In 1837 he was imprisoned for six months on account of his advanced political opinions.

The first was a Bohemian priest, Adalbert Czech, who persuaded Loschmidt's parents to send young Josef to high school in the Piarist monastery in Schlackenwerth and, in 1837, to advanced high-school classes in Prague.

Le Peletier had a brother, Felix ( 1769 – 1837 ), well known for his advanced ideas, and a brother Amédée Louis Michel Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau ( 1770 – 1845 ), a noted entomologist.

In 1837, 157 Red River people with more than 200 cattle were living on the reservation at Fort Snelling.

He first articulated this in 1837, saying, " Institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy, but the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils.

* Conversations with Children on the Gospels ( Volume II, 1837 )

; Piracy with violence: Section 2 of the Piracy Act 1837 provides that it is an offence, amongst other things, for a person, with intent to commit or at the time of or immediately before or immediately after committing the crime of piracy in respect of any ship or vessel, to assault, with intent to murder, any person being on board of or belonging to such ship or vessel.

When King Amadeus finally had the bill in his desk, which would extend the 1837 Abolition Act to the Antilles, he was put on notice of a coup financed by Cuban plantationers and industrialists if he signed.

Buckingham Palace finally became the official royal palace of the British monarch on the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837.

He purchased the school of at Newport, Isle of Wight, in December 1836, reopened it as a preparatory school on 20 February 1837, and moved it to Montpelier Road in Brighton in December 1837.

The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4, 1837.

Also suggested as a possible influence on Poe is ‘ The Secret Cell ’, a short story published in September 1837 by William Evans Burton, describing how a London policeman solves the mystery of a kidnapped girl.

In 1837 Ferdinand Schichau started the F. Schichau company in Elbing as well as another shipyard in Danzig later on.

Stephen Grover Cleveland was born on March 18, 1837, in Caldwell, New Jersey to Richard Falley Cleveland and Ann Neal Cleveland.

They were married on 4 May 1836 and Margherita gave birth to two children, Virginia Maria Luigia ( 26 March 1837 – 12 August 1838 ) and Icilio Romano ( 11 July 1838 – 22 October 1839 ).

In 1837, the Afghan army descended through the Khyber Pass on Sikh forces at Jamrud.

Saint Herman of Alaska ( born 1756 or 1760 in Serpukhov, Russia – died December 13 or November 15, 1837 on Spruce Island, Alaska ) was one of the first Eastern Orthodox missionaries to the New World, and is considered by Orthodox Christians to be the patron saint of the Americas.

There are many statues of Gutenberg in Germany, including the famous one by Bertel Thorvaldsen ( 1837 ) in Mainz, home to the eponymous Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and the Gutenberg Museum on the history of early printing.

* 1837 – The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on July 25, 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.

In 1785, the Russian Academy of Sciences put a marble bust of Leonhard Euler on a pedestal next to the Director's seat and, in 1837, placed a headstone on Euler's grave.

In 1837 he issued the " Prodrome " of a monograph on the recent and fossil Echinodermata, the first part of which appeared in 1838 ; in 1839 – 40 he published two quarto volumes on the fossil Echinoderms of Switzerland ; and in 1840 – 45 he issued his Etudes critiques sur les mollusques fossiles (" Critical Studies on Fossil Mollusks ").

Its formation reflected recommendations made by John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham in the Report on the Affairs of British North America following the Rebellions of 1837.

British concern over Russian advances in Central Asia and growing influence in Persia culminated in two Anglo-Afghan wars and " The Siege of Herat " 1837 – 1838, in which the Persians, trying to retake Afghanistan and throw out the British and Russians, sent armies into the country and fought the British mostly around and in the city of Herat.

Attempts by Irān to recover Herat in 1834, and again in 1837, raised the spectre of Russian armies on the road to Kandahar, whence direct access to India through the Khojak and Bolan passes.

In 1837 Persian troops, allied to the Russians occupied the Herat region of Afghanistan.

On February 7, 1837, he fought in a duel with Texas Brig.

Sometime before December 1837, Anne became seriously ill with gastritis and underwent a religious crisis.

After producing a Vindication of the English Constitution, and some political pamphlets, Disraeli followed up Vivian Grey with a series of novels, The Young Duke ( 1831 ), Contarini Fleming ( 1832 ), Alroy ( 1833 ), Venetia and Henrietta Temple ( 1837 ).

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

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.

In 1837, Douglass met and fell in love with Anna Murray, a free black woman in Baltimore about five years older than him.

The three years after Albany Academy ( 1837 to 1840 ) were mostly occupied with teaching school, except for the voyage to Liverpool in 1839.

The American tradition of carving pumpkins is recorded in 1837 and was originally associated with harvest time in general, not becoming specifically associated with Halloween until the mid-to-late 19th century.

In 1837 – 38, the Rozwi Empire along with other Shona states were conquered by the Ndebele, who arrived from south of the Limpopo and forced them to pay tribute and concentrate in northern Zimbabwe.

Polk worked for Jackson's policies as speaker, and Van Buren's when he succeeded Jackson in 1837 ; he appointed committees with Democratic chairs and majorities, including the New York radical C. C. Cambreleng as Chair of the Ways and Means Committee, although he maintained the facade of traditional bipartisanship.

A stipend provided by Langlois and others enabled Millet to move to Paris in 1837, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts with Paul Delaroche.

Furthermore the human experience of time itself was altered, with the development of electric telegraph from 1837, and the adoption of standard time by British railway companies from 1845, and in the rest of the world over the next fifty years.

Van Buren had few economic tools to deal with the Panic of 1837.

Niépce died in 1833, but Daguerre continued the work, eventually culminating with the development of the daguerreotype in 1837.

Retrospectively, " networking " of " data " in the Russian language can be traced to the spread of mail and journalism in Russia, and information transfer by technical means came to Russia with the telegraph and radio ( besides, a 1837 sci-fi novel Year 4338, by the 19-century Russian philosopher Vladimir Odoevsky, contains predictions such as " friends ' houses are connected by means of magnetic telegraphs that allow people who live far from each other to talk to each other " and " household journals " " having replaced regular correspondence " with " information about the hosts ’ good or bad health, family news, various thoughts and comments, small inventions, as well as invitations ").

Cooke and Wheatstone formed a partnership and patented the electrical telegraph in May 1837, and within a short time had provided the Great Western Railway with a stretch of telegraph.