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).
Events of 1837
January - March
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January 26 -
Michigan is the 26th state admitted to the
United States of America.
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February 4 -
Seminoles attack
Fort Foster.
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February 7 - God speaks to
Florence Nightingale, according to her account.
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February 25 - In
Philadelphia, The
Institute for Colored Youth (ICY) was founded as the first institution for higher education of Blacks.
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March 4 -
Martin Van Buren succeeds
Andrew Jackson as the
President of the United States.
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March 4 - City of
Chicago,
Illinois is incorporated.
April - June
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June 5 - City of
Houston, Texas is incorporated by the
Republic of Texas.
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June 11 - The
Broad Street Riot occurred in
Boston, Massachusetts, fueled by racial tensions between Irish-Americans and English-Americans.
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June 20 -
Queen Victoria, monarch of the
United Kingdom ascends to the throne.
July - September
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July 29 -
Spanish government
auctions the church property.
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August 16 -
Dutch sack of the fortress of
Bonjol, ending the
Padri War.
October - December
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November 7 - American abolitionist and newspaper editor
Elijah Lovejoy is killed by a pro-
slavery mob.
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November 8 - Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, later
Mount Holyoke College, was founded in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
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December 4 - William Lyon Mackenzie, a radical reformer in Upper Canada (Ontario), leads a futile and short-lived rebellion against the colonial legislature.
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.
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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.
Births
January - June
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January 2 -
Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (d.
1910)
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February 5 -
Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist (d.
1899)
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March 1 -
William Dean Howells, American writer, historian, editor, and politician (d.
1920)
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March 7 -
Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (d.
1882)
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March 18 -
Grover Cleveland,
President of the United States (d.
1908)
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March 23 -
Charles Wyndham, English actor and theatrical manager (d.
1919)
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April 5 -
Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (d.
1909)
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April 17 -
John Pierpont Morgan, American financier and banker (d.
1913)
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April 21 -
Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician and pacifist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1922)
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May 9 -
Adam Opel, German engineer and industrialist (d.
1895)
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May 27 -
Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (d.
1876)
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May 28 -
George Ashlin, Irish Architect (d.
1921)
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June 22 -
Paul Morphy, American chess player (d.
1884)
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June 22 -
Paul Bachmann, German mathematician (d.
1920)
July - December
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July 4 -
Carolus-Duran, French painter (d.
1917)
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July 18 -
Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary (d.
1873)
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August 24 -
Théodore Dubois, French composer (d.
1924)
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September 14 -
Nikolai Bugaev, prominent Russian mathematician (d.
1903)
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September 16 - King
Pedro V of Portugal (d.
1861)
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September 18 -
Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (d.
1880)
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October 29 - African-American folk artist
Harriet Powers, now nationally recognized for her quilts (d.
1910)
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November 2 -
Émile Bayard, French artist, illustrator (d.
1891)
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November 14 -
Lucas Barrett, English naturalist (d.
1862)
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November 23 -
Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1923)
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December 26 -
George Dewey, U.S. naval officer (d.
1917)
Unknown dates
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Sarah Lockwood Pardee, American builder of the Winchester Mystery House (d.
1922)
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Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish activist, pułkownik (d. after
1901)
: ''See also .''
Deaths
January - June
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January 20 -
John Soane, British architect (b.
1753)
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January 23 -
John Field, Irish composer (b.
1782)
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February 7 -
Gustav IV Adolf, ex-King of Sweden (b.
1778)
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February 10 -
Alexander Pushkin, Russian author (b.
1799)
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February 19,
Georg Büchner, German playwright (b.
1813)
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March 31 -
John Constable, English painter (b.
1776)
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April 28 -
Joseph Souham, French general (b.
1760)
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June 14 -
Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer (b.
1798)
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June 20 - King
William IV of the United Kingdom (b.
1765)
July - December
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October 1 -
Robert Clark, American politician (b.
1777)
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October 5 -
Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland and mother of
Napoleon III of France (b.
1783)
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November 7 -
Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (b.
1809)
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December 13 -
Saint Herman of Alaska
Unknown dates
★ (none)
: ''See also .''
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