1837
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This article is about the year 1837.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
| Decades: | 1800s 1810s 1820s – 1830s – 1840s 1850s 1860s |
| Years: | 1834 1835 1836 – 1837 – 1838 1839 1840 |
| 1837 in topic: |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1837 MDCCCXXXVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2590 |
| Armenian calendar | 1286 ԹՎ ՌՄՁԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6587 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -7–-6 |
| Bengali calendar | 1244 |
| Berber calendar | 2787 |
| British Regnal year | 7 Will. 4 – 1 Vict. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2381 |
| Burmese calendar | 1199 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7345–7346 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙申年十一月廿五日 (4473/4533-11-25) — to —
丁酉年十二月初五日(4474/4534-12-5) |
| Coptic calendar | 1553–1554 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1829–1830 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5597–5598 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1893–1894 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1759–1760 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4938–4939 |
| Holocene calendar | 11837 |
| Igbo calendar | |
| - Ǹrí Ìgbò | 837–838 |
| Iranian calendar | 1215–1216 |
| Islamic calendar | 1252–1253 |
| Japanese calendar | Tenpō 8 (天保8年) |
| Juche calendar | N/A (before 1912) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 12 days |
| Korean calendar | 4170 |
| Minguo calendar | 75 before ROC 民前75年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2380 |
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Year 1837 (MDCCCXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar.
Events[edit]
January–March[edit]
- January 1 – Galilee earthquake.
- January 26 – Michigan becomes the 26th state admitted to the United States.
- February – Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist begins publication in serial form in London.
- February 4 – Seminoles attack Fort Foster in Florida.
- February 25 – In Philadelphia, The Institute for Colored Youth (ICY) is founded as the first institution for the higher education of black people in the United States.
- March 4
- Martin Van Buren succeeds Andrew Jackson as President of the United States.
- The city of Chicago is incorporated.
April–June[edit]
- May – Samuel Morse patents the telegraph.
- May 10 – The Panic of 1837 begins in New York City.
- June 5 – The city of Houston, is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
- June 11 – The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, Massachusetts, fueled by ethnic tensions between the Irish and the Yankees.
- June 20 – 18-year-old Queen Victoria accedes to the throne of the United Kingdom on the death of her uncle William IV without legitimate heirs. She will reign for more than 63 years.[1] Under Salic law, the Kingdom of Hanover passes to William's brother, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, ending the personal union of Britain and Hanover which has persisted since 1714.
July–September[edit]
- July – Charles W. King sets sail on the American merchant ship Morrison. In the Morrison Incident, he is turned away from Japanese ports with cannon fire.
- July 13 – Queen Victoria moves from Kensington Palace into Buckingham Palace, the first reigning British monarch to make this, rather than St James's Palace, her London home.[2]
- August 16 – The Dutch sack the fortress of Bonjol, ending the Padri War.
- September – Battle of Aranzueque: Liberal victory for the forces loyal to Queen Isabel II of Spain, end of the Carlist campaign known as the Expedición Real – The First Carlist War.
October–December[edit]
- October 10 - October 13 – The French army besieges and captures Constantine in French Algeria.
- November 7 – American abolitionist and newspaper editor Elijah Lovejoy is killed by a pro-slavery mob, at his warehouse in Alton, Illinois.
- November 8 – Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, later Mount Holyoke College, is founded in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
- November–December – In the Canadas, William Lyon Mackenzie leads the Upper Canada Rebellion and Louis-Joseph Papineau leads the Lower Canada Rebellion.
- December 17 – Fire in the Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg.
Date unknown[edit]
- 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 the daguerreotype.
- The 5th century BC Berlin Foundry Cup is acquired for the Antikensammlung Berlin in Germany.
Births[edit]
January–June[edit]
- January 2 – Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (d. 1910)
- January 7 – Thomas Henry Ismay, known for acquiring the WSL flag
- February 5 – Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist (d. 1899)
- February 13 – Valentin Zubiaurre, Spanish composer (d. 1914)
- 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)
- April 29 – Georges Ernest Boulanger, French general and politician (d. 1891)
- 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)
- May 28 – Tony Pastor, American impresario and theater owner (d. 1908)
- June 22 – Paul Morphy, American chess player (d. 1884)
- June 22 – Touch the Clouds, Native American Minneconjou chief 7 feet tall (d. 1905)
- June 22 – Paul Bachmann, German mathematician (d. 1920)
July–December[edit]
- 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 2 – James H. Wilson, Major General in the American Civil War (d. 1925)
- September 14 – Nikolai Bugaev, prominent Russian mathematician (d.1903)
- September 12 – Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (d. 1892)
- September 16 – King Pedro V of Portugal (d. 1861)
- September 18 – Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (d. 1880)
- October 3 – Nicolás Avellaneda, Argentine president (d. 1885)
- October 10 – Robert Gould Shaw, American Civil War General, reformer (d. 1863)
- October 28 – Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the 15th and the last shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate (d. 1913)
- October 29 – Harriet Powers, African-American folk artist (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)
Date unknown[edit]
- Mary Harris Jones ("Mother Jones"), Irish-American labor leader (d. 1930)
Deaths[edit]
January–June[edit]
- 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)
- May 20 – Landgrave Frederick of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) (b. 1747)
- June 14 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer (b. 1798)
- June 20 – King William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1765)
July–December[edit]
- September 7 – Fabian Gottlieb von Osten-Sacken, Russian military leader (b. 1752)
- September 21 – Pieter Vreede, Dutch politician (b. 1750)
- September 28 – Akbar Shah II, last Mughal emperor of India (b. 1760)
- October 1 – Robert Clark, American politician (b. 1777)
- October 10 – Charles Fourier, philosopher (b. 1772)
- October 12 – Charles-Marie Denys de Damrémont, French governor-general of French Algeria, killed during the siege of Constantine (b. 1783)
- November 7 – Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (b. 1809)
References[edit]
- ^ "Icons, a portrait of England 1820–1840". Archived from the original on 22 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-12.
- ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
