* 1837 – In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.

This same horse won again in 1837, while Sir William was the winner in 1838.

When the electoral vote was counted in Congress on February 8, 1837, it was revealed that while Van Buren received 170 votes for president, Johnson had received only 147 for vice-president.

Inspired by what she took as a call from God in February 1837 while at Embley Park, Florence announced her decision to enter nursing in 1844.

Rufus Goddard, who had moved west from Livingston County, New York, came to the area in 1837 and located land in Sebewa while his family remained in Lenawee County.

On May 29, 1838, 13 raiders, mostly Canadian refugees from the 1837 rebellion, led by " Pirate " Bill Johnston, retaliated by capturing, looting, and burning the British steamer Sir Robert Peel while she was in U. S. waters.

By 1837 Jagodina had 5, 220 inhabitants, while Serbia proper had a population of 41, 374.

The composition was altered slightly in 1837 with the introduction of the Seated Liberty dime ; the silver content was increased to 90 percent, while the copper content was reduced to 10 percent.

Two of these-the " Monograms of Man " and the illustrations to Coleridge's Ancient Mariner were etched by his own hand, and published in 1831 and 1837 respectively, while his subjects from the Pilgrim's Progress and Nichol's Architecture of the Heavens were issued after his death.

University of Pennsylvania linguistics professor Mark Liberman has pointed out that while the OED cites examples dating back to 1837, these examples represent the contributions of a handful of non-New England poets and writers.

The Declaration of Independence of Lower Canada was written in French by the patriot rebel Robert Nelson on February 22, 1838, while in exile in the United States, after the first rebellion of 1837.

In 1837, Abd al-Qādir signed the Treaty of Tafna with Bugeaud, in which he recognized France's sovereignty in Oran and Algiers, while France recognized his control over the remaining two-thirds of the country, mainly the interior.

Müller and Henle placed this species in the genus Stegostoma in 1837, using the specific epithet fasciatus ( or the neuter form fasciatum, as Stegostoma is neuter while Squalus is masculine ) from an 1801 work by Bloch and Schneider.

On his death the earldom and barony of 1837 became extinct, while he was succeeded in the other titles by his kinsman, the seventh Viscount.

One popular Mormon quote which is often coined by the early Mormon leader Lorenzo Snow in 1837, is “ As man now is, God once was: As God now is, man may be .” The teaching was taught first by Joseph Smith, Jr. while pointing to in the New Testament ; he said that " God himself, the Father of us all, dwelt on an earth, the same as Jesus Christ himself did.

The British government ignored the resolutions for over three years until in 1837 it countered the Parti Patriote's requests with ten resolutions of its own, called the Russel Resolutions, while rejecting all proposed ninety-two resolutions made by Papineau and his party.

In 1837 he was appointed to the Legislative Council and while he sometimes supported reform he was generally a critic and opponent of responsible government and the introduction of party government.

* Zuo Baogui ( 左寶貴 ) ( 1837 – 1894 ), Qing Muslim general from Shandong province, was martyred in Pingyang in Korea by Japanese cannonfire in 1894 while defending the city.

In 1837, while out of Congress and in company with a few others, he built the first railroad in the Mississippi Valley, about six miles ( 10 km ) long, leading from his coal mine in the Mississippi bluff to the bank of the river opposite St. Louis.

Since it was once too narrow to be a full-fledged street, the City of New York widened it in 1833 ; as a result Federal houses of 1826-1833 line the west side of the street, while on the east side, following a hiatus caused by the Panic of 1837, the houses are of 1844-1860, with remnants of Greek Revival detailing in doorways and window surrounds.

In October 1837, during the Second Seminole War, Seminole chief Osceola was taken prisoner by the Americans while attending a peace conference under a flag of truce.

The constitution was reinstated during the Trienio Liberal of 1820 – 1823, and again briefly in 1836 and 1837 while the Progressives prepared the Constitution of 1837.

After Ferdinand's death in 1833, the Constitution was in force again briefly in 1836 and 1837, while the Constitution of 1837 was being drafted.

In 1837 the Kiowa ( and other tribes ) signed a treaty of friendship with the US that established a framework for legal system administered by the US.

Between 1817 and 1837 the stud added Arabian, Thoroughbred, and Turkish or Turkoman horse blood to their horses.

Originally a wooden railed horse drawn wagonway, conversion to a conventional steel railed railway began in 1837, and by 1840 was complete as far as Tanfield Moor Colliery.

Coke also bred cattle and used oxen for ploughing rather than horse, being the first to use them harnessed rather than yoked and winning a prize for his oxen in 1837.

