 10-fold profit.



1837

Jun 17

Vincent Strong, Civil War Union Colonel (killed in action at Gettysburg in 1863), was born.



1837

Jun 20

Queen Victoria (18) ascended the British throne following the death of her uncle, King William IV (b.1765). She ruled for 63 years to 1901.



1837



Morse develops the telegraph and Morse Code. 



1837



Great Western–first ocean-going steamship.



1837



The United States officially recognizes Texas as independent. Mexico does not.



1837



Britain invites the U.S. and France to participate in international patrols to interdict slave ships. The U.S. declines to participate.



1837



May)  Sam Morse patents the telegraph.



1837



A revolt by the French and some Anglos in Canada fails.



1837



In the Japanese city of Osaka in the wake of the famine, rebellion and fire destroy one-fourth of the city before the rebellion is crushed. At Edo (now Tokyo), a U.S. ship arrives to repatriate shipwrecked Japanese sailors, to establish trade and land missionaries. The ship is fired upon and driven away.