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Historical Event(s)
– Canada gives African Canadian men the right to vote.
– The University of Athens is founded in Athens, Greece.
– Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
– The Rebels of Lower Canada (Quebec) rebel against the British for freedom.
– Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
– Grand Junction Railway, the world’s first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
– 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.
– Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College.
– 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.
– Fire in the Winter Palace of Saint Petersburg occurred.
Who Were Born On ?
– Thomas Henry Ismay, founder of the White Star Line shipping company (d. 1899)
– Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (d. 1882)
– Georges Boulanger, French general and politician (d. 1891)
– Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (d. 1876)
– George Ashlin, Irish architect (d. 1921)
– Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, German-born Queen consort of Portugal, wife of King Peter V of Portugal (d. 1859)
– Mary Harris “Mother” Jones, American labor organizer (d. 1930)
– Francis Wayland Parker, American progressive educational theorist (d. 1902)
– Émile Bayard, French artist, illustrator (d. 1891)
– Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)