Letter from Webster to daughter Eliza, 1837, warning of perils of the abolitionist movement

He officially divorced Eliza Allen in 1837 ; the following year 1838 Tiana died of pneumonia.

Born Pinckney Benton Stewart in May 1837 in Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, his parents were Eliza Stewart, a former slave, and William Pinchback, her former master, who were living together as husband and wife.

Revd Edward Grey ( 1782 – 1837 ) Bishop of Hereford married firstly Charlotte Elizabeth Croft, secondly Elizabeth Adair, and thirdly Eliza Innes

In New York Folsom met his future wife Zervial Eliza Clark whom he married at age 22 on August 12, 1837.

They had a daughter Eliza in 1837 who was to be the only child to survive.

Wells married Eliza Rebecca Robison in 1837 and with her had one son Albert Emory Wells.

Peter Jones and his English wife, Eliza Fields with whom she lived at the Credit Mission from about 1837 until her marriage in 1839.

Aunt Eliza Jones took Catherine to England in 1837 where she furthered her education while Peter, known as Kahkewaquonaby ( Sacred Feathers ), a Chief of the Credit Band, delivered a Petition and Wampum Belt to Queen Victoria.

On March 23, 1837, he married Eliza M. Renshaw ( 1813-1880 ), and they had three children: Carolina Elizabeth Hauser Parker ( 1838-1926 ), William Clarke Hauser ( 1844-1919 ), and Victor McLandhton Hauser ( 1847-1919 ).

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

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

* 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.

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 Iran advanced on Herat with the support and advice of Russian officers.

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.

* Lieutenant William Cox ( 1764 – 1837 ), Australian pioneer born in Wimborne.

On January 23, 1824, Lieutenant General Miguel Luciano De La Torre y Pando ( 1822 – 1837 ), the Spanish appointed governor of Puerto Rico, issued several anti-piracy measures based on the economic losses that the Spanish government was sustaining and the political pressure from the United States.

Grey, in conjunction with Lieutenant Franklin Lushington, offered to explore this country and on 5 July 1837 he sailed from Plymouth in command of a party of five, the others being Lushington ; Mr Walker, a surgeon and naturalist ; and two corporals of the Royal Sappers and Miners.

His struggles against the Clique and the Lieutenant Governor, Lord Gosford, led to the Lower Canada Rebellion in 1837.

* Charles Alphonse Pantaléon Pelletier ( 1837 – 1911 ), a Canadian lawyer, militia officer, politician, publisher, judge and the ninth Lieutenant Governor of Quebec

He rose rapidly through the ranks ( Lieutenant 1835, Captain 1837 ), through successful actions during the Foreign Legion campaign in Algeria and against the Carlists in Spain ( 1835 – 1839 ), where in 1835 he was cited for bravery and gallantry in action on several occasions and rewarded with the cross ( Chevalier ) of the Légion d ' honneur after only four years in the Army.

* April 29 – Charles Alphonse Pantaléon Pelletier, lawyer, militia officer, politician, publisher, judge, and the 9th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec ( b. 1837 )

His eldest son, the third Earl, served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard from 1835 to 1841 in the Whig administration of Lord Melbourne and was also Lord Lieutenant of Somerset from 1837 to 1839.

* 1837: Lieutenant Governor Sir John Franklin founds Tasmanian Society for the Study of Natural Science

Lieutenant-General Sir George Arthur, 1st Baronet KCH PC ( 21 June 1784 – 19 September 1854 ) was Lieutenant Governor of British Honduras ( 1814 – 1822 ), Van Diemen's Land ( now the State of Tasmania, part of Australia ) ( 1823 – 1837 ) and Upper Canada ( 1838 – 1841 ).

The holiday was instated by the Lieutenant Governor of Quebec-in-Council in 2003, according to the then Premier of Quebec Bernard Landry: " to underline the importance of the struggle of the patriots of 1837 – 1838 for the national recognition of our people, for its political liberty and to obtain a democratic system of government.

Apart from his political career Montrose served as Chancellor of the University of Glasgow between 1837 and 1874 ( succeeding his father ) and as Lord Lieutenant of Stirlingshire between 1843 and 1874.

For the rest of the 1830s and the 1840s he had duties ashore and afloat, receiving his commission as Lieutenant in 1837, while serving in the ship of the line North Carolina.

Tucker became a United States Navy Midshipman on June 1, 1826 and had service afloat in the Mediterranean and Brazil Squadrons prior to his promotion to Lieutenant on December 20, 1837.

Arbuthnot was Lord Lieutenant of Kincardineshire from 1805 to 1847, and Lord Rector of King's College, Aberdeen from 1827 to 1837.

Jabez Bunting Snowball ( 24 September 1837 – 24 February 1907 ) was a businessman, the 11th Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, Canada, and politician from the Town of Chatham, New Brunswick.

He fought at the Battle of Waterloo and was Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1828 to 1836, acting Governor General of British North America from 1837 to 1838 and Commander-in-Chief of North America from 1838 to 1839.

He was promoted to Lieutenant in December 1837 and was subsequently assigned to the U. S. Coast Survey, the New York Navy Yard, the steamer Fulton and storeship Erie.

He was Lord Lieutenant of Somerset between 1819 and 1837 and was invested as a Knight of the Garter on 16 July 1823.

Lieutenant Samuel North was granted here on 1837 and named his property Guildford, as he had ties with the Earl of Guildford.

He served in Canada, 1837 – 1838, carried dispatches during Mackenzie's Rebellion and Papineau's Rebellion, and was promoted Lieutenant.