1637

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1600s  1610s  1620s  – 1630s –  1640s  1650s  1660s
Years:	1634 1635 1636 – 1637 – 1638 1639 1640

1637 Media

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  May 26: The Mystic massacre, at least 400 members of the Pequot Indian tribe are killed by English settlers and their Narragansett and Mohican allies, in what is now the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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  Oil on canvas. Père Marquette and the Indians. The original hangs in the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I took a photograph on Sept. 19, 2009.

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  Francis Turner

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

• 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.