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What Happened In History Year 1637

Historical Events for the Year 1637

  • 3rd February » Tulip mania collapses in the Dutch Republic known as United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb futures contract e.g contracts.
  • 15th February » Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor or Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
  • 26th May » Pequot War: A combined Protestant and Mohegan force under the English Captain John Mason (c.1600–1672) John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut, Mystic massacre massacring approximately 500 Native Americans in the United States Native Americans.

Famous Birthdays in 1637

  • 11th February » Friedrich Nicolaus Bruhns, German composer and director (d. 1718)
  • 12th February » Jan Swammerdam, Dutch biologist (d. 1680)
  • 12th March » Anne Hyde, English wife of James II of England (d. 1671)
  • 1st June » Jacques Marquette, French missionary and explorer (d. 1675)
  • 16th August » Countess Emilie Juliane of Barby-Mühlingen (d. 1706)
  • 27th August » Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, English politician, 2nd List of Proprietors of Maryland e.g Proprietor of Maryland (d. 1715)
  • 30th November » Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian and author (d. 1698)
  • 6th December » Edmund Andros, English politician, 4th Colonial Governor of New York (d. 1714)
  • 7th December » Bernardo Pasquini, Italian organist and composer (d. 1710)

Famous Deaths in History for 1637

  • 15th February » Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1578)
  • 19th March » Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal (b. 1570)
  • 30th April » Niwa Nagashige, Japanese daimyo (b. 1571)
  • 19th May » Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (b. 1588)
  • 24th June » Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (b. 1580)
  • 6th August » Ben Jonson, English poet and playwright (b. 1572)
  • 8th September » Robert Fludd, English physician, mathematician, and cosmologist (b. 1574)
  • 29th September » Lorenzo Ruiz, Filipino martyr and saint (b. 1600)
  • 7th October » Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (b. 1587)
  • 14th October » Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (b. 1552)

Historical events for the year 1637 by month