1837

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Year in topic
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Heads of states

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.
Samuel Morse invents the telegraph
In the Canadas, William Lyon Mackenzie leads the Upper Canada Rebellion and Louis-Joseph Papineau leads the Patriotes Rebellion.