1837 in the United Kingdom

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1837 in the United Kingdom:

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Events from the year 1837 in the United Kingdom.

[edit] Events

• February 13 - Rowland Hill a government inquiry into postal reform discloses the idea of carrying letters in a separate sheet which folded to become an envelope and the idea of "a bit of paper" which could be affixed to a letter to flag that postage had been paid.
• May - William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone patent the electrical telegraph.
• June 3 - The London Hippodrome opens in Bayswater.

• June 20 - King William IV dies from heart failure at Windsor Castle. His niece, Princess Victoria of Kent ascends the throne as Queen Victoria.
• June 30 - England abolishes the use of pillory.
• July 13 - Queen Victoria moves into Buckingham Palace in London, the first monarch to live there.
• July 20 - Euston Station, London's first railway station, is opened.

[edit] Births

• 7 February - James Murray, lexicographer (d. 1915)
• March 23 - Charles Wyndham, actor and theatrical manager (d. 1919)
• April 5 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet (d. 1909)
• May 28 - George Ashlin, architect (d. 1921)
• November 14 - Lucas Barrett, naturalist (d. 1862)
• Gilbert Arthur à Beckett, writer (d. 1891)

[edit] Deaths

• January 20 - John Soane, British architect (b. 1753)
• January 23 - John Field, Irish composer (b. 1782)
• March 31 - John Constable, painter (b. 1776)
• June 20 - King William IV (b. 1765)