1437
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
| Decades: | 1400s 1410s 1420s – 1430s – 1440s 1450s 1460s |
| Years: | 1434 1435 1436 – 1437 – 1438 1439 1440 |
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| 1437 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1437 MCDXXXVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2190 |
| Armenian calendar | 886 ԹՎ ՊՁԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6187 |
| Bengali calendar | 844 |
| Berber calendar | 2387 |
| English Regnal year | 15 Hen. 6 – 16 Hen. 6 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1981 |
| Burmese calendar | 799 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6945–6946 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 4133 or 4073 — to — 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 4134 or 4074 |
| Coptic calendar | 1153–1154 |
| Discordian calendar | 2603 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1429–1430 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5197–5198 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1493–1494 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1359–1360 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4538–4539 |
| Holocene calendar | 11437 |
| Igbo calendar | 437–438 |
| Iranian calendar | 815–816 |
| Islamic calendar | 840–841 |
| Japanese calendar | Eikyō 9 (永享９年) |
| Julian calendar | 1437 MCDXXXVII |
| Korean calendar | 3770 |
| Minguo calendar | 475 before ROC 民前475年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1979–1980 |
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The letter from Eric of Pomerania to Malmö, about its coat of arms
Year 1437 (MCDXXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- February 20–21 – James I of Scotland is fatally stabbed at Perth in a failed coup by his uncle and former ally Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl.
- March 25 – In a ceremony in Holyrood Abbey, James II of Scotland is crowned at the age of six by Pope Eugene IV.
- April 23 – Malmö in Denmark (now Sweden) receives its current coat of arms.
- September 20–October 19 – A Portuguese attempt to conquer Tangier fails and Prince Ferdinand is taken hostage.
- December 9 – Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor dies.
Date unknown
- Ulugh Beg's Zij-i Sultani star catalogue is published.
- The Kazan Khanate is established.
- Edinburgh is made the capital of Scotland.
- Sandside Chase in the north of Scotland: Clan Mackay defeat the Clan Gunn of Caithness.
Births
- March 7 – Anna of Saxony, Electress of Brandenburg (d. 1512)
- October 4 – John IV, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1463)
- date unknown – Isaac Abravanel, Jewish statesman (d. 1508)
- probable – Elizabeth Woodville, Queen consort of King Edward IV of England (d. 1492)
Deaths
- January 3 – Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry V of England (b. 1401)
- January 22 – Niccolò de' Niccoli, Italian Renaissance humanist (b. 1364)
- February 21 – King James I of Scotland (b. 1394) (murdered)
- March 26 – Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl, Scottish nobleman and regicide (executed)
- June 10 – Joan, daughter of Charles the Bad, King of Navarre, widowed Queen Consort of England (born 1370)
- November 20 – Thomas Langley, cardinal bishop of Durham and lord chancellor of England (b. 1363)
- December 9 – Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1368)
- date unknown – John II Stanley of the Isle of Man
