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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
1637 in literature
1637 in science

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

  • February 12 - Jan Swammerdam, Dutch scientist (d. 1680)
  • December 7 - Bernardo Pasquini, composer (d. 1710)
  • Ottoman sultan Ahmed III
  • Emperor Go-Sai of Japan
  • Deaths

  • February 15 - Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor
  • April 1 - Niwa Nagashige, Japanese daimyo and retainer
  • August 6 - Ben Jonson, English writer
  • Nicholas Ferrar involved in the London Virginia Company
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