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 v • d • e

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).

Contents 1 Events of 1637 1.1 January - June 1.2 July - December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 2.1 Unknown dates 3 Deaths 3.1 Unknown dates

Events of 1637

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.

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.

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.

Births

1637 in other calendars

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
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• 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)

Unknown dates

• Dieterich Buxtehude, German composer (d. 1707)
• Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant leader (d. 1713)

See also Category:1637 births.

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)

Unknown dates

• (none)

See also Category:1637 deaths.
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