The grand stairway of the Palais Garnier Opera in Paris, photo credt isogood

In the year 1637, the tragicomedy Le Cid is first performed in Paris, France (Jan), Tulip mania - generally considered the first recorded speculative bubble - collapses in the Dutch Republic (Feb 3), the first English venture to China is attempted, with six ships to Macau and Canton (Jun 27), Pierre de Fermat makes a notation claiming to have proof of what will become known as Fermat’s Last Theorem, world’s first public opera house opens in Venice, Italy - and all these fine people were born:

1637-xxxx Mary Rowlandson* (b White) colonial woman captured by Native Americans and ransomed after 11 weeks/followed by perhaps the first “bestseller” novel - Somerset, Somersetshire, England (1711/c.73)

1637-0114 Mattia de Rossi* engineer/architect - Rome (1695/58)

1637-0212 Jan Swammerdam* biologist/microscopist/the first to observe red blood cells - Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (1680/43)

1637-0312 Anne Hyde* first wife of the future King James II of England - Windsor, Berkshire, England (1671/34)
1637-0314 Fitz-John Winthrop* soldier in England/governor of the Colony of Connecticut - Ipswich, Massachusetts (1707/70)

1637-0416 Jean-Jacques Clérion* sculptor - Aix-en-Provence, France (1714/77)

1637-0522 John Kyrle* philanthropist - Dymock, Gloucestershire, England (1724/87)

1637-0601 Jacques Marquette* French-American Jesuit missionary/active around Lake Michigan - Laon, Kingdom of France (1675/37)

1637-0916 Elisha Cooke Sr.* Massachusetts colonial politician/judge  - Boston, Colony of Massachusetts Bay (1715/78)

1637-1125 Armand de Gramont* Count of Guiche/adventurer/one of the greatest playboys of the 17th century - France (1673/36)

Updated 8.7.2021
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