1837 - What happened in 1837 ?

January 1837

Thursday 26:

Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.

February 1837

Wednesday 08:

Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.

Saturday 11:

American Physiological Society organizes in Boston, Massachusetts.

Saturday 25:

First US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport

March 1837

Saturday 04:

Chicago is granted a city charter by Illinois.

Friday 24:

1837 - Canada gives Africans the right to vote.

May 1837

Wednesday 10:

Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.

June 1837

Monday 05:

Houston, Texas, is granted a city charter.

Tuesday 20:

Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.

July 1837

Tuesday 04:

Grand Junction Railway, world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.

Thursday 13:

Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom moves into the first Buckingham Palace in London and is the first British monarch to live there.

November 1837

Tuesday 07:

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.

Wednesday 08:

Formation of Mount Holyoke Seminary, first US college founded for women

December 1837

Monday 25:

United States forces defeat Seminole Indians.