1637

Years: 1634 1635 1636 - 1637 - 1638 1639 1640

Decades: 1600s 1610s 1620s - 1630s - 1640s 1650s 1660s

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century 1637 in various calendars Gregorian calendar 1637 MDCXXXVII Ab urbe condita 2390 Armenian calendar 1086 ԹՎ ՌՁԶ Assyrian calendar 6387 Balinese saka calendar 1558–1559 Bengali calendar 1044 Berber calendar 2587 English Regnal year 12 Cha. 1 – 13 Cha. 1 Buddhist calendar 2181 Burmese calendar 999 Byzantine calendar 7145–7146 Chinese calendar 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 4334 or 4127     — to — 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 4335 or 4128 Coptic calendar 1353–1354 Discordian calendar 2803 Ethiopian calendar 1629–1630 Hebrew calendar 5397–5398 Hindu calendars  - Vikram Samvat 1693–1694  - Shaka Samvat 1558–1559  - Kali Yuga 4737–4738 Holocene calendar 11637 Igbo calendar 637–638 Iranian calendar 1015–1016 Islamic calendar 1046–1047 Japanese calendar Kan'ei 14 (寛永１４年) Javanese calendar 1558–1559 Julian calendar Gregorian minus 10 days Korean calendar 3970 Minguo calendar 275 before ROC 民前275年 Nanakshahi calendar 169 Thai solar calendar 2179–2180 Tibetan calendar 阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 1763 or 1382 or 610     — to — 阴火牛年 (female Fire-Ox) 1764 or 1383 or 611

Events

• February 3 - Tulipmania collapses in Netherlands by government order
• February 15 - Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor
• December 17 - Shimabara Rebellion erupts in Japan
• Pierre de Fermat makes a marginal claim 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.
• England wages war against the Mashantucket Pequots
• First opera house, Teatro San Cassiona, opens in Venice
• René Descartes - Discours de la Methode

Births

• 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)
• Dietrich Buxtehude, German composer (d. 1707)
• Pierre Jurieu, French protestant leader (d. 1713)

Deaths

• February 15 - Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1578)
• April 1 - Niwa Nagashige, Japanese daimyo and retainer (b. 1571)
• August 6 - Ben Jonson, English writer (b. 1572)
• September 27 - Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint
• Nicholas Ferrar, English trader (b. 1592)