1837
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s
Years: 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 - 1837 - 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842
Events:
- January 10 - DePauw University founded in Greencastle, Indiana
- January 26 - Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. State.
- February 8 - Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate
- February 11 - American Physiological Society[?] organizes in Boston
- March 4 - Martin Van Buren succeeds Andrew Jackson as the President of the United States of America.
- March 4 - Chicago, Illinois is granted a city charter by Illinois.
- May 10 - Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
- June 20 - Queen Victoria,monarch of the United Kingdom ascends to the throne .
- August 16 - Dutch sack of the fortress of Bonjol[?], ending the Padri War[?]
- Samuel Morse invents the telegraph
- In the Canadas, William Lyon Mackenzie leads the Upper Canada Rebellion and Louis-Joseph Papineau leads the Patriotes Rebellion.
- Panic of 1837 (Global economic crisis)
Arts, Sciences, Literature and Philosophy
Births:
- February 5 - Dwight L. Moody, evangelist
- March 1 - William Dean Howells, writer, historian, editor, politician.
- March 18 - Grover Cleveland, President of the United States (+ 1908)
- May 9 - Adam Opel[?], German engineer and industrialist
- June 22 - Paul Morphy, American chess player (+ 1884).
- November 14 - Lucas Barrett, English naturalist
Deaths:
- Saint Herman of Alaska
- January 23 - John Field, composer
- February 7 - Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden
- February 10 - Alexander Pushkin, author
- March 31 - John Constable, painter
- June 20 - King William IV of the United Kingdom
- October 5 - Hortense de Beauharnais Queen of Holland and mother of the Emperor Napoleon III of France
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they will not understand how we were overwhelmed by numbers. But
to surrender this army? If it is right, then I will take all the
his staff, Lee quietly gave an order. A few moments later white
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Chapter XXX
While Lee's messenger was making his way toward the Union lines,
the Confederate cavalry. For more than a week he had been constantly
and begrudging even the time for food and sleep in his efforts to
to which he had subjected himself had already begun to tell upon
endeavoring to put himself in fit condition for the final struggle
April 9th, however, found him suffering with a raging headache,
feeling more like going to the hospital than taking active command
two or three miles of Appomattox Court House, when an officer
"Apr. 9, 1865.
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