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).

Contents

Events of 1837

January - March

April - June

July - September

October - December

Undated

Births

January - June

July - December

Unknown dates

Deaths

January - June

July - December

Unknown dates

Events of 1837

January - March

★ January 26 - Michigan is the 26th state admitted to the United States of America.

★ February 4 - Seminoles attack Fort Foster.

★ February 7 - God speaks to Florence Nightingale, according to her account.

★ 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.

★ March 4 - City of Chicago, Illinois is incorporated.

April - June

★ 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 ascends to the throne.

July - September

★ July 29 - Spanish government auctions the church property.

★ August 16 - Dutch sack of the fortress of Bonjol, ending the Padri War.

October - December

★ 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.

★ 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.

★ 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

★ January 2 - Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (d. 1910)

★ February 5 - Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist (d. 1899)

★ 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)

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 29 - African-American folk artist Harriet Powers, now nationally recognized for her quilts (d. 1910)

★ November 2 - Émile Bayard, French artist, illustrator (d. 1891)

★ November 14 - Lucas Barrett, English naturalist (d. 1862)

★ November 23 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)

★ December 26 - George Dewey, U.S. naval officer (d. 1917)

Unknown dates

★ Sarah Lockwood Pardee, American builder of the Winchester Mystery House (d. 1922)

★ Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish activist, pułkownik (d. after 1901)
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Deaths

January - June

★ 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)

July - December

★ October 1 - Robert Clark, American politician (b. 1777)

★ October 5 - Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland and mother of Napoleon III of France (b. 1783)

★ November 7 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (b. 1809)

★ December 13 - Saint Herman of Alaska

Unknown dates

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