1437

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

1437 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1437 MCDXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2190
Armenian calendar	886 ԹՎ ՊՁԶ
Assyrian calendar	6187
Balinese saka calendar	1358–1359
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) 4134 or 3927     — to — 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 4135 or 3928
Coptic calendar	1153–1154
Discordian calendar	2603
Ethiopian calendar	1429–1430
Hebrew calendar	5197–5198
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1493–1494
- Shaka Samvat	1358–1359
- Kali Yuga	4537–4538
Holocene calendar	11437
Igbo calendar	437–438
Iranian calendar	815–816
Islamic calendar	840–841
Japanese calendar	Eikyō 9 (永享９年)
Javanese calendar	1352–1353
Julian calendar	1437 MCDXXXVII
Korean calendar	3770
Minguo calendar	475 before ROC 民前475年
Nanakshahi calendar	−31
Thai solar calendar	1979–1980
Tibetan calendar	阳火龙年 (male Fire-Dragon) 1563 or 1182 or 410     — to — 阴火蛇年 (female Fire-Snake) 1564 or 1183 or 411

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 11–25 – Nova Scorpii AD 1437 is observed from Seoul, Korea.
• March 25 – In a ceremony in Holyrood Abbey, James II of Scotland is crowned at the age of six by Pope Eugene IV. For security of the crown, the capital of Scotland is moved to Edinburgh, from Dunfermline.
• April 23 – Malmö in Denmark (now Sweden) receives its current coat of arms.
• June – A peasant army gathers at Bobâlna during the Transylvanian peasant revolt. The revolt will be crushed by January of next year.
• September 20–October 19 – A Portuguese attempt to conquer Tangier fails, and Prince Ferdinand is taken hostage.
• December 9 – Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, dies, and is succeeded by Frederick III.

Date unknown

• Sandside Chase in the north of Scotland: Clan Mackay defeat the Clan Gunn of Caithness.
• The Kazan Khanate is established.
• Ulugh Beg's Zij-i Sultani star catalogue is published.

Births

• March 7 – Anna of Saxony, Electress of Brandenburg (d. 1512)
• April 30 – János Thurzó, Hungarian businessman (d. 1508)
• July 22 – John Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton, English Baron (d. 1498)
• 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 of Navarre, Queen of England (b. 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