1437

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Year 1437 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1437

• All Souls College, University of Oxford is founded.
• Ulugh Beg's Zij-i-Sultani star catalogue is published.
• The Kazan Khanate is established.
• Edinburgh is made the capital of Scotland.
• Malmö in Sweden receives its current coat of arms.

Births

• October 4 - John IV, Duke of Bavaria
• date unknown - Isaac Abrabanel, 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)
• 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 (b. 1363)
• December 9 - Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1368)
• date unknown
• Niccolò de' Niccoli, Italian Renaissance humanist (b. 1364)
• John II Stanley of the Isle of Man

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