Timeline September 1737

Events in September 1737 8

• 1667 – 1737 Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (1667-1737) Died 22 September 1737, aged 69 Michel Pignolet de Montéclair was a French composer and teacher who helped introduce the double bass into the Paris Opéra orchestra. His opera Jephté of 1732 was the first opera on a biblical subject staged at the Paris Opéra.
• 1667 – 1737 Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (1667-1737) Died 22 September 1737, aged 69 Michel Pignolet de Montéclair was a French composer and teacher who helped introduce the double bass into the Paris Opéra orchestra. His opera Jephté of 1732 was the first opera on a biblical subject staged at the Paris Opéra.
• 1737 – 1806 Johann Michael Haydn (1737-1806) Died 10 August 1806, aged 68 Michael Haydn was a prolific composer of sacred music and the younger brother of Joseph Haydn. He spent most of his career as a court musician and cathedral organist in Salzburg, where he also taught the young Carl Maria von Weber. He died in Salzburg in 1806.
• 1737 University of Göttingen inaugurated Georgia Augusta University formally opens in Hanover Founded by George II as Elector of Hanover, the University of Göttingen was formally inaugurated after teaching had begun a few years earlier. Its scholars had greater freedom from theological control than at most universities of the time, and it soon became one of the leading universities of the German Enlightenment.
• 1737 University of Göttingen inaugurated Georgia Augusta University formally opens in Hanover Founded by George II as Elector of Hanover, the University of Göttingen was formally inaugurated after teaching had begun a few years earlier. Its scholars had greater freedom from theological control than at most universities of the time, and it soon became one of the leading universities of the German Enlightenment.
• 1737 – 1832 Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737-1832) Died 14 November 1832, aged 95 Carroll was a wealthy Maryland planter and statesman who signed the Declaration of Independence and later served as a U.S. senator. By the time of his death he was the last surviving signer of the Declaration. His death closed the final living link to the founding generation of the United States.
• 1737 Walking Purchase in Pennsylvania Proprietors use a staged walk to take Lenape land Pennsylvania's proprietors relied on a disputed 1686 deed that granted land as far as a man could walk in a day and a half. They hired trained runners along a cleared path, who covered about 70 miles. As a result, the Lenape lost roughly 1.2 million acres in the Lehigh Valley.
• 1737 Walking Purchase in Pennsylvania Proprietors use a staged walk to take Lenape land Pennsylvania's proprietors relied on a disputed 1686 deed that granted land as far as a man could walk in a day and a half. They hired trained runners along a cleared path, who covered about 70 miles. As a result, the Lenape lost roughly 1.2 million acres in the Lehigh Valley.