1837 in the United States

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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 - Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which would later become Mount Holyoke College