March 1837 in History

Events in History

Mar 3 Congress increases US Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9

Historic Event

Mar 3 US President Andrew Jackson and Congress recognize the Republic of Texas

President Inaugurated

Mar 4 Martin Van Buren inaugurated as the 8th President of the United States

Mar 4 Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American
Mar 4 Chicago becomes incorporated as a city

Historic Event

Mar 12 British poet laureate Robert Southey writes in reply to 20 year-old Charlotte Brontë "Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be." [1]

Mar 24 Canada gives its black citizens the right to vote

Birthdays in History

Mar 1 Ion Creanga, Romanian fairy tale author (Amintiti the Copilarie)
Mar 1 William Dean Howells, American novelist/critic/editor (Atlantic)
Mar 7 Henry Draper, American astronomer (Moon, Orion Nebula), born in Prince Edward County, Virginia (d. 1882)
Mar 14 Charles Ammi Cutter, American librarian (Expansive classification), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1903)

Grover Cleveland

Mar 18 Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th US President (1885-89, 1893-97), born in Caldwell, New Jersey (d. 1908)

Mar 19 Robert Daniel Johnston, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1919)
Mar 24 Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders and son of Leopold I, born in Royal Castle of Laeken, Belgium (d. 1905)
Mar 31 Robert Ross McBurney, 1st paid secretary of the YMCA

Deaths in History

Mar 13 Nikita P Panin, Russian diplomat and minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 66
Mar 29 Maria Fitzherbert, English morganatic wife of King George IV, dies at 80
Mar 31 John Constable, English landscape painter (Hay Wain), dies at 60