1837

Events from the year 1837 in the United States.
==Incumbents==
===Federal Government===
* President: Andrew Jackson (D-TN) (until March 4), Martin Van Buren (D-NY) (starting March 4)
* Vice President: Martin Van Buren (D-NY) (until March 4), Richard Mentor Johnson (D-KY) (starting March 4)
* Chief Justice: Roger B. Taney (MD)
* Speaker of the House of Representatives: James K. Polk (D-TN)
* Congress: 24th (until March 4), 25th (starting March 4)
==Events==
* January 6 – DePauw University founded in Greencastle, Indiana.
* January 26 – Michigan admitted becomes the 26th U.S. state.
* February 4 – Seminoles attack Fort Foster.
* February 8 – Richard Mentor Johnson becomes the only Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
* February 15 – Knox College founded in Galesburg, Illinois.
* February 16 - Lake County was organized by the Indiana General Assembly.
* February 25
** In Philadelphia, The Institute for Colored Youth (ICY) is founded as the first institution for the higher education of coloreds.
** Thomas Davenport obtains the first United States patent on an electric motor.
* March 1 – Victor Séjour's short story "Le Mulâtre", the earliest known work of African American fiction, is published in the French abolitionist journal Revue des Colonies.
* March 4
** Martin Van Buren is sworn in as the 8th President of the United States, and Richard Mentor Johnson is sworn in as Vice President of the United States.
** Chicago is granted a city charter by Illinois.
* May 10 – Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
* May 17 – The Little, Brown and Company publishing house opens its doors in Boston.
* June 5 – Houston, Texas, is granted a city charter.
* June 11 – The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, Massachusetts, fueled by ethnic tensions between the Irish and the Yankees.
* July 1 – Charles W. King sets sail on the American merchant ship Morrison. In the Morrison incident, he is turned away from Japanese ports with cannon fire.
* July 31 – Groundbreaking ceremony for St. Charles College, the first Jesuit college established in the South.
* October 1 – First publication of The United States Magazine and Democratic Review.
* October 21 – General Thomas Jesup captures Seminole leader Osceola under pretext of negotiations.
* November 7 – In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot and killed by a pro-slavery mob while he attempts to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a fourth time.
* November 8 – Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which will later become Mount Holyoke College.
* December 1 – John Deere begins his agricultural implement manufacturing business, John Deere, in Grand Detour, Illinois.
==Memoriam==
* June 29 – Nathaniel Macon, politician (aged 79; Warrenton, NC, USA)
* August 17 – John Floyd, 25th Governor of Virginia (aged 54; Sweet Springs, VA (Now WV), USA)
* September 28 – David Barton, U.S. Senator from Missouri from 1821 to 1831 (aged 53; Boonville, MO, USA)
* October 1 – Robert Clark, politician (aged 60; Monroe, MI, USA)
* October 9 – Oliver H. Prince, U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1828 to 1829 (aged 50; Ocracoke Inlet, NC, USA)
* November 7 – Elijah P. Lovejoy, abolitionist (aged 34; Alton, IL, USA)
* November 11 – Thomas Green Fessenden, poet (aged 66; Boston, MA, USA)
==External links==
* 1837 in the United States
Category:United States History: Volume 6