See:
Wikipedia.
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.
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.
Births:
February 5 -
Dwight L. Moody, evangelist († 1899).
March 1 -
William Dean Howells, writer, historian, editor, politician. († 1920).
March 18 -
Grover Cleveland, President of the United States († 1908).
March 23 -
Charles Wyndham - English Actor and Theatrical Manager († 1919).
March 26 -
Huigje Spits.
May 9 -
Adam Opel, German engineer and industrialist († 1895).
June 13 -
Pieternella van den Houten.
June 22 -
Paul Morphy, US chess player († 1884).
July 23 -
Cornelia van den Houten.
August 24 -
Théodore Dubois, composer and teacher († 1924).
September 8 -
Maria Louissa Somers.
October 11 -
Joseph Burton Sumner, later founder and first mayor of Sumner,
Mississippi, USA. (†1920).
October 31 -
Cornelis Berman.
November 14 -
Lucas Barrett, English naturalist († 1862).
December 26 -
George Dewey, naval officer († 1917).
Osman Pasha - Turkish General & Statesman († 1900).
Deaths:
January 20 -
John Soane, British architect (* 1753).
January 23 -
John Field, composer (* 1782).
February 7 -
Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (* 1778).
February 10 -
Alexander Pushkin, author (* 1799).
March 22 -
Cornelia van den Houten.
March 31 -
John Constable, painter (* 1776).
June 20 - King
William IV of the United Kingdom (* 1765).
August 3 -
Maarten van den Houten.
August 30 -
Pieternella van den Houten.
October 5 -
Hortense de Beauharnais Queen of Holland and mother of the Emperor
Napoleon III of France (* 1783).
November 20 -
Cornelia van den Houten.
December 13 -
Saint Herman of Alaska (*1756).
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