1837

Year 1837 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 12-day slower ).

January - March

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 * - attack.
 * - God speaks to, according to her account.
 * - In, The (ICY) was founded as the first institution for higher education of Blacks.
 * - succeeds  as the.
 * - City of, is incorporated.

April - June

 * - City of is incorporated by the.
 * - The occurred in, fueled by racial tensions between Irish-Americans and English-Americans.


 * -, monarch of the ascends to the throne.

July - September

 * - government s the church property.
 * - sack of the fortress of, ending the.

October - December

 * - American abolitionist and newspaper editor is killed by a pro- mob.
 * - Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, later, was founded in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
 * - William Lyon Mackenzie, a radical reformer in Upper Canada (Ontario), leads a futile and short-lived rebellion against the colonial legislature.

Undated

 * In, leads the  and  leads the.
 * At, France, Father Basil Moreau, CSC founds the by joining the Brothers of St. Joseph and the Auxiliary Priests of Le Mans.
 * develops.
 * patents.
 * In the, the American merchant ship Morrison was turned away from Japanese ports with cannon fire.
 * 's  begins appearing in print in serialized form. It will later be published as a book.

January - June

 * -, Russian composer (d. )
 * -, American evangelist (d. )
 * -, American writer, historian, editor, and politician (d. )
 * -, American physician and astronomer (d. )
 * -, (d. )
 * -, English actor and theatrical manager (d. )
 * -, English poet (d. )
 * -, American financier and banker (d. )
 * -, Danish politician and pacifist, recipient of the (d. )
 * -, German engineer and industrialist (d. )
 * -, American gunfighter (d. )
 * -, Irish Architect (d. )
 * -, American chess player (d. )
 * -, German mathematician (d. )

July - December

 * -, French painter (d. )
 * -, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. )
 * -, French composer (d. )
 * -, prominent Russian mathematician (d.)
 * - King (d. )
 * -, (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (d. )
 * - African-American folk artist, now nationally recognized for her quilts (d. )
 * -, French artist, illustrator (d. )
 * -, English naturalist (d. )
 * -, Dutch physicist, laureate (d. )
 * -, U.S. naval officer (d. )

Unknown dates

 * , American builder of the Winchester Mystery House (d. )
 * , Polish activist, pułkownik (d. after )


 * See also .

January - June

 * -, British architect (b. )
 * -, Irish composer (b. )
 * -, ex-King of Sweden (b. )
 * -, Russian author (b. )
 * ,, German playwright (b. )
 * -, English painter (b. )
 * -, French general (b. )
 * -, Italian writer (b. )
 * - King (b. )

July - December

 * -, American politician (b. )
 * -, Queen of Holland and mother of (b. )
 * -, American abolitionist (b. )

Unknown dates

 * (none)


 * See also .