1837

1837 (MDCCCXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1837th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 837th year of the 2nd millennium, the 37th year of the 19th century, and the 8th year of the 1830s decade. As of the start of 1837, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1837 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1837
MDCCCXXXVII
Ab urbe condita2590
Armenian calendar1286
ԹՎ ՌՄՁԶ
Assyrian calendar6587
Balinese saka calendar1758–1759
Bengali calendar1244
Berber calendar2787
British Regnal year7 Will. 4  1 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar2381
Burmese calendar1199
Byzantine calendar7345–7346
Chinese calendar丙申年 (Fire Monkey)
4533 or 4473
     to 
丁酉年 (Fire Rooster)
4534 or 4474
Coptic calendar1553–1554
Discordian calendar3003
Ethiopian calendar1829–1830
Hebrew calendar5597–5598
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1893–1894
 - Shaka Samvat1758–1759
 - Kali Yuga4937–4938
Holocene calendar11837
Igbo calendar837–838
Iranian calendar1215–1216
Islamic calendar1252–1253
Japanese calendarTenpō 8
(天保8年)
Javanese calendar1764–1765
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4170
Minguo calendar75 before ROC
民前75年
Nanakshahi calendar369
Thai solar calendar2379–2380
Tibetan calendar阳火猴年
(male Fire-Monkey)
1963 or 1582 or 810
     to 
阴火鸡年
(female Fire-Rooster)
1964 or 1583 or 811
June 20: Queen Victoria accedes to the throne.

Events

January–March

  • January 1 – The destructive Galilee earthquake causes 6,000–7,000 casualties in Ottoman Syria.
  • January 26Michigan becomes the 26th state admitted to the United States.
  • FebruaryCharles Dickens's Oliver Twist begins publication in serial form in London.
  • February 4Seminoles attack Fort Foster in Florida.
  • February 25 – In Philadelphia, the Institute for Colored Youth (ICY) is founded, as the first institution for the higher education of black people in the United States.
  • March 1 – The Congregation of Holy Cross is formed in Le Mans, France, by the signing of the Fundamental Act of Union, which legally joins the Auxiliary Priests of Blessed Basil Moreau, CSC, and the Brothers of St. Joseph (founded by Jacques-François Dujarié) into one religious association.
  • March 4

April–June

July–September

October–December

  • October 1013 – The French army under Sylvain Charles Valée besieges and captures Constantine in French Algeria.
  • October 30 – The Tsarskoye Selo Railway, the first in the Russian Empire, opens between Saint Petersburg Tsarskoselsky station and Zarskoje Selo (modern-day Pushkin), engineered by Franz Anton von Gerstner.[5][6]
  • October 31 – World's leading consumer goods brand, Procter & Gamble is founded in Ohio, United States.[7]
  • November 7 – American abolitionist and newspaper editor Elijah Lovejoy is killed by a pro-slavery mob, at his warehouse in Alton, Illinois.
  • November 8 – Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, later Mount Holyoke College, is founded in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
  • November 17 – An earthquake in Valdivia, south-central Chile, causes tsunamies that led to significant destruction along Japan's coast.[8]
  • November–December – In the Canadas, William Lyon Mackenzie leads the Upper Canada Rebellion, and Louis-Joseph Papineau leads the Lower Canada Rebellion.
  • December 17 – Fire breaks out in the Winter Palace, in Saint Petersburg, Russia killing 30 guards
  • December 29 – The Caroline Affair, on the Niagara River, becomes the basis for the Caroline test for anticipatory self-defence in international relations.

Date unknown

L’Atelier de l'artiste. An 1837 daguerreotype by Louis Daguerre.

Births

January–June

July–December

Anna Filosofova
John Leary

Deaths

January–June

Osgood Johnson

July–December

Date unknown

  • Mary Dixon Kies, first American recipient of a U.S. patent (b. 1752)
  • Anne Pépin, Senegalese Signara (b. 1747)

References

  1. "Procter & Gamble history" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on January 17, 2016. Retrieved September 22, 2015.
  2. "Icons, a portrait of England 1820–1840". Archived from the original on September 22, 2007. Retrieved September 12, 2007.
  3. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
  4. Morse Timeline on memory.loc.gov (accessed on May 27, 2014)
  5. Haywood, Richard Mowbray (1969). The beginnings of railway development in Russia in the reign of Nicholas I, 1835–1842. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.
  6. Gamst, Frederick (1990). "Franz Anton Ritter von Gerstner, Student of America's Pioneering Railroads". Railroad History (163): 13–27. JSTOR 43521426. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
  7. "A Company History1837 - Today" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 24, 2020. Retrieved July 21, 2020.
  8. Cisternas, M.; Carvajal, M.; Wesson, R.; Ely, L. L.; Gorigoitia, N. (2018). "Exploring the Historical Earthquakes Preceding the Giant 1960 Chile Earthquake in a Time-Dependent Seismogenic Zone". Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 107 (6): 2664–2675. doi:10.1785/0120170103.
  9. "History | City of Atlanta, GA". Retrieved September 11, 2021.
  10. "Charles Fourier | French philosopher". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved February 13, 2021.

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