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1837 (MDCCCXXXVII)
was a common year starting
on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and
a common
year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1837th year of
the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the
837th year of the 2nd millennium,
the 37th year of the 19th century,
and the 8th year of the 1830s decade. As of
the start of 1837, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian
calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January–March[edit] ·
January 1 – The destructive Galilee
earthquake causes 6,000–7,000 casualties in Ottoman Syria. ·
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 is sworn in,
as the eighth President of the United States. ·
The
city of Chicago is incorporated. April–June[edit] ·
April 12 – The conglomerate of Procter & Gamble has
its origins, when British-born businessmen William Procter and James Gamble
begin selling their first manufactured goods (soap and candles) in Cincinnati, Ohio.[1] ·
May – W. F. Cooke and Charles Wheatstone patent
a system of electrical telegraph. ·
May 10 – The Panic of 1837 begins in New York City. ·
June 5 – The settlement 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 14 – The worldly famous Italian
poet Giacomo Leopardi dies
in Naples. ·
June 20 – Queen Victoria, 18, accedes to the throne of
the United Kingdom, on the death of her uncle William IVwithout legitimate
heirs (she will reign for more than 63 years).[2] 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. June 20: Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom
(1837–1901). 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.[3] ·
August 16 – The Dutch sack the fortress of Bonjol, Indonesia, ending the Padri War. ·
September – First Carlist War – Battle of Aranzueque: The liberal forces loyal to
Queen Isabel II of
Spain are victorious, ending the Carlist campaign known as the Expedición Real. ·
September 28 – Samuel Morse files a caveat for a
patent for the telegraph.[4] October–December[edit] ·
October 10–13 – The French army besieges and
captures Constantine in French Algeria. ·
October 22 – Henry David Thoreau makes
his first journal entry, at the suggestion of Ralph Waldo Emerson. ·
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 breaks out
in the Winter Palace, in Saint Petersburg, Russia killing 30 guards ·
December 29 – The Caroline Affair,
on the Niagara River,
becomes the basis for the Caroline test for
anticipatory self-defence in international
relations. Date unknown[edit] L’Atelier de l'artiste. An 1837 daguerreotype by Louis Daguerre. ·
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 B.C. Berlin Foundry Cup is
acquired, for the Antikensammlung Berlin in Germany. ·
Sylvain Charles Valée and French troops capture Skikda, Algeria.[5] ·
The Olney Friends School is
founded. Births[edit] January–June[edit] ·
January 2 – Mily Balakirev,
Russian composer (d. 1910) ·
January 7 – Thomas Henry Ismay, English shipowner (White Star Line)
(d. 1899) ·
Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist
(d. 1899) ·
Edward Miner
Gallaudet, American educator of the deaf (d. 1917) ·
February 13 – Valentin Zubiaurre, Spanish composer (d. 1914) ·
February 20 – Samuel Swett Green,
American librarian, advocate (d. 1918) ·
March 1 – William Dean Howells,
American writer, historian, editor and politician (d. 1920) ·
March 3 – Jacques Duchesne, French general (d. 1918) ·
March 7 – Henry Draper, American physician and
astronomer (d. 1882) ·
March 18 – Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President
of the United States (d. 1908) ·
March 22 – Virginia
Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione (d. 1899) ·
March 23 – Charles Wyndham,
English actor, theatrical manager (d. 1919) ·
March 27 – Kate Fox, American medium (d. 1892) ·
April 5 – Algernon
Charles Swinburne, English poet (d. 1909) ·
April 17 – John Pierpont Morgan, American financier,
banker (d. 1913) ·
April 21 – Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician, pacifist,
recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1922) ·
April 27 – Queen Cheorin,
Korean queen (d. 1878) ·
April 29 – Georges Ernest
Boulanger, French general, politician (d. 1891) ·
May 5 ·
Anna Maria Mozzoni, Italian feminist, founder of the
