Events

• January 10 - DePauw University founded in Greencastle, Indiana
• January 26 - Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state
• February 8 - Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate
• February 11 - American Physiological Society organizes in Boston
• February 15 - Knox College founded in Galesburg, Illinois
• February 25 - First US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport
• March 4 - Chicago is granted a city charter by Illinois.
• May 10 - Panic of 1837: New York City banks fail, and unemployment reaches record levels.
• June 5 - The city of Houston, Texas is granted a city charter.
• October 21 - General Thomas Jessup captures Osceola in pretext of negotiations
• November 7 - In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot to death by a mob (supporters of slavery) while he was attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
• November 8 - Formation of Mount Holyoke Seminary, first US college founded for women

• Great_Moon_Hoax – New York Sun claims that astronomer John Herschel has found life in the Moon

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See also

• 1836 in the United States
• 1837
• 1837 in Canada
• 1837 in Mexico
• 1838 in the United States