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List of 1837 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1837

What happened in the year 1837?

Date Event
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 4, 1837 The city of Chicago is incorporated.
April 24, 1837 The great fire in Surat city of India caused more than 500 deaths and destruction of more than 9000 houses.
May 3, 1837 The University of Athens is founded in Athens, Greece.
May 10, 1837 Panic of 1837: New York City banks suspend the payment of specie, triggering a national banking crisis and an economic depression whose severity was not surpassed until the Great Depression.
June 5, 1837 Houston 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 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 electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.
September 18, 1837 Tiffany & 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 17, 1837 An earthquake in Valdivia, south-central Chile, causes a tsunami that leads to significant destruction along Japan's coast.
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 7, 1837 The Battle of Montgomery's Tavern, the only battle of the Upper Canada Rebellion, takes place in Toronto, where the rebels are quickly defeated.
December 17, 1837 A fire in the Winter Palace of Saint Petersburg kills 30 guards.
December 25, 1837 Second Seminole War: American general Zachary Taylor leads 1,100 troops against the Seminoles at the Battle of Lake Okeechobee.