1837 in the United States
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| 1837 in the United States | |
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| Decades: | 1810s 1820s – 1830s – 1840s 1850s |
| Years: | 1834 1835 1836 – 1837 – 1838 1839 1840 |
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Events from the year 1837 in the United States.
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[edit] Incumbents
- President: Andrew Jackson (Democratic) (until March 4), Martin Van Buren (Democratic) (starting March 4)
- Vice President: Martin Van Buren (Democratic) (until March 4), Richard Mentor Johnson (Democratic) (starting March 4)
- Chief Justice: Roger B. Taney
- Speaker of the House of Representatives: James K. Polk (D-Tennessee)
- Congress: 24th (until March 4), 25th (starting March 4)
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- January 10 - DePauw University founded in Greencastle, Indiana.
- January 26 - Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.
- February 4 - Seminoles attack Fort Foster.
- February 8 - Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
- February 11 - American Physiological Society organizes in Boston.
- February 15 - Knox College founded in Galesburg, Illinois
- February 25
- In Philadelphia, The Institute for Colored Youth (ICY) is founded as the first institution for the higher education of coloreds.
- Thomas Davenport obtains the first United States patent on an electric motor.[1]
- March 4
- Martin Van Buren succeeds Andrew Jackson as President of the United States.
- Chicago is granted a city charter by Illinois.
- May 10 - Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
- June 5 - Houston, Texas, is granted a city charter.
- June 11 - The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, Massachusetts, fueled by ethnic tensions between the Irish and the Yankees.
- 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.
- October 21 - General Thomas Jessup captures Osceola in pretext of negotiations
- November 7 - In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot and killed by a pro-slavery mob while he attempts to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
- November 8 - Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which will later become Mount Holyoke College.
[edit] Ongoing
- Second Seminole War (1835–1842)
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[edit] References
- ^ U.S. Patent No. 132. "Improvement in Propelling Machinery by Magnetism And Electro-Magnetism". Google patents. http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=NM0-AAAAEBAJ&dq=%22Thomas+Davenport%22. Retrieved 2011-12-13.
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