1837
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 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.