1837

This page relates to the year 1837 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

Americas

Latin America

Canada

The United States

  • October 21st: The chief Séminole Osceola is captured whereas floated the white flag. He dies in prison.

  • Eight hundred Creek agree to support the United States in their war against Séminoles in exchange of the promise which them family would remain in Alabama until their return under the protection of the federal government. The creek families, attacked by white petty thieves, are expelled of their grounds by the army towards the concentration camp of Mobile Bay under pretext of ensure their safety. When the warriors creek return from the war against Séminoles, they will be expelled with their family towards the west. 311 of them will die at the time of the shipwreck of the steamer Monmouth on the the Mississippi.
  • Typhoid Epidemic of with New York.

Africa

  • January 17th: Victoire of the Boers on the Ndébélé and their chief Mzilikazi, which migrate towards north where they beat and assimilate the local people (Shona, Tswana, etc). They found the kingdom of Matabélé in 1838 (Zimbabwe).
    • Boers, after having passed the river Orange and having pushed back Matabélé, oblique in the east, cross the solid mass of the Drakensberg in October and found with the Natal the town of Pietermaritzburg. They make agreement with the chief of the Sotho of the south, Moschech.
  • June 24th: The Busaidi of Oman eliminate the Mazrui, governors of Mombasa. They are Masters of all the coast Swahili.

  • Died of Mohammed Bello. His/her young brother Ousmane (Atikou) succeeds to him the head of the empire Peul de Sokoto (fine in 1843).
  • the black governor of the Portuguese Guinea, Honorio Pereira Barreto, increases the possessions of the Portugal by buying grounds with the local leaders with his personal fortune (end in 1859).
  • the explorer and missionary German Johann Ludwig Krapf, started from Zanzibar, reached the Kenya and establishes the first chart of it, comprising the Lac Kyoga. Ten years later, he will discover the Mont Kenya.
  • the trade of the coast mrima (ivory and gum copale), vis-a-vis Zanzibar, is given by the sultan omani in monopoly to the Arab merchants and swahili.
  • Demolished Egyptians with Bog manganese Kaltabu in Ethiopia.

The Maghreb

  • February 12th: The general Damrémont is named General governor in Algérie. He has as instructions (Molé) to limit himself to the restricted occupation.
  • May 30th: Convention of Tafna signed between the general Bugeaud and the emir Abd el-Kader. The emir obtains two thirds of the territory of ex-regency (province of Titteri and province of Oran, except for the towns of Oran, Arzew and Mostaganem). He establishes his capital with Mascara. The French undertake to exile its own opponents.
  • Damrémont comes into contact with the bey of Constantine to obtain a Convention of the same type, but Ahmed rejects her ultimatum the August 19th.
  • October 13rd: Forwarding of Constantine of 1837 : The General governor receives the order to walk on Constantine with 10  000 men. The city is taken the October 13rd after seven days of seat. Damrémont at summer killed the day before a blow of gun. Its successor the general general Valée endeavors to organize the province of Constantine, then must face Abd el-Kader (fine in 1840).

  • October 10th: Ahmad Pasha, wire of Mustapha, becomes Bey de Tunis (fine in 1855). The Regency of Tunis undertakes its modernization under its government.

    • the bey of Tunis Ahmad, by his extravagant expenditure, ruins Treasury. This expenditure is largely financed by loans contracted near France. The refunding of the foreign debt exceeds the incomes, which makes the bey principal debtor of France.

Oceania

  • May 22nd: First meeting of the Association of the New Zealand, founded by Wakefield and intended to facilitate the colonization of the country. Wakefield manages the island of the South until its annexation by the Great Britain.

Asia

  • February 19th, Japan: Ôshio Heihachirô, urban civil servant revolted by misery, organizes a plot with Osaka against the corrupted civils servant. It is the first frontal calling into question of the mode. The city is set fire to and the rebels launch out to the attack of the castle of Osaka. After furious combat, Ôshio is constrained to leave the city and commits suicide with its partisans.

  • September 28th, India: Bahadur Shah II succeeds his father Akbar Shah II. He is the last emperor moghol (death in 1862).

  • Mongolia: Anti-feudal and anti-Manchu rebellion in the aïmak khanal tsetsene (fine in 1840). The arates state more not to recognize nor the capacity of the djasaks hochúns, that of the emperor. These movements are repressed.

  • the Dynasty of Barakzaï reign in Afghanistan (fine in 1873). The khan Dost Mohammad request with the British colonial authorities of India (Alexander Balls) which they support the territorial claims of Afghanistan on the Penjab. After the refusal of the British, it turns to the Russia.
  • Beginning of a great famine in India of North (fine in 1838).

The Middle East

  • the Egyptians arm the Kurdish with Anatolia against the Othoman and prohibit with the boats Turkish to accost in the ports of the Raising.
  • the Porte tries to renew contact with the Lebanon with Chihab Bachir II, which hesitates to change guard, then with the Druzes and the Métoualis, but is preceded by the British who take the party of the Druzes.

Europe

  • February 28th, the United Kingdom: The members of the London Working Men' S Association (chartists) obtain a program of electoral reform (People' S Charter), which envisages the male vote for all, the vote with secret vote, suppression of the obligation to be owner to be eligible, the M.P.'s salary and equality proportional of the districts.
  • May: Kossuth and Wesselenyi, chiefs of the “party of the reforms” in Hungary, are stopped by the government of Vienna.
  • June 18th: News ultra-liberal Constitution in Spain: creation of an additional legislative room, introduction of an electoral system in national matter and recognition of the individual rights.
  • June 20th: Beginning of the long reign of the queen Victoria of the the United Kingdom (fine in 1901).
  • December 27th, Russia, Calendar Julien : Transformation of the 5th section of the Chancellery deprived into a ministry for the imperial Fields given to Paul Kiselev (Pavel Kiselyov). Deep reform of the local management of the peasants of State (car-administration). The tax per capita is replaced by a tax on land and additional grounds are granted the poorest peasants.

  • Turbid insurrectionary in Sicily: in a context of social agitation and economic crisis, a rumor making the government responsible to spread the Cholera to poison the people is spread in the populations of Messine, Syracuse and Catane, which is raised.
  • Désamortissement of the properties of the goods of the secular clergy operated by the banker progressist Alvárez Mendizábal in Spain. The goods of the institutions and the religious communities are put on sale, the State having to ensure the maintenance of the clergy.

France

See also: 1837 in France

Chronologies sets of themes

Art & culture

See also: 1837 in music, 1837 in literature, 1837 with the theater

  • old the Brahmi is deciphered: under the direction of James Princep, secretary of the Asian Company, an alphabet of oldest of the writings used in India is fixed (except for the kharosti).

  • Slavic Antiquities, in Slovak, of Safarik.
  • Construction of the church of the Saver with Moscow by Tuna (fine in 1883).

Sports

Science and technology

See also: 1837 in science

Economy & Company

  • July 18th: Launching with Bristol-board of the vapor Great Western , first blue Ribbon in 1838.
  • the Jean archduke founds with Graz Association for the promotion of industry and the Craft industry in interior Austria .
  • the prince Anatole Demidov, ironmaster of the Ural, entrusts to the French engineer Play the mission of studying the exploration of the coal of the Donets.

Births in 1837

Death in 1837

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