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| February 12, 1837 | Tredegar Iron Company secures a charter from the state to become a corporation | Virginia |
| April 9, 1837 | Lieutenant Robert E. Lee is ordered to St. Louis to rework the Mississippi River commercial channel. | Missouri |
| Robert E. Lee | ||
| May 9, 1837 | Banks in New York City see a tremendous outflow (some estimates range as high as $700,000) of hard currency (gold and silver) as a result of the Specie Circular. | New York |
| Specie Circular | ||
| Panic of 1837 | ||
| May 10, 1837 | New York City banks suspend hard currency payments because of depleted reserves. The "Panic of 1837" that occurred today results in a 6-year depression | New York |
| Specie Circular | ||
| Panic of 1837 | ||
| July 1, 1837 | Entering West Point in the class of 1841, Don Carlos Buell, | |
| Don Carlos Buell | ||
| September 2, 1837 | Samuel F. B. Morse demonstrates a crude version of the telegraph. | |
| Telegraph | ||
| October 12, 1837 | To battle the depression that resulted from the Panic of 1837, Congress approves the issuance of 10 million dollars in bonds. | |
| Panic of 1837 | ||
| November 7, 1837 | Elijah P. Lovejoy, a Presbyterian minister who had established an abolition newspaper in Alton, Ill., was shot to death | |
| abolition | ||
| December 6, 1837 | Robert E. Lee submits a plan to save the port of St. Louis | Missouri |
| Robert E. Lee |
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