Italian women's movement (d. 1920) ·
Theodor Rosetti, 16th Prime Minister of
Romania (d. 1923) ·
May 7 – Karl Mauch, German
explorer (d. 1875) ·
May 9 – Adam Opel, German engineer, industrialist
(d. 1895) ·
May 27 – Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter
(d. 1876) ·
May 28 ·
George Ashlin,
Irish architect (d. 1921) ·
Tony Pastor, American impresario, theater
owner (d. 1908) ·
June 7 – Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant
(d. 1903) ·
June 20 – David Josiah Brewer, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States (d. 1910) ·
June 22 ·
Paul Bachmann, German mathematician
(d. 1920) ·
Paul Morphy,
American chess player (d. 1884) ·
Touch the Clouds, Native American Miniconjou chief (d. 1905) ·
June 28 or 29 – Petre P. Carp,
2-time Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1919) July–December[edit] ·
July 4 – Carolus-Duran, French painter (d. 1917) ·
July 18 – Vasil Levski,
Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1873) ·
July 18 – Signe Hebbe,
Swedish opera soprano (d. 1925) ·
July 21 – Johanna Hedén,
Swedish midwife, surgeon (d. 1912) ·
August 1 – (bapt.) Mary Harris Jones ("Mother
Jones"), Irish-American labor leader (d. 1930) ·
August 5 – Anna Filosofova,
Russian women's rights activist (d. 1912) ·
August 24 – Théodore Dubois,
French composer (d. 1924) ·
September 2 – James H. Wilson, Union Army major general in the American Civil War (d. 1925) ·
September 14 – Nikolai Bugaev,
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 4 – Auguste-Réal Angers, Canadian judge and politician,
6th Lieutenant
Governor of Quebec (d. 1919) ·
October 5 – José Plácido Caamaño,
12th President of Ecuador (d. 1900) ·
October 10 – Robert Gould Shaw,
Union Army general in the American Civil War, social reformer (k. 1863) ·
October 26 – Carl Koldewey, German explorer famous for
the German
North Polar Expedition (d. 1908) ·
October 28 – Tokugawa Yoshinobu,
Japanese shōgun, 15th and last 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 – Arnold Janssen, German-born Catholic priest,
saint (d. 1909) ·
November 14 – Lucas Barrett, English naturalist (d. 1862) ·
November 20 – Lewis Waterman, American inventor,
businessman (d.1901) ·
November 23 – Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1923) ·
December
(unknown date) – Bella French Swisher,
American writer (d. 1893) ·
December 9 – Kabayama Sukenori, Japanese samurai,
general and statesman (d. 1922) ·
December 11 – Webster Paulson, English civil engineer
(d. 1887) ·
December 15 – George B. Post, American architect (d. 1913) ·
Empress
Elisabeth of Austria, wife of Emperor Franz Joseph I (d. 1898) ·
Cosima Wagner, wife of German composer Richard Wagner (d. 1930) ·
William Boyd Dawkins,
British geologist (d. 1929) ·
George Dewey, American admiral (d. 1917) 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 13 – Mariano José de Larra, Spanish author (b. 1809) ·
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 – Prince
Frederick of Hesse-Kassel (b. 1747) ·
June 14 – Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer (b. 1798) ·
June 20 – King William
IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1765) July–December[edit] ·
July 18 – Vincenzo Borg, Maltese merchant, rebel
leader (b. 1777) ·
September 7 – Fabian
Gottlieb von Osten-Sacken, Russian
military leader (b. 1752) ·
September 21 – Pieter Vreede,
Dutch politician (b. 1750) ·
September 28 – Akbar II, last Mughal emperor of India
(b. 1760) ·
October 1 – Robert
Clark, American politician (b. 1777) ·
October 10 – Charles Fourier, French 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. 1802) ·
December 26 — Mittie
Frances Clarke Point, American novelist (b. 1850) Date Unknown[edit] ·
Mary Dixon Kies,
first American recipient of a U.S. patent (b. 1752) References[edit] 2.
^ "Icons, a portrait of England 1820–1840".
Archived from the original on September 22, 2007.
Retrieved 2007-09-12. 3.
^ Penguin Pocket On
This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0. 4.
^ Morse Timeline on memory.loc.gov
(accessed on 27 May 2014) 5.
^ "Philippeville, Algeria". World Digital
Library. 1899. Retrieved 2013-09-26. Further reading[edit] ·
"Chronicle of Events from August 1836 to September
1837". American Almanac and Repository of Useful
Knowledge. Boston: Charles Bowen. 1838. |
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