1837

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

   * 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)
   * May 9 - Adam Opel, German engineer and industrialist
   * June 22 - Paul Morphy, American chess player (? 1884)
   * August 24 - Thˇodore Dubois, composer and teacher (? 1924)
   * October 11 - Joseph Burton Sumner, later founder and first mayor of
     Sumner, Mississippi, USA. (?1920)
   * November 14 - Lucas Barrett, English naturalist (? 1862)

Deaths:

   * January 23 - John Field, composer
   * February 7 - Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden
   * February 10 - Alexander Pushkin, author
   * March 31 - John Constable, painter
   * June 20 - King William IV of the United Kingdom
   * October 5 - Hortense de Beauharnais Queen of Holland and mother of the
     Emperor Napoleon III of France

   * Saint Herman of Alaska
   * John Soane, British architect

Heads of states

   * Ottoman Empire - Mahmud II Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1808-1839)
   * Prussia - Frederick William III King of Prussia (1797-1840)

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