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

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.