1837

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Years:	1834 1835 1836 - 1837 - 1838 1839 1840

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[edit] Events of 1837

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, Illinois 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.

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.

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.

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)

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)

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

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