1837 Calendar
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1837 Historical Event(s)
February 8, 1837
– Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
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 11, 1837
– The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between Yankees and Irish.
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.
November 8, 1837
– Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College.
December 17, 1837
– Fire in the Winter Palace of Saint Petersburg occurred.
December 25, 1837
– Battle of Lake Okeechobee.
Who Were Born On 1837?
April 5, 1837
– Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (d. 1909)
April 21, 1837
– Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician, Nobel laureate (d. 1922)
May 9, 1837
– Adam Opel, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1895)
May 27, 1837
– Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter (d. 1887)
July 6, 1837
– Ramakrishna Gopal Bhandarkar, Indian scholar (d. 1925)
July 15, 1837
– Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, German-born Queen consort of Portugal, wife of King Peter V of Portugal (d. 1859)
September 14, 1837
– Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (d. 1903)
September 18, 1837
– Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (d. 1880)
October 3, 1837
– Nicolás Avellaneda, Argentine president (d. 1885)