1837

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Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1837 - 1901)

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

Events

• January 26 - Michigan is the 26th state admitted to the United States of America
• February 7 God spoke to Florence Nightingale
• March 4 - Martin Van Buren succeeds Andrew Jackson as the President of the United States of America
• March 4 - City Of Chicago, Illinois Incorporated
• June 11 - The Broad Street Riot occurred in Boston, Massachusetts, fueled by racial tensions between Irish-Americans and English-Americans.
• June 20 - Queen Victoria, monarch of the United Kingdom ascends to the throne
• July 29 - Spanish government auctions the church property
• August 16 - Dutch sack of the fortress of Bonjol, ending the Padri War
• October 29 - African-American folk artist Harriet Powers, now nationally recognized for her quilts, was born in rural Georgia on October 29, 1837.
• November 7 - American abolitionist and newspaper editor Elijah Lovejoy is killed by a proslavery mob
• In the Canadas, William Lyon Mackenzie leads the Upper Canada Rebellion and Louis-Joseph Papineau leads the Lower Canada Rebellion
• 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 Daguerreotype
• Samuel Morse patents telegraph

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 - 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)
• May 28 - George Ashlin, Irish Architect (d. 1921)
• 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)
• July 18 - Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1873)
• August 24 - Théodore Dubois, French composer (d. 1924)
• September 16 - King Pedro V of Portugal (d. 1861)
• October 29 - African-American folk artist Harriet Powers (d. 1910)
• 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)
• Sarah Lockwood Pardee, American builder of the Winchester Mystery House (d. 1922)

Deaths

• 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 19, Georg Büchner, German playwright (b. 1813)
• March 31 - John Constable, English painter (b. 1776)
• April 28 - Joseph Souham, French general (b. 1760)
• 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 - Saint Herman of Alaska