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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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Events of 1637

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

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.

★ April 10 - Plymouth Colony grants the "tenn menn of Saugust" a new settlement on Cape Cod, later named Sandwich, Massachusetts

★ May - Chinese encyclopedist Song Yingxing publishes his ''Tiangong Kaiwu'' (''Exploitation of the Works of Nature''), considered one of the most valuable encyclopedias of classical China.

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 Méthode''.

★ Elizabeth Poole becomes the first woman to have founded a town (Taunton, Massachusetts) in the Americas.

★ The Blessed Virgin is proclaimed Queen of Genoa.

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)

★ December 24 - Pierre Jurieu, French Protestant leader (d. 1713)

★ ''probable'' - Dieterich Buxtehude, German composer (d. 1707)

★ ''probable'' - Richard Head, English author (d. before 1686)
''See also .''

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)
''See also .''