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1837
 
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After a victory at Vegkop, Boers massacre the inhabitants of a dozen Ndebele villages in secret dawn raids       
1837
 
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Piet Retief emerges as the new leader of the Great Trek, replacing Potgieter        
1837
 
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The 18-year-old Victoria comes to the throne in Britain, beginning the long Victorian era      
Winterhalter Queen Victoria (detail)
National Maritime Museum
1837
 
    
Work begins on Charles Barry's spectacular design for London's new Houses of Parliament       
Houses of Parliament, c.1851
Guildhall Library
c. 1837
 
    
The Whig party in Britain begin referring to themselves as Liberals       
1837
 
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Potgieter defeats the Ndebele at the Marico river and drives them north of the Limpopo        
1837
 
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Piet Retief reaches a provisional agreement with Dingaan, the Zulu leader, for a Boer settlement in southern Natal       
1837
 
    
In The American Scholar Ralph Waldo Emerson urges his student audience to heed their own intellectuals rather than those of Europe       
1837
 
   
Oberlin College in Ohio becomes the first in the USA to enrol women as degree students      
1837
 
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Rebellions in Canada reveal widespread discontent with the British administration, particularly among the French settlers