1637
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| Years: 1634 1635 1636 - 1637 - 1638 1639 1640 | |||
| Decades: 1600s 1610s 1620s - 1630s - 1640s 1650s 1660s | |||
| Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
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Events
- February 3 - Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the 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
- Elizabeth Poole becomes the first woman to have founded a town (Taunton, Massachusetts) in the Americas.
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)
- March 19 - Peter Pazmany, 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
- Nicholas Ferrar, English trader (b. 1592)
