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  • Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
    1837
    Alfred Nobel

    Nobel's father moved to Saint Petersburg

    Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
    1837

    Nobel's father moved to Saint Petersburg in 1837 and grew successful there as a manufacturer of machine tools and explosives. He invented veneer lathe and started work on the torpedo.




  • France
    1837
    Cameras

    Daguerreotype

    France
    1837

    Daguerre succeeded in developing a high-contrast and extremely sharp image by exposing on a plate coated with silver iodide and exposing this plate again to mercury vapor. By 1837, he was able to fix the images with a common salt solution. He called this process Daguerreotype and tried unsuccessfully for a couple of years to commercialize it. Eventually, with the help of the scientist and politician François Arago, the French government acquired Daguerre's process for public release. In exchange, pensions were provided to Daguerre as well as Niépce's son, Isidore.




  • Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
    1837
    Frederick Douglass

    Douglass met and fell in love with Anna Murray

    Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
    1837

    Douglass first tried to escape from Freeland, who had hired him from his owner, but was unsuccessful. In 1837, Douglass met and fell in love with Anna Murray, a free black woman in Baltimore about five years older than he. Her free status strengthened his belief in the possibility of gaining his own freedom. Murray encouraged him and supported his efforts by aid and money.




  • Illinois, U.S.
    1837
    Abraham Lincoln

    "The Institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy"

    Illinois, U.S.
    1837

    In 1837 Lincoln declared, "The Institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy, but the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils." He echoed Henry Clay's support for the American Colonization Society which advocated a program of abolition in conjunction with settling freed slaves in Liberia.




  • London, England, United Kingdom`
    1837
    Buckingham Palace

    Buckingham Palace finally became the principal royal residence

    London, England, United Kingdom`
    1837

    Buckingham Palace finally became the principal royal residence in 1837, on the accession of Queen Victoria, who was the first monarch to reside there; her predecessor William IV had died before its completion.




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