1637
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| Centuries: | 16th century - 17th century - 18th century |
| Decades: | 1600s 1610s 1620s - 1630s - 1640s 1650s 1660s |
| Years: | 1634 1635 1636 - 1637 - 1638 1639 1640 |
| 1637 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1637 (MDCXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1637
[edit] January - June
- February 3 - Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) by government order.
- February 15 - Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
[edit] July - December
- October 13 - The launching ceremony is held for HMS Sovereign of the Seas, the gilded warship of the British Royal Navy.
- December 17 - Shimabara Rebellion erupts in Japan.
[edit] Undated
- Pierre de Fermat makes a notation, in a document margin, claiming to have proof of what would become known as Fermat's last theorem.
- France places a few missionaries in the Côte d'Ivoire, a country it would come to rule more than 200 years later.
- The Kingdom of England wages war against the Mashantucket Pequots.
- First opera house, Teatro San Cassiona, opens in Venice.
- René Descartes writes Discours de la Methode.
- Elizabeth Poole becomes the first woman to have founded a town (Taunton, Massachusetts) in the Americas.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1637 MDCXXXVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2390 |
| Armenian calendar | 1086 ԹՎ ՌՁԶ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -207 – -206 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2181 |
| Chinese calendar | 4273/4333-12-6 (丙子年十二月初六日) — to —
4274/4334-11-16(丁丑年十一月十六日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1629 – 1630 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5397 – 5398 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1692 – 1693 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1559 – 1560 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4738 – 4739 |
| Holocene calendar | 11637 |
| Iranian calendar | 1015 – 1016 |
| Islamic calendar | 1046 – 1047 |
| Japanese calendar | Kan'ei 14 (寛永14年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2297 (皇紀2297年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 11637 |
| Julian calendar | 1682 |
| Korean calendar | 3970 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2180 |
- January 1 - Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (d. 1685)
- February 12 - Jan Swammerdam, Dutch scientist (d. 1680)
- June 10 - Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d. 1675)
- August 27 - Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (d. 1715)
- November 30 - Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (d. 1698)
- December 6 - Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (d. 1714)
- December 7 - Bernardo Pasquini, Italian composer (d. 1710)
[edit] Unknown dates
- Dieterich Buxtehude, German composer (d. 1707)
- Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant leader (d. 1713)
See also Category:1637 births.
[edit] Deaths
- February 15 - Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1578)
- March 19 - Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal and statesman (b. 1570)
- April 1 - Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (b. 1571)
- May 19 - Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (b. 1588)
- June 24 - Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (b. 1580)
- August 6 - Ben Jonson, English writer (b. 1572)
- August 10 - Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (b. 1582)
- August 14 - Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (b. 1552)
- September 8 - Robert Fludd, English mystic (b. 1574)
- September 27 - Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint (born c.1600)
- December 4 - Nicholas Ferrar, English trader (b. 1592)
- December 27 - Vincenzo Giustiniani, banker (b. 1564)
[edit] Unknown dates
- (none)
See also Category:1637 deaths.
