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June 20 :
Queen Victoria accedes to the British throne.
1837 (
MDCCCXXXVII ) was a
common year starting on Sunday of the
Gregorian calendar and a
common year starting on Friday of the
Julian calendar , the 1837th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 837th year of the
2nd millennium , the 37th year of the
19th century , and the 8th year of the
1830s decade. As of the start of 1837, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
January–March
April–June
April 12 – The conglomerate of
Procter & Gamble has its origins, when British-born businessmen William Procter and James Gamble begin selling their first manufactured goods (soap and candles) in
Cincinnati, Ohio .
[1]
April 24 –
26 – The
great fire in Surat city of India caused more than 500 deaths and the destruction of more than 9000 houses.
May –
W. F. Cooke and
Charles Wheatstone patent a system of
electrical telegraph .
May 10 – The
Panic of 1837 begins in
New York City .
June 5 – The settlement of
Houston is incorporated, by the
Republic of Texas .
June 11 – The
Broad Street Riot occurs in
Boston ,
Massachusetts , fueled by ethnic tensions between the Irish and the Yankees.
June 20 –
Queen Victoria , 18, accedes to the throne of the United Kingdom, on the death of her uncle
William IV without legitimate heirs (she will reign for more than 63 years).
[2] Under
Salic law , the
Kingdom of Hanover passes to William's brother,
Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland , ending the
personal union of Britain and Hanover which has persisted since
1714 .
July–September
October–December
October 10 –
13 – The French army under
Sylvain Charles Valée
besieges and captures
Constantine in
French Algeria .
October 30 – The
Tsarskoye Selo Railway , the first in the
Russian Empire , opens between
Saint Petersburg
Tsarskoselsky station and
Zarskoje Selo (modern-day
Pushkin ), engineered by
Franz Anton von Gerstner .
[5]
[6]
October 31 – World's leading
consumer goods brand ,
Procter & Gamble is founded in
Ohio , United States.
[7]
November 7 – American abolitionist and newspaper editor
Elijah Lovejoy is killed by a pro-
slavery mob, at his warehouse in Alton, Illinois.
November 8 – Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, later
Mount Holyoke College , is founded in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
November 17 –
An earthquake in Valdivia , south-central Chile, causes tsunamies that led to significant destruction along Japan's coast.
[8]
November –December – In
the Canadas ,
William Lyon Mackenzie leads the
Upper Canada Rebellion , and
Louis-Joseph Papineau leads the
Lower Canada Rebellion .
December 17 –
Fire breaks out in the Winter Palace , in
Saint Petersburg , Russia killing 30 guards.
December 23 – The
Slave Compensation Act is signed into law by the government of the United Kingdom. This paid a substantial amount of money, constituting 40% of the
Treasury ’s tax receipts at the time, to former enslavers but nothing to those formerly enslaved.
[9]
December 29 – The
Caroline Affair , on the
Niagara River , becomes the basis for the
Caroline test for anticipatory self-defence in international relations.
Date unknown
L’Atelier de l'artiste. An 1837
daguerreotype by
Louis Daguerre .
Births
January–June
J. P. Morgan
January 2 –
Mily Balakirev , Russian composer (d.
1910 )
January 7 –
Thomas Henry Ismay , English shipowner (White Star Line ) (d.
1899 )
February 5
February 13 –
Valentin Zubiaurre , Spanish composer (d.
1914 )
February 20 –
Samuel Swett Green , American librarian, advocate (d.
1918 )
February 24 –
Nakamuta Kuranosuke , Japanese admiral (d.
1916 )
March 1 –
William Dean Howells , American writer, historian, editor, and politician (d.
1920 )
March 3 –
Jacques Duchesne , French general (d.
1918 )
March 7 –
Henry Draper , American physician and astronomer (d.
1882 )
March 18 –
Grover Cleveland , 22nd and 24th
President of the United States (d.
1908 )
March 22 –
Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione (d.
1899 )
March 23 –
Sir Charles Wyndham , English actor, theatrical manager (d.
1919 )
March 27 –
Kate Fox , American medium (d.
1892 )
April 1 –
Luis Francisco Benítez de Lugo y Benítez de Lugo (d.
1876 )
April 5 –
Algernon Charles Swinburne , English poet (d.
1909 )
April 17 –
J. P. Morgan , American financier, banker (d.
1913 )
April 21 –
Fredrik Bajer , Danish politician, pacifist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1922 )
April 27 –
Queen Cheorin , Korean queen (d.
1878 )
April 29 –
Georges Ernest Boulanger , French general, politician (d.
