1837 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1837?
- January 26, 1837 – Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.
- February 8, 1837 – Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
- March 24, 1837 – Canada gives African Canadian men the right to vote.
- May 3, 1837 – The University of Athens is founded in Athens, Greece.
- May 10, 1837 – Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
- May 25, 1837 – The Rebels of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
- June 5, 1837 – Houston, Texas is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
- June 11, 1837 – The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between Yankees and Irish.
- June 20, 1837 – Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
- July 1, 1837 – A system of the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths is established in England and Wales.
- July 4, 1837 – Grand Junction Railway, the world’s first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
- July 25, 1837 – The first commercial use of an electric telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.
- September 18, 1837 – Tiffany and Co. (first named Tiffany & Young) is founded by Charles Lewis Tiffany and Teddy Young in New York City. The store is called a “stationery and fancy goods emporium”.
- November 7, 1837 – In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
- November 8, 1837 – Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College.
- November 22, 1837 – Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay “To the People of Upper Canada”, published in his newspaper The Constitution.
- December 17, 1837 – Fire in the Winter Palace of Saint Petersburg occurred.
- December 25, 1837 – Battle of Lake Okeechobee.
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