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Year '''1837''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MDCCCXXXVII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Sunday]] (link will display the full calendar) of the [[Gregorian Calendar]] (or a [[common year starting on Friday]] of the 12-day slower [[Julian calendar]]).
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==Events of 1837==
===January - June===
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[[Image:Dronning victoria.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[June 20]]: [[Queen Victoria]], Queen of the United Kingdom (1837-1901).]]
* [[January 26]] - [[Michigan]] is the 26th state admitted to the [[United States of America]].
* February - [[Charles Dickens]]'s ''[[Oliver Twist]]'' begins publication in serial form.
* [[February 4]] - [[Seminoles]] attack [[Fort Foster]].
* [[February 25]] - In [[Philadelphia]], The [[Institute for Colored Youth]] (ICY) was founded as the first institution for higher education of Blacks.
* [[March 4]]
**[[Martin Van Buren]] succeeds [[Andrew Jackson]] as the [[President of the United States]].
**City of [[Chicago]] is incorporated.
*May - * [[Samuel Morse]] patents [[Telegraphy|telegraph]].
* [[May 10]] - [[Panic of 1837]] begins in New York City.
* [[June 5]] - City of [[Houston, Texas]] is incorporated by the [[Republic of Texas]].
* [[June 11]] - The [[Broad Street Riot]] occurred in [[Boston, Massachusetts]], fueled by racial tensions between Irish-Americans and English-Americans.
* [[June 20]] - [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]], monarch of the [[United Kingdom]] accedes to the throne.
===July - December===
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*July - [[Charles W. King]] sets sail on the American merchant ship ''Morrison''. In the [[Morrison Incident]], he is turned away from Japanese ports with cannon fire.
* [[July 29]] - [[Spain|Spanish]] government [[auction]]s the church property.
* [[August 16]] - [[Netherlands|Dutch]] sack of the fortress of Bonjol, ending the [[Padri War]].
* [[November 7]] - American abolitionist and newspaper editor [[Elijah Lovejoy]] is killed by a pro-[[slavery]] mob.
* [[November 8]] - Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, later [[Mount Holyoke College]], was founded in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
* November/December - In [[the Canadas]], [[William Lyon Mackenzie]] leads the [[Upper Canada Rebellion]] and [[Louis-Joseph Papineau]] leads the [[Lower Canada Rebellion]].
===Undated===
* 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]].
==Births==
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===January - June===
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* [[January 2]] - [[Mily Balakirev]], Russian composer (d. [[1910]])
* [[February 5]] - [[Dwight L. Moody]], American evangelist (d. [[1899]])
* [[January 7]] - [[Thomas Henry Ismay]], known for acquiring the WSL flag.
* [[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 (actor)|Charles Wyndham]], English actor and theatrical manager (d. [[1919]])
* [[April 5]] - [[Algernon Charles Swinburne]], English poet (d. [[1909]])
* [[April 17]] - [[J. P. Morgan|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 - December=== <!-- BIRTHS -->
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* [[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 14]] - [[Nikolai Bugaev]], prominent Russian mathematician (d.[[1903]])
* [[September 16]] - King [[Pedro V of Portugal]] (d. [[1861]])
* [[September 18]] - [[Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos]], (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (d. [[1880]])
* [[October 10]] - [[Robert Gould Shaw]], American Civil War General, reformer (d. [[1863]])
* [[October 29]] - African-American folk artist [[Harriet Powers]] (d. [[1910]])
* [[November 2]] - [[Émile Bayard]], French artist, illustrator (d. [[1891]])
* [[November 5]] - [[Saint Arnold Janssen]] (d. [[1909]])
* [[November 14]] - [[Lucas Barrett]], English naturalist (d. [[1862]])
* [[November 20]] - [[Lewis Waterman]], American inventor and businessman (d.[[1901]])
* [[November 23]] - [[Johannes Diderik van der Waals]], Dutch physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. [[1923]])
* [[December 15]] - [[George B. Post]] American architect (d. [[1913]])
* [[December 26]] - [[George Dewey]], U.S. naval officer (d. [[1917]])
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* [[Sarah Lockwood Pardee]], American builder of the Winchester Mystery House (d. [[1922]])
* [[Tadeusz Żychiewicz]], Polish activist, pułkownik (d. after [[1901]])
==Deaths==
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* [[January 20]] - [[John Soane]], British architect (b. [[1753]])
* [[January 23]] - [[John Field (composer)|John Field]], Irish composer (b. [[1782]])
* [[February 7]] - [[Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden|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]])
* [[May 20]] - [[Landgrave Frederick of Hesse-Kassel]] (b. [[1747]])
* [[June 14]] - [[Giacomo Leopardi]], Italian writer (b. [[1798]])
* [[June 20]] - King [[William IV of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1765]])
* [[September 7]] - [[Fabian Gottlieb von Osten-Sacken]], Russian military leader (b. [[1752]])
* [[September 21]] - [[Pieter Vreede]], Dutch politician (b. [[1750]])
* [[September 28]] - [[Akbar Shah II]], last Mughal emperor of India (b. [[1760]])
* [[October 1]] - [[Robert Clark (US politician)|Robert Clark]], American politician (b. [[1777]])
* [[October 10]] - [[Charles Fourier]], philosopher (b. [[1772]])
* [[November 7]] - [[Elijah P. Lovejoy]], American abolitionist (b. [[1809]])
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