* James T. Woodward ( 1837 – 1910 ), American banker and owner of a major thoroughbred horse dynasty

John Gully ( 21 August 1783 – 9 March 1863 ) was an English prize-fighter, horse racer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1832 to 1837.

On 22 May 1858 he married an heiress, Eleanor Blanche Mary Corbett, of Elsham Hall, who died on 7 June 1897, daughter of Thomas George Corbett, of Elsham Hall (– 5 July 1868 ) and wife ( m. 15 December 1837 ) Lady Mary Noel Beauclerk ( 28 December 1810 – 29 November 1850 ), daughter of the 8th Duke of St Albans, and thereafter devoted himself to sports including horse racing and boxing.

Due to ill health, Kent attended only four sessions of the Senate, and died in 1837 as a result of a fall from his horse.

In 1837, it purchased Fort Hall, also along the route of the Oregon Trail, where the outpost director displayed the abandoned wagons of discouraged settlers to those seeking to move west along the trail.

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.

The city of Richmond was incorporated under the Republic of Texas along with nineteen other towns in 1837.

Between 1834 and 1837, early white man began to settle in DeKalb County along the streams and wooded areas because of the fertile soil, wild game, and food and water opportunities.

In 1837, the two brothers, en route to the Rock River, made camp along the east bank of the Fox River to wait out the spring floods that made continuing their oxcart journey impossible.

Originally platted along the right-of-way for the Hennepin Canal, in 1837, the village site was called in land speculation papers " Hampton " ( not the town in Illinois, approximately 13 miles north-northeast, on the Mississippi River — see Hampton, Illinois for more ).

After the war, Joshua F. Cockey III ( 1837 – 1920 ) founded the National Bank of Cockeysville ( 1891 ) and other commercial ventures in the community, as well as developing dwellings along the York Turnpike ( now York Road ) that made up the village of Cockeysville.

There are four beaches and two parks along the waterfront, as well as Ned Point Light, which was built in 1837 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

In 1837 the Cumberland Valley Railroad came through the area and in 1874 the borough was extended to include the homes and businesses that had grown up along the railroad.

William Card ( 1710 – 1784 ), born in Rhode Island, settled in Pownal perhaps as late as 1773 ( though his sons settled there between 1762 – 1766 ) fought for the British at the Battle of Bennington on 16 August 1777, along with four of his sons: Jonathan ( 1734 – 1818 ), Elisha ( 1738 – 1805 ), Philo ( 1754 – 1837 ) --- NOTE: This is an error ... No Philo Card has been found to exist.

Popular legend has it that William Mahone ( 1826 – 1895 ), builder of the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad ( now Norfolk Southern ), and his cultured wife, Otelia Butler Mahone ( 1837 – 1911 ), traveled along the newly completed Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad naming stations.

In June 1837, Andrew Bird, Zenas Bird and Aaron Petrie began a settlement along the banks of the Maunesha River.

The celestial line of position concept was discovered in 1837 by Thomas Hubbard Sumner when, after one observation he computed and plotted his longitude at more than one trial latitude in his vicinity – and noticed that the positions lay along a line.

On 1 September 1837 work started on building a 920 foot long coffer-dam to enclose the building site along the river.

In 1837, on 18 November, along with six of his colleagues he signed a formal protest against the action of King Ernst August in abolishing the liberal constitution of 1833, which had been granted to the House of Hanover by his predecessor William IV.

On 15 January 1837 the Spanish Cortes, then in midst of the First Carlist War ( 1833 – 39 ), excluded Miguel from the Spanish succession, on the grounds that he was in rebellion along with his maternal uncle Carlos, the first Carlist pretender of Spain.

After mill closings due to the Panic of 1837, he moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to work as a mechanic with carding machinery, apprenticing along with his cousin Nathaniel P. Banks.

On May 30, 1837, a month after his marriage to Phoebe, Woodruff left Kirtland along with Jonathan Hale and Milton Holmes to serve a mission in New England.

A mill was operating on the future town site of Boorowa by 1837, along with an inn and several houses.

Sunderland Albion were now backed by some wealthy individuals, most noticeably James Hartley, who along with his brother John owned the Wear Glass Works at Monkwearmouth, founded in 1837.

Between 1837 and 1839, the Republic of New Grenada introduced silver ¼, ½, 1, 2 & 8 real coins along with gold 1, 2 & 16 pesos.

In early 1837 Lee participated in the Willamette Cattle Company along with Ewing Young in order to procure cattle for the mission.

The first packet boat, The Dove of Solsville, arrived in Binghamton from Utica May 6, 1837, officially opening the canal, and was quickly followed by new development along the canal's route.