1837

1837 was a Common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).

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.
February 15 - Knox College founded in Galesburg, Illinois
February 25 - First US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport
March 4 - Martin Van Buren succeeds Andrew Jackson as the President of the United States of America.
March 4 - Chicago 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
June 30 - England abolishes the use of Pillory
July 13 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom moves into the first Buckingham Palace in London and is the first British monarch to live there.
July 20 - Euston station, London's first railway stations, is opened
July 29 - Spanish government auctions the church property
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.
December 4 - Date of the Confrontation at Montgomery's Tavern.
November 8 - Formation of Mount Holyoke Seminary, first US college founded for women

In the United States, financial crisis and economic depression begun by the Panic of 1837.
In The Canadas, William Lyon Mackenzie leads the Upper Canada Rebellion and Louis-Joseph Papineau leads the Lower Canada Rebellion.
Samuel Morse patents Telegraph
Great Moon Hoax - New York Sun claims that astronomer John Herschel has found life in the Moon
British Piracy Act

January 2 - Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (d. 1910)
February 5 - Dwight L. Moody, American evangelist (d. 1899)
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)
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)
August 24 - Théodore Dubois, French composer (d. 1924)
November 14 - Lucas Barrett, English naturalist (d. 1862)
November 23 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)
December 26 - George Dewey, U.S. naval officer (d. 1917)
Osman Pasha, Turkish general and statesman (d. 1900)
Sarah Lockwood Pardee, American builder of the Winchester Mystery House (d. 1922)