1637

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  • 1639
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1637 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1637
MDCXXXVII
Ab urbe condita2390
Armenian calendar1086
ԹՎ ՌՁԶ
Assyrian calendar6387
Balinese saka calendar1558–1559
Bengali calendar1044
Berber calendar2587
English Regnal year12 Cha. 1 – 13 Cha. 1
Buddhist calendar2181
Burmese calendar999
Byzantine calendar7145–7146
Chinese calendar丙子年 (Fire Rat)
4333 or 4273
    — to —
丁丑年 (Fire Ox)
4334 or 4274
Coptic calendar1353–1354
Discordian calendar2803
Ethiopian calendar1629–1630
Hebrew calendar5397–5398
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1693–1694
 - Shaka Samvat1558–1559
 - Kali Yuga4737–4738
Holocene calendar11637
Igbo calendar637–638
Iranian calendar1015–1016
Islamic calendar1046–1047
Japanese calendarKan'ei 14
(寛永１４年)
Javanese calendar1558–1559
Julian calendarGregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar3970
Minguo calendar275 before ROC
民前275年
Nanakshahi calendar169
Thai solar calendar2179–2180
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
February 18: Battle off Lizard Point

1637 (MDCXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1637th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 637th year of the 2nd millennium, the 37th year of the 17th century, and the 8th year of the 1630s decade. As of the start of 1637, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[]

January–June[]

  • January – Pierre Corneille's tragicomedy Le Cid is first performed, in Paris, France.
  • February 3 – Tulip mania collapses in the Dutch Republic.[1]
  • February 15 – Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.[2]
  • February 18 – Eighty Years' War – Battle off Lizard Point: Off the coast of Cornwall, England, a Spanish fleet intercepts an Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by six warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them.
  • March 25 – The Blessed Virgin is proclaimed Queen of Genoa.[3]
  • April 10 – Plymouth Colony grants the "tenn menn of Saugust" a new settlement on Cape Cod, later named Sandwich, Massachusetts.
  • April 30 – King Charles I of England issues a proclamation, attempting to stem emigration to the North American colonies.[4]
  • May 26 – Pequot War – Mystic massacre: A band of English settlers under Captain John Mason, and their Narragansett and Mohegan allies, set fire to a fortified village of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe near the Mystic River. Between 400 and 700 people, mostly women, children and old men, are killed.
  • 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.
  • June 27 – The first English venture to China is attempted by Captain John Weddell, who sails into port in Macau and Canton during the late Ming Dynasty, with six ships. The voyages are for trade, which is dominated here by the Portuguese (at this time combined with the power of Spain). He brings 38,421 pairs of eyeglasses, perhaps the first recorded European-made eyeglasses to enter China.[5]
  • July 23 – After a court battle, King Charles I of England hands over title to the North American colony of Massachusetts to Sir Ferdinando Gorges, one of the founders of Plymouth Council for New England.
  • September 29 – 42-year-old Lorenzo Ruiz dies.
  • October 13 – English Royal Navy first-rate ship of the line HMS Sovereign of the Seas is launched at Woolwich Dockyard at a cost of £65,586, adorned from stern to bow with gilded carvings, after a design by Anthony van Dyck.
  • December 17 – The Shimabara Rebellion erupts in Japan, when 30,000 peasants in the heavily Catholic area of northern Kyūshū revolt.

Date unknown[]

  • Second Manchu invasion of Korea: The Joseon court reluctantly submits to the Manchu's demands of vassalhood, while continuing to pledge loyalty to the Chinese Ming Dynasty.
  • Pierre de Fermat makes a notation, in a document margin, claiming to have proof of what will become known as Fermat's Last Theorem.
  • René Descartes promotes intellectual rigour in his Discourse on the Method, and introduces the Cartesian coordinate system in its appendix La Géométrie (published in Leiden).[6]
  • France places a few missionaries in the Ivory Coast, a country it will rule more than 200 years later.
  • The first opera house, Teatro San Cassiano, opens in Venice.
  • Scottish army officer Robert Monro publishes Monro, His Expedition With the Worthy Scots Regiment Called Mac-Keys in London, the first military history in English.[7]
  • Elizabeth Poole becomes the first female founder of a town (Taunton, Massachusetts) in the Americas.
  • Richard Norwood's book The Seaman's Practice is published for the first time.

Births[]

Jan Swammerdam
Johan Vibe
Jacques Marquette
Francis Turner

January–March[]

April–June[]

July–September[]

October–December[]

Deaths[]

Ben Jonson

References[]

  1. ^ Leyster, Judith (1993). Judith Leyster : a Dutch master and her world. Zwolle Worcester, Massachusetts: Waanders Publishers Worcester Art Museum. p. 214. ISBN 9789066302709.
  2. ^ LastName, FirstName (2006). Britannica concise encyclopedia. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica. p. 666. ISBN 9781593394929.
  3. ^ Hatton, Ragnhild (1997). Royal and republican sovereignty in early modern Europe : essays in memory of Ragnhild Hatton. Cambridge England New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. p. 294. ISBN 9780521419109.
  4. ^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 177–178. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  5. ^ Brook, Timothy (1998). The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China p. 57. ISBN 0520221540.
  6. ^ Crilly, Tony (2007). 50 Mathematical Ideas you really need to know. London: Quercus. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-84724-008-8.
  7. ^ Monro, Robert (1999). Monro, his expedition with the Worthy Scots Regiment called Mac-Keys. Westport, Conn: Praeger. p. xv. ISBN 9780275962678.
  8. ^ Herman Goodman (1953). Notable Contributors to the Knowledge of Dermatology. Medical Lay Press. p. 110.
  9. ^ Fryde, E. B. (1996). Handbook of British chronology. Cambridge England: New York Cambridge University Press. p. 498. ISBN 9780521563505.
  10. ^ Greene, David (1985). Greene's biographical encyclopedia of composers. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday. p. 150. ISBN 9780385142786.
  11. ^ 1637 at the Encyclopædia Britannica
  12. ^ Lassner, Martin (July 18, 2011). "Johann Rudolf Stadler". Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse (DHS) (in French). Retrieved April 13, 2020.
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