* 1930 – Cosima Wagner, Hungarian daughter of Franz Liszt and widow of Richard Wagner ( b. 1837 )

* 1837 – Mary Harris Jones, American labor organizer ( d. 1930 )

* 1765 – William IV of the United Kingdom ( d. 1837 )

Andrew Jackson ( March 15, 1767 June 8, 1845 ) was the seventh President of the United States ( 1829 – 1837 ).

The dethroning of queen Isabel II meant a vacuum that was profited by the Bank of New York and some Cubans opposed to the projected extension of the 1837 Abolition Act to finance a Texas style " independence " revolution known as the Cuban 10 Years War ( 1868 – 78 ) lost by the Cubans.

* 1837 – J. P. Morgan, American financier ( d. 1913 )

* 1837 – Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman, 4th President of the French Republic ( d. 1894 )

* 1787 – Deaf Smith, American frontiersman and revolutionary ( d. 1837 )

* 1837 – Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician, Nobel laureate ( d. 1922 )

* 1772 – Charles Fourier, French philosopher ( d. 1837 )

* Christian Bunsen ( librarian ) ( 1770 – 1837 ), chief librarian of Göttingen and professor of modern philology, father of Robert Bunsen

* John Cuthbert Hedley ( 1837 – 1915 )

* Chemistry ( 1837 ) – the science concerned with the laws and effects of molecular forces ( Dumas ).

In 1878 the Monets temporarily moved into the home of Ernest Hoschedé, ( 1837 – 1891 ), a wealthy department store owner and patron of the arts.

The winter of 1837 – 38 saw rebellion in both of the Canadas, with the result they were rejoined as the Province of Canada in 1841.

Charles Ammi Cutter ( 1837 – 1903 ), inspired by the decimal classification of his contemporary Melvil Dewey, and with Dewey's initial encouragement, developed his own classification scheme for the Winchester Town Library and then the Boston Athenaeum, at which he served as librarian for twenty-four years.

* 1837 – Elisabeth of Bavaria, also known as Sissi, Empress of Austria ( d. 1898 )

* 1837 – George Dewey, U. S. admiral ( d. 1917 )

* 1837 – Morgan Bulkeley, American politician, 54th Governor of Connecticut ( d. 1922 )

* 1837 – Émile Waldteufel, French composer ( d. 1915 )

* 1837 – Herman of Alaska, Russian Orthodox hermit ( b. 1756 )

In 1877, German physiologist Wilhelm Kühne ( 1837 – 1900 ) first used the term enzyme, which comes from Greek ενζυμον, " in leaven ", to describe this process.

Category: UK MPs 1835 – 1837

Category: UK MPs 1837 – 1841

* 1837 – Georg Büchner, German playwright ( b. 1813 )

* 1837 – Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse ( d. 1892 )

On December 20, 1837, Houston presided over the convention of Freemasons that formed the Grand Lodge of the Republic of Texas, now the Grand Lodge of Texas.

* Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine ( 1837 – 1892 )

The township was organized on December 30, 1837, the second to be organized in Kent County, and initially comprised all of the land in the county north of the Grand River.

Although the King felt obliged by public opinion to grant Codrington the high honour of the Grand Cross of the Bath, the Admiralty's failure to give him another operational command in his remaining decade of service or to promote him to full Admiral until shortly before his retirement from the Navy in 1837, were eloquent testimony to his fall from favour.

This situation lasted until 1837, when Grand Duke Paul Friedrich returned the capital status to Schwerin.

* Three member states were ruled by foreign monarchs: the King of Denmark, the King of the Netherlands, and the King of Great Britain ( until 1837 ) were members of the German Confederation ; the first as Duke of Holstein, the second as Grand Duke of Luxembourg and Duke of Limburg, and the latter as King of Hanover.

After a year of mixed success with his first variety troupe called " Barnum's Grand Scientific and Musical Theater ," followed by the Panic of 1837 and three years of difficult circumstances, he purchased Scudder's American Museum, at Broadway and Ann Street, New York City, in 1841.

Mannerheim's great-grandfather, Count Carl Erik Mannerheim ( 1759 – 1837 ), had held a number of offices in Finland's civil service during the early years of the autonomous Russian Grand Principality of Finland, including membership in the Senate, and served as the first Prime Minister of Finland ( formally the Vice Chairman of the Economic Department of the Senate-the Senate consisted of Economic Department, later the cabinet, and the Justice Dpt, later the Supreme Court, and the formal chairman of both was the Governor General as the acting head of state ).

In 1837 the Grand Junction Railway was built across the land to the west cutting the buildings off from part of the river.

The first stretch of what is now the WCML was the Grand Junction Railway connecting the Liverpool and Manchester to Birmingham, via, and opening in 1837.

Authorised by Parliament in 1833 and designed by George Stephenson and Joseph Locke, the Grand Junction Railway opened for business on 4 July 1837, running for from Birmingham through Wolverhampton ( via Perry Barr and Bescot ), Stafford, Crewe, and Warrington, then via the existing Warrington and Newton Railway to join the Liverpool and Manchester Railway at a triangular junction at Newton Junction.

In 1837 he was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.

The Senussi or Sanussi refers to a Muslim political-religious order in Libya and the Sudan region founded in Mecca in 1837 by the Grand Senussi, Sayyid Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi.

Hemel's position on the shortest route between London and the industrial Midlands put it on the Sparrows Herne turnpike Toll road in 1762, the Grand Junction Canal in 1795 and the London and Birmingham Railway in 1837.

The story begins on 4 July 1837, with the opening of the Grand Junction Railway.

" Regardless, Peat died in April 1837 and Sir Henry Dymoke was appointed Grand Prior and he re-established contact with the knights in France and Germany, where the group had also by that time expanded to.

The earliest British ( and possibly worldwide ) example is the double-tracked triangle within Earlestown railway station on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, which was completed by the Grand Junction Railway in 1837.

At the formation of the Grand Lodge of the Republic of Texas in December 1837, he was elected its first Grand Master.

Railways arrived in Birmingham in 1837 with the opening of the Grand Junction Railway which linked Birmingham with Manchester and Liverpool.

General James St Clair-Erskine, 2nd Earl of Rosslyn GCB, PC ( 6 February 1762 – 18 January 1837 ), known as Sir James Erskine, Bt, between 1765 and 1789 and as Sir James St Clair-Erskine, Bt, between 1789 and 1805, was a Scottish soldier, politician, and Acting Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland, on behalf of King George IV.