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Year 1837 (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).

Events of 1837

January - June

June 20: Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1837-1901).

July - December

  • July 29 - Spanish government auctions the church property.
  • August 16 - 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.

Undated

  • 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.
  • In the Morrison Incident, the American merchant ship Morrison was turned away from Japanese ports with cannon fire.
  • Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist begins appearing in print in serialized form. It will later be published as a book.

Births

1837 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1837
MDCCCXXXVII
Ab urbe condita 2590
Armenian calendar 1286
ԹՎ ՌՄՁԶ
Assyrian calendar 6587
Bahá'í calendar -7–-6
Bengali calendar 1244
Berber calendar 2787
British Regnal year Will. 4 – 1 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar 2381
Burmese calendar 1199
Byzantine calendar 7345–7346
Chinese calendar 丙申年十一月廿五日
(4473/4533-11-25)
— to —
丁酉年十二月初五日
(4474/4534-12-5)
Coptic calendar 1553–1554
Ethiopian calendar 1829–1830
Hebrew calendar 5597–5598
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1893–1894
 - Shaka Samvat 1759–1760
 - Kali Yuga 4938–4939
Holocene calendar 11837
Igbo calendar
 - Ǹrí Ìgbò 837–838
Iranian calendar 1215–1216
Islamic calendar 1252–1253
Japanese calendar Tenpō 8
(天保8年)
Juche calendar N/A (before 1912)
Julian calendar Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar 4170
Minguo calendar 75 before ROC
民前75年
Thai solar calendar 2380

January - June

  • 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, 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 - December

  • 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 laureate (d. 1923)
  • December 15 - George B. Post American architect (d. 1913)
  • December 26 - George Dewey, U.S. naval officer (d. 1917)

Unknown dates

  • Sarah Lockwood Pardee, American builder of the Winchester Mystery House (d. 1922)
  • Tadeusz Żychiewicz, Polish activist, pułkownik (d. after 1901)

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 1 - Robert Clark, American politician (b. 1777)
  • November 7 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, American abolitionist (b. 1809)
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