1891 )
May 5
May 7 –
Karl Mauch , German explorer (d.
1875 )
May 9
May 27 –
Wild Bill Hickok , American gunfighter (d.
1876 )
May 28
June 22
June 28 –
Petre P. Carp , 2-time prime minister of Romania (d.
1919 )
July–December
Anna Filosofova
John Leary
Empress Elisabeth of Austria
July 4 –
Carolus-Duran , French painter (d.
1917 )
July 15 –
Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen ,
Queen consort of Portugal (d.
1859 )
July 18 –
Vasil Levski , Bulgarian revolutionary (d.
1873 )
July 21 –
Johanna Hedén , Swedish midwife, surgeon (d. 1912)
August 1 – (bapt.)
Mary Harris Jones ("Mother Jones"), Irish-American labor leader (d.
1930 )
August 5 –
Anna Filosofova , Russian women's rights activist (d.
1912 )
August 24 –
Théodore Dubois , French composer (d.
1924 )
September 2 –
James H. Wilson , Union Army
major general in the
American Civil War (d.
1925 )
September 12 –
Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse (d.
1892 )
September 14 –
Nikolai Bugaev , 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 )
September 24 –
Mark Hanna ,
United States Senator from
Ohio (d.
1904 )
October 3 –
Nicolás Avellaneda , Argentine president (d.
1885 )
October 4 –
Auguste-Réal Angers , Canadian judge and politician, 6th
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d.
1919 )
October 5 –
José Plácido Caamaño , 12th President of Ecuador (d.
1900 )
October 10 –
Robert Gould Shaw , Union Army general in the American Civil War, social reformer (k.
1863 )
October 26 –
Carl Koldewey , German explorer famous for the
German North Polar Expedition (d.
1908 )
October 28 –
Tokugawa Yoshinobu , Japanese
shōgun , 15th and last of the
Tokugawa shogunate (d.
1913 )
[11]
October 29 –
Harriet Powers , African-American folk artist (d.
1910 )
November 2 –
Émile Bayard , French artist, illustrator (d.
1891 )
November 5 –
Arnold Janssen , German-born Catholic priest, saint (d.
1909 )
November 20 –
Lewis Waterman , American inventor, businessman (d.
1901 )
November 23 –
Johannes Diderik van der Waals , Dutch physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1923 )
December (unknown date) –
Bella French Swisher , American writer (d.
1893 )
December 9 –
Kabayama Sukenori , Japanese samurai , general, and statesman (d.
1922 )
December 11 –
Webster Paulson , English civil engineer (d.
1887 )
December 15 –
George B. Post , American architect (d.
1913 )
December 24
December 26
Deaths
January–June
Alexander Pushkin
Osgood Johnson
January 8 –
Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria , Great-grandfather of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (b.
1752 )
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 13 –
Mariano José de Larra , Spanish author (b.
1809 )
February 19 –
Georg Büchner , German playwright (b.
1813 )
March 31 –
John Constable , English painter (b.
1776 )
April 4 –
Louis-Sébastien Lenormand , French chemist, physicist, and inventor (b.
1757 )
April 28 –
Joseph Souham , French general (b.
1760 )
May 5 –
Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli , Italian composer (b.
1752 )
May 9 –
Osgood Johnson , 5th
Principal of
Phillips Academy (b.
1803 )
May 20 –
Prince Frederick of Hesse-Kassel (b.
1747 )
June 14 –
Giacomo Leopardi , Italian writer (b.
1798 )
June 29 –
Nathaniel Macon , American politician (b.
1757 )
June 20 – King
William IV of the United Kingdom and Hannover (b.
1765 )
July–December
July 18 –
Vincenzo Borg , Maltese merchant, rebel leader (b.
1777 )
August 12 –
Pierre Laromiguière , French philosopher (b.
1756 )
September 7 –
Fabian Gottlieb von Osten-Sacken , Russian military leader (b.
1752 )
September 21 –
Pieter Vreede , Dutch politician (b.
1750 )
September 28 –
Akbar II , last Mughal emperor of India (b.
1760 )
October 1 –
Robert Clark , American politician (b.
1777 )
October 10 –
Charles Fourier , French philosopher (b.
1772 )
[12]
October 12 –
Charles-Marie Denys de Damrémont , French governor-general of French Algeria (killed during the siege of Constantine) (b.
1783 )
October 17
November 7 –
Elijah P. Lovejoy , American abolitionist (b.
1802 )
November 28 – Sophie Botta, the
Dark Countess , German woman of mysterious identity
Date unknown
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