1837
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1837 is the 37th year of the 19th century and the 7th year of the 1830s.
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Art and culture
- The start of the Victorian era (ends in 1901)
- La Vénus d'Ille by Prosper Mérimée
- Invention of telegraph in Great Britain and the United States;
- Nathaniel Hawthorne collected some of his stories as Twice-Told Tales
- Woyzeck by Georg Büchner
- The Conqueror Worm by Edgar Allan Poe
- Les Cent Contes drolatiques (1832 - 37) by by Honoré de Balzac
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Births
- March 22 – Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione (d. 1899)
- April 5 – Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (d. 1909)
- October 30 – Jean-Pierre Brisset, French writer (d. 1919)
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Deaths
- John Constable (1776–1837), British painter
- October 10 - Charles Fourier, French philosopher (b. 1772)
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