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( 1830s: ) 1837 | |
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Capture of Constantine, Algeria by Horace Vernet | |
Year 1837 |
Contents
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 | Start | End |
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Pax Brittanica | 1815 | 1915 |
New Groups
Group | Image | Type | Description |
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Knox College | Military ranks Liberal arts | Private liberal arts college in Illinois | |
University of Athens | Public | An integral part of the modern Greek academic and intellectual tradition | |
National Technical University of Athens | Public | The oldest higher education institutions of Greece and the most prestigious among engineering schools | |
DePauw University | Military ranks Liberal arts Co-educational | Small Midwestern university | |
Mount Holyoke College | Military ranks | Exclusive Massachusetts women's college | |
Davidson College | Military ranks Liberal arts | North Carolina college with 23 Rhodes Scholars. | |
Marshall University | Public | West Virginia university | |
Madras Christian College | Indian college with many distinguished alumni | ||
Procter & Gamble | Huge multi-billion dollar multinational corporation; specialising in consumer goods. |
==A Quotation==
Births
Title | Born | Place of birth | Died | Summary | Description |
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Charles D. Lanier | 19 January 1837 | US | 6 March 1926 | Banker Deep state operative Businessperson | A Morgan man. |
Grover Cleveland | 18 March 1837 | United States New Jersey Caldwell | 24 June 1908 | Politician Lawyer | |
J. P. Morgan | 17 April 1837 | United States Connecticut Hartford | 31 March 1913 | Banker Deep politician Businessperson | Ultra wealthy US deep politician whose The Money Trust ruthlessly dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation there for decades. |
Mark Hanna | 24 September 1837 | Ohio New Lisbon | 15 February 1904 | Politician Deep politician | American businessman and Republican party kingmaker |
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