1637 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1637?
- February 3, 1637 – Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts.
- February 15, 1637 – Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
- February 18, 1637 – Eighty Years’ War: Off the coast of Cornwall, England, a Spanish fleet intercepts an important Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy of 44 vessels escorted by 6 warships, destroying or capturing 20 of them.
- May 26, 1637 – Pequot War: A combined Protestant and Mohegan force under English Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Native Americans.
Who Were Born In The Year 1637?
- February 12, 1637 – Jan Swammerdam, Dutch biologist (d. 1680)
- March 12, 1637 – Anne Hyde, wife of James II of England (d. 1671)
- June 10, 1637 – Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d. 1675)
- August 16, 1637 – Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German countess and poet (d. 1706)
- August 27, 1637 – Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (d. 1715)
- November 30, 1637 – Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (d. 1698)
- December 6, 1637 – Sir Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (d. 1714)
- December 7, 1637 – Bernardo Pasquini, Italian composer (d. 1710)
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