1837

Year 1837 (MDCCCXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events of 1837

[edit] January - June

June 20: Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1837-1901).

• January 26 - Michigan is the 26th state admitted to the United States of America.
• February 4 - Seminoles attack Fort Foster.
• February 25 - In Philadelphia, The Institute for Colored Youth (ICY) was founded as the first institution for higher education of Blacks.
• March 4
  • Martin Van Buren succeeds Andrew Jackson as the President of the United States.
  • City of Chicago is incorporated.
• May 10 - Panic of 1837 begins in New York City.
• June 5 - City of Houston, Texas is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
• June 11 - The Broad Street Riot occurred in Boston, Massachusetts, fueled by racial tensions between Irish-Americans and English-Americans.
• June 20 - Queen Victoria, monarch of the United Kingdom accedes to the throne.

[edit] July - December

• July 29 - Spanish government auctions the church property.
• August 16 - Dutch sack of the fortress of Bonjol, ending the Padri War.
• November 7 - American abolitionist and newspaper editor Elijah Lovejoy is killed by a pro-slavery mob.
• November 8 - Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, later Mount Holyoke College, was founded in South Hadley, Massachusetts.

[edit] Undated

• In the Canadas, William Lyon Mackenzie leads the Upper Canada Rebellion and Louis-Joseph Papineau leads the Lower Canada Rebellion.
• At Le Mans, France, Father Basil Moreau, CSC founds the Congregation of Holy Cross by joining the Brothers of St. Joseph and the Auxiliary Priests of Le Mans.
• Louis Daguerre develops daguerreotype.
• Samuel Morse patents telegraph.
• In the Morrison Incident, the American merchant ship Morrison was turned away from Japanese ports with cannon fire.
• Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist begins appearing in print in serialized form. It will later be published as a book.

[edit] Births

[edit] January - June

• January 2 - Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (d. 1910)
• February 5 - Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist (d. 1899)
• January 7 - Thomas Henry Ismay, known for acquiring the WSL flag.
• March 1 - William Dean Howells, American writer, historian, editor, and politician (d. 1920)
• March 7 - Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (d. 1882)
• March 18 - Grover Cleveland, President of the United States (d. 1908)
• March 23 - Charles Wyndham, English actor and theatrical manager (d. 1919)
• April 5 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (d. 1909)
• April 17 - John Pierpont Morgan, American financier and banker (d. 1913)
• April 21 - Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1922)
• May 9 - Adam Opel, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1895)
• May 27 - Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (d. 1876)
• May 28 - George Ashlin, Irish Architect (d. 1921)
• June 22 - Paul Morphy, American chess player (d. 1884)
• June 22 - Paul Bachmann, German mathematician (d. 1920)

[edit] July - December

• July 4 - Carolus-Duran, French painter (d. 1917)
• July 18 - Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1873)
• August 24 - Théodore Dubois, French composer (d. 1924)
• September 14 - Nikolai Bugaev, prominent Russian mathematician (d.1903)
• September 16 - King Pedro V of Portugal (d. 1861)
• September 18 - Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (d. 1880)
• October 10 - Robert Gould Shaw, American Civil War General, reformer (d. 1863)
• October 29 - African-American folk artist Harriet Powers (d. 1910)
• November 2 - Émile Bayard, French artist, illustrator (d. 1891)
• November 5 - Saint Arnold Janssen (d. 1909)
• November 14 - Lucas Barrett, English naturalist (d. 1862)
• November 20 - Lewis Waterman, American inventor and businessman (d.1901)
• November 23 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
• December 15 - George B. Post American architect (d. 1913)
• December 26 - George Dewey, U.S. naval officer (d. 1917)

[edit] Unknown dates

• Sarah Lockwood Pardee, American builder of the Winchester Mystery House (d. 1922)
• Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish activist, pułkownik (d. after 1901)

See also Category: 1837 births.

[edit] Deaths

• January 20 - John Soane, British architect (b. 1753)
• January 23 - John Field, Irish composer (b. 1782)
• February 7 - Gustav IV Adolf, ex-King of Sweden (b. 1778)
• February 10 - Alexander Pushkin, Russian author (b. 1799)
• February 19, Georg Büchner, German playwright (b. 1813)
• March 31 - John Constable, English painter (b. 1776)
• April 28 - Joseph Souham, French general (b. 1760)
• June 14 - Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer (b. 1798)
• June 20 - King William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1765)
• October 1 - Robert Clark, American politician (b. 1777)
• November 7 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (b. 1809)

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