1837 in History

Begins royal duties immediately after learning of William IVs death.

Calls for intellectual independence from inherited European traditions.

Directs siege operations before being killed during the final assault.

Introduces Oliver and a critique of poverty, workhouses and criminal exploitation.

Creates a major railway connection between Birmingham and the northwest.

1st uses Buckingham Palace as a Royal residence

Buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor

Assumes command and completes the successful assault on Constantine.

Orders Osceola seized while the Seminole leader approaches under a truce flag.

Uses Navy Island as a base for continued rebellion against colonial rule.

Publishes Cesar Birotteau as part of his developing social panorama.

Appointed Chief of the Ministry of Imperial Domains

Delegates at Tacna approve the confederation's Basic Law under Santa Cruz's direction.

Santa Cruz receives constitutional authority as Supreme Protector of the confederation.

Retreats after British troops overwhelm the poorly armed Patriote position.

Dies after helping prevent the Afghan capture of the strategic fort.

DAnthes kills Pushkin in a duel over gossip of an affair with Pushkins wife

Wounded in a duel with a Frenchman who threatened to have an affair with his wife

Passes the Independent Treasury Act to help deal with a financial crisis

Receives United States patent number 132 for an electromagnetic motor.

Opens Euston with the first section of the London and Birmingham Railway.

Introduces a story about sacrifice, transformation and an immortal soul.

Concludes the comic travels and legal troubles of Samuel Pickwick.

Holds her first Privy Council on the day of her accession.

Introduces regular passenger railway service in the Russian Empire.

Secures the first United States patent issued for an electric motor.

Faces criticism for imprisoning negotiators during the Second Seminole War.

Leads French forces into the city after breaching its defenses.

Publicly advances the theory of a widespread prehistoric glacial period.

Opens the Grand Junction Railway for passenger and goods traffic.

Inaugurated President of the USA, 8th

Recognizes the "lone star" Republic of Texas

Recognizes the "lone star" Republic of Texas

Explores artistic ambition, social limitation and disappointed love.

Passes the Independent Treasury Act to help deal with a financial crisis

Marx writes a long letter to his father describing his intellectual development.

Withdraws after the Carlists defeat his army outside the city.

Begins passenger service between London, Harrow, Watford and Boxmoor.

Deepens political conflict between Lower Canadas assembly and imperial authorities.

Loses the steamer Caroline after a British-Canadian raid on the vessel.

Presents evidence that extensive ancient ice once covered large regions.

Begins serial publication of Oliver Twist in Bentleys Miscellany.

Publishes the novel Only a Fiddler in Copenhagen.

Bank suspensions and collapsing credit begin a severe national economic depression.

Proposes separating federal funds from unstable private banks.

Helps intensify political mobilization before armed rebellion begins.

Wins the principal Patriote battlefield victory of the Lower Canada Rebellion.

Ends the personal union between the British and Hanoverian crowns.

The Tacna congress establishes the institutional structure of the Peru-Bolivian Confederation.

Santa Cruz compels the first Chilean expedition to accept the Treaty of Paucarpata.

Completes serial publication of The Pickwick Papers.

Appointed acting President of Venezuela

Gains recognition of his authority across large areas of western Algeria.

Passes the Independent Treasury Act to help deal with a financial crisis

Portrays commerce, bankruptcy, reputation and moral perseverance in Paris.

Satirizes vanity and conformity through a ruler deceived by false weavers.

Under the Salic law of Hanover Victoria cannot succeed to Hanover

Michigan becomes the 26th US State

Santa Cruz gains extensive executive authority over the confederated Peruvian states.

The Government notifies Texas that it will not be admitted to the union

Introduces resolutions authorizing colonial revenues without assembly approval.

Commands the French expedition beginning the second siege of Constantine.

Claims victory despite heavy losses during difficult fighting near Lake Okeechobee.

Addresses a large Patriote gathering opposing the Russell Resolutions.

Convenes a special congressional session to address the financial crisis.

The wooden paddle steamship SS Great Western is launched at Bristol under Brunel's direction.

Succeeds as Emperor of India

With the death of William IV the crown passes to his niece Victoria. Succeeds as Queen of Great Britain

Under the Salic law of Hanover Victoria cannot succeed to Hanover

Succeeds William IV as king under Hanovers male-line succession law.

The Tacna pact grants Santa Cruz a ten-year term as Supreme Protector.

Delivers The American Scholar address to the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

Publishes The Emperors New Clothes alongside The Little Mermaid.

Publishes The Little Mermaid in a new childrens fairy-tale booklet.

Signs the Treaty of Tafna with French General Bugeaud.

Opens the railway linking Saint Petersburg with Tsarskoye Selo.

Michigan becomes the 26th US State

The Government notifies Texas that it will not be admitted to the union

Flees after loyalist militia breaks the rebellion outside Toronto.

Birth of Alois Hitler, son of a 42 year old unmarried peasant woman, Maria Anna Schicklgruber

Birth of Johannes Diderik van der Waals

Death of Alexander Pushkin, killed in a duel

Death of Akbar Shah II, Bahadur Shah IIs father

Is killed by mutinous soldiers while directing government preparations for war.

Death of William IV, of pneumonia & cirrhosis of the liver. Death of William IV, last of the Hanoverian Dynasty

Commands Liberal forces against the Carlist Royal Expedition near Huesca.

Afghan forces challenge Sikh control near the Khyber Pass and kill commander Hari Singh Nalwa.

Leads Sikh forces defending Jamrud against an Afghan attack.

Commands United States troops in a major battle against Seminole resistance.

Leads Upper Canada rebels gathered near Montgomerys Tavern.

Commands Patriote forces facing a stronger British column at Saint-Charles.

Leads Patriote defenders who repel British regular troops at Saint-Denis.

Leads Patriote resistance during the decisive battle at Saint-Eustache.

Dies as British forces defeat the remaining organized Lower Canada rebels.

Crowned Queen of Great Britain