1437 facts for kids

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1400s  1410s  1420s  – 1430s –  1440s  1450s  1460s
Years:	1434 1435 1436 – 1437 – 1438 1439 1440

Events of 1437

• Foundation of All Souls College, University of Oxford.
• Ulugh Beg's Zij-i-Sultani star catalogue is published.
• Kazan Khanate is established.
• Edinbourgh is made the capital of Scotland.

1437 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1437 MCDXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2190
Armenian calendar	886 ԹՎ ՊՁԶ
Assyrian calendar	6187
Bahá'í calendar	-407–-406
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	丙辰年十一月廿五日 (4073/4133-11-25) — to — 丁巳年十二月初五日 (4074/4134-12-5)
Coptic calendar	1153–1154
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
Iranian calendar	815–816
Islamic calendar	840–841
Japanese calendar	Eikyō 9 (永享9年)
Korean calendar	3770
Minguo calendar	475 before ROC 民前475年
Thai solar calendar	1980

Births

• October 4 – John IV, Duke of Bavaria
• date unknown – Isaac Abrabanel, Jewish statesman (died 1508)
• probable – Elizabeth Woodville, Queen consort of King Edward IV of England (died 1492)

Deaths

• January 3 – Catherine of Valois, queen of Henry V of England (born 1401)
• February 21 – King James I of Scotland (b. 1394)
• June 10 – Joanna of Navarre, daughter of Charles the Bad, King of Navarre (born 1370)
• November 20 – Thomas Langley, cardinal bishop of Durham and lord chancellor of England (born 1363)
• December 9 – Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1368)
• date unknown
  • Niccolò de' Niccoli, Italian Renaissance humanist (born 1364)
  • John II Stanley of the Isle of Man