1437

1437 (MCDXXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1437th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 437th year of the 2nd millennium, the 37th year of the 15th century, and the 8th year of the 1430s decade. As of the start of 1437, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

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

1437 in other 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) 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	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

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
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) 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	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

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