1637
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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.
| 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 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1637 MDCXXXVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2390 |
| Armenian calendar | 1086 ԹՎ ՌՁԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6387 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1558–1559 |
| Bengali calendar | 1044 |
| Berber calendar | 2587 |
| English Regnal year | 12 Cha. 1 – 13 Cha. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2181 |
| Burmese calendar | 999 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7145–7146 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 4333 or 4273 — to — 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 4334 or 4274 |
| Coptic calendar | 1353–1354 |
| Discordian calendar | 2803 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1629–1630 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5397–5398 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1693–1694 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1558–1559 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4737–4738 |
| Holocene calendar | 11637 |
| Igbo calendar | 637–638 |
| Iranian calendar | 1015–1016 |
| Islamic calendar | 1046–1047 |
| Japanese calendar | Kan'ei 14 (寛永１４年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1558–1559 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
| Korean calendar | 3970 |
| Minguo calendar | 275 before ROC 民前275年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 169 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2179–2180 |
| 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 |
Events
change- 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.