
{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1834 1835 1836 - 1837 - 1838 1839 1840 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century
|} 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 Mentor 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 * July 20 - Euston Station, London's first railway stations, is opened * August 16 - Netherlands 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 College, first US college founded for women ==Unknown date== * Financial and economic panic in United States (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 * Great_Moon_Hoax – New York Sun claims that astronomer John Herschel has found life in the Moon * British Piracy Act ==Births== * 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 - J. P. Morgan, American financier and banker (d. 1913) * 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) * December 26 - George Dewey, U.S. naval officer (d. 1917) * Osman Pasha, Turkish general and statesman (d. 1900) * Sarah Lockwood Pardee (Sarah Winchester), American eccentric and builder of the Winchester Mystery House (d. 1922) ==Deaths== * January 20 - John Soane, British architect (b. 1753) * January 23 - John Field (composer), Irish composer (b. 1782) * February 7 - Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778) * February 10 - Alexander Pushkin, Russian author (b. 1799) * February 19, Georg Büchner, German playwright (b. 1813) * March 31 - John Constable, English painter (b. 1776) * June 14 - Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer (b. 1798) * June 20 - King William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1765) * October 5 - Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland and mother of Napoleon III of France (b. 1783) * November 7 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (b. 1809) * December 13 - Herman of Alaska 1837 la:1837 os:1837 simple:1837
I have made some year layout proposals which would affect a significant proportion of the year pages: an example of proposed style is 1850. It is detailed on my talk page. If no-one flags where I have put the discussion on my talk page that they object in a month I will start making everything consistent. It may take some time... --User:BozMo 10:00, 7 May 2004 (UTC)user talk:BozMo
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{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1834 1835 1836 - 1837 - 1838 1839 1840 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
18th century - 19th century - 20th century
|} 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 Mentor 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 * July 20 - Euston Station, London's first railway stations, is opened * August 16 - Netherlands 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 College, first US college founded for women ==Unknown date== * Financial and economic panic in United States (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 * Great_Moon_Hoax – New York Sun claims that astronomer John Herschel has found life in the Moon * British Piracy Act ==Births== * 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 - J. P. Morgan, American financier and banker (d. 1913) * 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) * December 26 - George Dewey, U.S. naval officer (d. 1917) * Osman Pasha, Turkish general and statesman (d. 1900) * Sarah Lockwood Pardee (Sarah Winchester), American eccentric and builder of the Winchester Mystery House (d. 1922) ==Deaths== * January 20 - John Soane, British architect (b. 1753) * January 23 - John Field (composer), Irish composer (b. 1782) * February 7 - Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778) * February 10 - Alexander Pushkin, Russian author (b. 1799) * February 19, Georg Büchner, German playwright (b. 1813) * March 31 - John Constable, English painter (b. 1776) * June 14 - Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer (b. 1798) * June 20 - King William IV of the United Kingdom (b. 1765) * October 5 - Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland and mother of Napoleon III of France (b. 1783) * November 7 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (b. 1809) * December 13 - Herman of Alaska 1837 la:1837 os:1837 simple:1837
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I have made some year layout proposals which would affect a significant proportion of the year pages: an example of proposed style is 1850. It is detailed on my talk page. If no-one flags where I have put the discussion on my talk page that they object in a month I will start making everything consistent. It may take some time... --User:BozMo 10:00, 7 May 2004 (UTC)user talk:BozMo
1837
1830s
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