Year by year · 17th century

1637

1637 in world history: 6 events, 5 births, 10 deaths and 1 work. 1,102 recorded states existed that year.

Events

  1. 3 February

    Dutch tulip prices collapse

    At a bulb auction in Haarlem, buyers failed to appear and prices for tulip contracts crashed. 'Tulip mania' is often cited as the first recorded speculative bubble, though its damage is now thought modest.

  2. 26 May

    English colonists destroy the Pequot fort at Mystic

    Connecticut forces and their Mohegan and Narragansett allies set fire to the fortified village, killing some 400 to 700 Pequot, many of them women and children. The Pequot War ended months later.

  3. 23 July

    Riot greets Charles I's new prayer book in Edinburgh

    Worshippers in St Giles' Cathedral protested violently when the new Scottish Book of Common Prayer was first read. The resistance led to the National Covenant, the Bishops' Wars and the British civil wars.

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In the profiles

  • JoseonInjo surrenders to the Qing after the siege of Namhansanseong
  • Duchy of PomeraniaBogislaw XIV dies, the last Griffin duke

Wars and longer events

Born in 1637 5

Died in 1637 10

Works 1

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