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.

Births

• January 1 - Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (d. 1685)
• February 12 - Jan Swammerdam, Dutch scientist (d. 1680)
• June 10 - Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d. 1675)
• August 27 - Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (d. 1715)
• November 30 - Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (d. 1698)
• December 6 - Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (d. 1714)
• December 7 - Bernardo Pasquini, Italian composer (d. 1710)
• Dieterich Buxtehude, German composer (d. 1707)
• Pierre Jurieu, French protestant leader (d. 1713)

See also Category:1637 births.

Deaths

• February 15 - Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1578)
• March 19 - Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal and statesman (b. 1570)
• April 1 - Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (b. 1571)
• May 19 - Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (b. 1588)
• June 24 - Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (b. 1580)
• August 6 - Ben Jonson, English writer (b. 1572)
• August 10 - Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (b. 1582)
• August 14 - Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (b. 1552)
• September 8 - Robert Fludd, English mystic (b. 1574)
• September 27 - Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino saint
• Nicholas Ferrar, English trader (b. 1592)

See also Category:1637 deaths.

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