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( 1830s: )     1837
Capture of Constantine, Algeria by Horace Vernet
Year 1837

Events

• January 26 – Michigan becomes the 26th state admitted to the United States.
• March 4 - The city of Chicago is incorporated.
• May – W. F. Cooke and Charles Wheatstone patent a system of electrical telegraph.
• May 10 – The Panic of 1837 begins in New York City.
• June 5 – The settlement of Houston is incorporated, by the Republic of Texas.
• June 11 – The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, Massachusetts, fueled by ethnic tensions between the Irish and the Yankees.
• June 20 – Queen Victoria, 18, accedes to the throne of the United Kingdom, on the death of her uncle William IV without legitimate heirs (she will reign for more than 63 years).
• September 19 – First Carlist War: Battle of Aranzueque – The liberal forces loyal to Queen Isabel II of Spain are victorious, ending the Carlist campaign known as the Expedición Real.
• October 10–13 – The French army 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.
• November–December – In the Canadas, William Lyon Mackenzie leads the Upper Canada Rebellion, and Louis-Joseph Papineau leads the Lower Canada Rebellion.

 

Event

Event
Pax Brittanica

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Mount Holyoke College		Military ranks	Exclusive Massachusetts women's college
Davidson College
Marshall University		Public	West Virginia university
Madras Christian College			Indian college with many distinguished alumni
University of Athens		Public	An integral part of the modern Greek academic and intellectual tradition
DePauw University		Military ranks Liberal arts Co-educational	Small Midwestern university
Procter & Gamble			Huge multi-billion dollar multinational corporation; specialising in consumer goods.

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Charles D. Lanier	19 January 1837	US	6 March 1926	Banker Deep state operative Businessperson	A Morgan man.
Grover Cleveland	18 March 1837	New Jersey Caldwell U.S.	24 June 1908	Politician Lawyer
J. P. Morgan	17 April 1837	Connecticut Hartford U.S.	31 March 1913	Banker Deep politician Businessperson
Mark Hanna	24 September 1837	Ohio New Lisbon	15 February 1904	Politician Deep politician	American businessman and Republican party kingmaker