1837

Years: 1834 1835 1836 - 1837 - 1838 1839 1840
Decades: 1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1837 in art 1837 in literature 1837 in science 1837 in music 1837 in sports List of state leaders in 1837 List of religious leaders in 1837

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

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 3 - The London Hippodrome opens in Bayswater
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
July 20 - Euston Station, London's first railway stations, is opened
August 16 - Dutch sack of the fortress of Bonjol, ending the Padri War
October 21 - General Thomas Jessup captures Osceola in pretext of negotiations
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)
In the Canadas, William Lyon Mackenzie leads the Upper Canada Rebellion and Louis-Joseph Papineau leads the Patriotes Rebellion.
Samuel Morse patents telegraph
New York Sun Hoax – New York Sun claims that astronomer John Herschel has found life in the Moon
British Piracy Act

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)