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| 1837 |
| | | In The American Scholar Ralph Waldo Emerson urges his student audience to heed their own intellectuals rather than those of Europe | |
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| 1837 |
| | | Oberlin College in Ohio becomes the first in the USA to enrol women as degree students | |
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| 1837 |
| | | Rebellions in Canada reveal widespread discontent with the British administration, particularly among the French settlers | |
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| 1837 |
| | | Zanzibar becomes the main place of residence of the sultan of Oman | |
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| 1837 |
| | | Hector Berlioz's requiem mass, the Grande messe des morts, has its first performance in Paris | |
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| 1837 |
| | | The first trains run between London and Birmingham on the railway designed by Robert Stephenson | |
|  | Primrose Hill Tunnel, c.1837
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| 1837 |
| | | Charles Dickens' first novel, Oliver Twist, begins monthly publication (in book form, 1838) | |
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| 1838 |
| | | An Irish packet steamer, the Sirius, becomes the first steamship to cross the Atlantic, completing the journey to New York in 19 days | |
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| 1838 |
| | | Brunel's Great Western, a wooden paddle-steamer, arives in New York the day after the Sirius, with the record for an Atlantic crossing already reduced to 15 days | |
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| 1838 |
| | | US inventor Samuel Morse gives the first public demonstration, in Philadelphia, of his electric telegraph | |
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