1637

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century

Decades: 1580s 1590s 1600s 1610s 1620s - 1630s - 1640s - 1650s 1660s 1670s 1680s

Years: 1632 1633 1634 1635 1636 - 1637 - 1638 1639 1640 1641 1642

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Events

• February 15 - Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor
• Pierre de Fermat makes a marginal claim to have proof of what would become known as Fermats Last Theorem.
• France places a few missionaries in the Côte d'Ivoire, a country they would come to rule more than 200 years later.
• England wages war against the Mashantucket Pequots

Births

• December 7 - Bernardo Pasquini, composer (+ (1710)
• Ottoman sultan Ahmed III
• Emperor Go-Sai of Japan

Deaths

• Prospero Alpini, Italian botanist.
• August 6 - Ben Jonson, English writer\n