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Queen Victoria at age 18[/caption]
In the year 1837, Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist begins publication in serial form in London (Feb), Seminoles attack Fort Foster in Florida (Feb 4), the city of Chicago is incorporated (Mar 4), British businessmen Proctor and Gample begin selling their first manufactured goods such as soap and candles in Cincinnati, Ohio (Apr 12), the financial crisis named Panic of 1837 begins in New York City (May 10), Queen Victoria accedes the throne of United Kingdom at age 18 after her uncle dies (Jun 20), in the Canadas, there is organized rebellion against the British colonial rule - and all these fine people were born:
1837-0101 1837-0102 Mily Balakirev* pianist/ composer/conductor - Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire (1910/73) 1837-0107 Thomas Henry Ismay* founder of the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, more commonly known as the White Star Line - Maryport, Cumbria, England (1899/62) 1837-0119 William Williams Keen* brain surgeon - Philadelphia, PA USA (1932/95) 1837-0205 Dwight L. Moody* evangelist/publisher - Northfield, MA USA (1899/62) 1837-0209 August Eklöf* merchant/industrialist - Tammisaari, GD of Finland (1912/75) 1837-0301 William Dean Howells* novelist/literary critic/ playwright - Martinsville, OH USA (1920/83) 1837-0311 William Tonks* son of the Wellington estate owner William Tonks - Warwickshire, England - Find A Grave 1837-0316 Betty Elfving* writer - Turku, GD of Finland (1923/85) 1837-0318 Grover Cleveland* politician/22&24usp - Caldwell, NJ USA (1908/71) 1837-0327 Kate Fox* medium/together with her two sisters popularized Spiritualism - USA (1892/55) 1837-0403 John Burroughs* naturalist/nature essayist - Catskill Mountains, NY USA (1921/83) 1837-0405 Algernon Swinburne* poet/playwright/critic - London, England (1909/72) 1837-0406 August Weizenberg* sculptor - Ritsik, Erastvere, Estonia (1921/84) 1837-0411 Elmer E. Ellsworth* United States Army officer/the first Union officer to die in the American Civil War - Malta, NY USA 1837-0417 J. Pierpoint Morgan* financier/banker - Hartord, CT USA (1913/75) 1837-0421 Fredrik Bajer* writer/pacifist politician/N - Næstved, Denmark (1922/84) 1837-0509 Adam Opel* industrialist/founder of the automobile company Adam Opel AG - Rüsselsheim, Hesse, Prussia (1895/58) 1837-0526 Washington Roebling* engineer/ supervised the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge - Saxonburg, PA USA (1925/88) 1837-0527 Wild Bill Hickok* scout/ gun fighter/showman etc - Homer, IL USA (1876/39) 1837-0607 Alois Hitler* civil servant/father of Adolf Hitler - Strones, Austrian Empire (1903/65) 1837-0622 Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann* mathematician - Berlin, Germany (1920/82) 1837-0622 Paul Morphy* chess player/chess master - New Orleans, LA USA (1884/47) 1837-0701 Henry Rathbone* military officer/ diplomat/present at the assassination of Abraham Lincoln - Albany, NY USA (1911/74) 1837-0704 Carolus-Duran* painter/ art instructor - Lille, France (1917/79) 1837-0721 Johanna Hedén* midwife/the first known female surgeon in Sweden - Närke, Sweden (1912/75) 1837-0805 Anna Filosofova* feminist/philanthropist - Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (1912/74) 1837-0810 1837-0824 Théodore Dubois* organist/music teacher/composer - Rosnay, France (1924/86) 1837-0914 Nikolai Bugaev* mathematician/chess player - Georgia, Russian Empire (1903/65) 1837-0922 Anne Blunt* (b King-Noel) Arabian horse breeder/artist/ granddaughter of Lord Byron - England (1917/80) 1837-1001 1837-1007 Newton Earp* American pioneer/carpenter/half-brother of the lawmen Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan Earp - Ohio County, KY USA (1928/91) Oh Brother 1837-1010 Robert Gould Shaw* officer (Union Army during the American Civil War) - Dartmouth, MA USA (1863/25) 1837-1020 1837-1023 Moritz Kaposi* (b Kohn) physician/dermatologist/discoverer of the skin tumor that bears his name (Kaposi’s sarcoma) - Kaposvár, Hungary (1902/64) 1837-1028 Tokugawa Yoshinobu* 徳川 慶喜 the 15th and last shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate - Edo, Japan (1913/76) 1837-1031 1837-1115 Jacob Frolich* printer/ politician/to America as a child - Oberndorf am Lech, Bavaria (1890/52) 1837-1123 Johannes van der Waals* physicist - Leiden, Netherlands (1923/85) 1837-1128 John Wesley Hyatt* inventor/simplified the production of celluloid, the first industrial plastic - Starkey, NY USA (1920/82) 1837-1224 Cosima Wagner* (b Liszt) daughter of Franz Liszt/promoter of Richard Wagner’s music - Como, Italy (1930/92) 1837-0 1837-0 1837-0 Updated 2025-0102 Helsinki Search for another year here