What is 1637?
{{Year nav|1637}} {{Year in various calendars|1637}} {{Year article header|1637}} == Events == * [[February 3]] – [[Tulip mania]] collapses in the [[Dutch Republic|United Provinces]] (now the [[Netherlands]]) by government order * [[February 15]] – [[Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor|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. [[Category:1637| ]]