1837

Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century

Decades: 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s

Years: 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 - 1837 - 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842

Table of contents

Events

January 10 - DePauw University founded in Greencastle, Indiana
January 26 - Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. State.
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 13 - Rowland Hill at a UK government inquiry into postal reform discloses the idea of carrying letters in a separate sheet which folded to become an envelope and the idea of "a bit of paper" which could be affixed to a letter to flag that postage had been paid.
March 4 - Martin Van Buren succeeds Andrew Jackson as the President of the United States of America.
March 4 - Chicago, Illinois is granted a city charter by Illinois.
May 10 - Panic of 1837 (Global economic crisis): New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
June 5 - The city of Houston, Texas is granted a city charter.
June 20 - Queen Victoria, monarch of the United Kingdom ascends to the throne .
August 16 - Dutch sack of the fortress of Bonjol, ending the Padri War
November 7 - In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot to death by a mob (supporters of slavery) while he was attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
Financial and economic panic in US (wildcat banking, paper speculation and inflated land values)
Samuel Morse invents the telegraph
In the Canadas, William Lyon Mackenzie leads the Upper Canada Rebellion and Louis-Joseph Papineau leads the Patriotes Rebellion.

Year in topic

1837 in literature
1837 in music
1837 in science

Births

February 5 - Dwight L. Moody, evangelist (d. 1899)
March 1 - William Dean Howells, writer, historian, editor, politician. (d. 1920)
March 18 - Grover Cleveland, President of the United States (d. 1908)
March 23 - Charles Wyndham - English Actor and Theatrical Manager (d. 1919)
April 17 - John Pierpont Morgan - US financier and banker (d. 1913)
May 9 - Adam Opel, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1895)
June 7 - Aloys Schicklgruber, later changed name to Alois Hitler, Austrian civil servant
June 22 - Paul Morphy, US chess player (d. 1884)
June 22 - Paul Bachmann, mathematician (d. 1920)
August 24 - Théodore Dubois, composer and teacher (d. 1924)
October 11 - Joseph Burton Sumner, later founder and first mayor of Sumner, Mississippi, USA. (d. 1920)
November 14 - Lucas Barrett, English naturalist (d. 1862)
December 26 - George Dewey, naval officer (d. 1917)
Osman Pasha - Turkish General & Statesman (d. 1900)

Deaths

January 20 - John Soane, British architect (b. 1753)
January 23 - John Field, composer (b. 1782)
February 7 - Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778)
February 10 - Alexander Pushkin, author (b. 1799)
March 31 - John Constable, painter (b. 1776)
June 20 - King William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1765)
October 5 - Hortense de Beauharnais Queen of Holland and mother of the Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1783)
December 13 - Saint Herman of Alaska (b. c1756)

Heads of State

China - Daoguang Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (September 2, 1820 to February 25, 1850
Denmark - Frederick VI, King of Denmark (1808-1839)
France - Louis-Phillippe, King of the French (August 1, 1830 to February 24, 1848
Norway - Charles III, King of Norway (1818-1844)
Ottoman Empire - Mahmud II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1808-1839)
Prussia - Frederick William III, King of Prussia (1797-1840)
Russia - Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia (December 26, 1825 to March 2, 1855)
Spain - Isabella II, Queen of Spain (September 29, 1833 to September, 1868)
United States -
1. Andrew Jackson, President of the United States (March 4, 1829 to March 4, 1837)
2. Martin Van Buren, President of the United States (March 4, 1837 to March 4, 1841)