On 17 March 1649 a French expedition of 203 men from Martinique, led by Jacques Dyel du Parquet who had been the Governor of Martinique on behalf of the Compagnie des Iles de l ' Amerique ( Company of the Isles of America ) since 1637, landed at St. Georges Harbour and constructed a fortified settlement, which they named Fort Annunciation.

* William Bradford ( 1590 – 1657 ), Prominent Leader and Governor of the Plymouth colony, in office 1621 – 1633, 1635 – 1636, 1637 – 1638, 1639 – 1644, 1645 – 1657

* February 21 – Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland ( b. 1637 )

* 1637 – Dutch Governor Wouter Van Twiller first purchases the island, then known as Hog Island, from the Canarsie Indians

St. Mary's County was the first county established in Maryland, in 1637, probably by an order of the Governor.

In 1637, the General Court of Massachusetts granted some < span style =" white-space: nowrap "> 2, 200 acres ( 9 km² )</ span > of land, including Huckins Farm land to the first Governor, John Winthrop, and to Deputy Governor Thomas Dudley.

West was a Governor of Virginia from 1635 to 1637.

In 1637 – 1640 and again in 1648 – 1654 he was Governor General in Finland, to which country he rendered inestimable services by his wise and provident rule.

He was appointed head of Kronobergs regemente in 1637, Major General in 1643, Privy Councilor in 1652, Field Marshal in 1656, under the terms of the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658 became Governor General of Scania, Halland and Blekinge, Lord High Admiral in 1664, and Chancellor of Lund University in 1666.

In 1637 it was divided into 15 parcels of land that were given by Governor John Winthrop to prominent men in Boston with the stipulation that each must erect a building on his land within two years.

Ultimately, Hutchinson was brought to civil trial by the General Court in November 1637, presided over by Governor John Winthrop, on the charge of “ traducing the ministers ”.

Governor William Jones ( 1624 – 1706 ) in 1659 ; Theophilus Eaton Jr., or Ellis as he was known, settled in Dublin, Ireland and married an Anne King ; and Elizabeth died in London in March 1637 before they had departed for the colonies.

Governor John Winthrop proclaimed the first official " Day of Thanksgiving " in 1637 to celebrate the return of men that had gone to Mystic, Connecticut to fight against the Pequot, an action that resulted in the deaths of more than 700 Pequot women, children, and men, which their people called a massacre.

Former Massachusetts Bay Colony | Massachusetts Governor John Endicott attacking the Niantic ( tribe ) on Block Island in the summer of 1637.

*** Fitz-John Winthrop ( 1637 – 1711 ): Governor of Connecticut

As a consolation, Kirke was knighted in 1633 and in 1637 he and his partners were given a royal charter giving them possession of Newfoundland with Kirke as Proprietary Governor.

Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, 2nd Proprietor and 6th and 9th Proprietary Governor of Maryland ( August 27, 1637 – February 21, 1715 ), inherited the colony in 1675 upon the death of his father, Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore.

* Governor Pedro Esteban Dávila ( 1631 – 1637 ).

* Governor Mendo de la Cueva y Benavidez ( 1637 – 1640 ).

Roger Ludlow was a magistrate in 1637 and 1638, and was then named as the first Deputy Governor of Connecticut.

Jacques-Rene de Brisay de Denonville, Marquis de Denonville ( 10 December 1637 – 22 September 1710 ) was Governor General of New France from 1685 to 1689 and was a key figure in the Beaver Wars.

Bowne became a merchant and married well, his wife Hannah Feake ( ca. 1637 – 1678 ), whom he married in 1656, being a great-niece of Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts.

It was purchased from the Indians in 1637 by Dutch Governor Wouter Van Twiller and used for farming.

), De Tallagio non Concedendo, though it is printed among the statutes of the realm, and was cited as a statute in the preamble to the Petition of Right in 1628, and by the judges in John Hampden's case in 1637, is probably an imperfect and unauthoritative abstract of the Confirmatio Cartarum.

In the midst of this, in 1637, De Ruyter became captain of a private ship meant to hunt for raiders operating from Dunkirk who were preying on Dutch merchant shipping.

* De studio militari syntagma ( 1637 ), esteemed in its day ;

# Axel Julius De la Gardie ( 1637 – 1710 ), Field Marshal and Governor-General over Estonia.

* " De numeris perfectis disceptatio " ( 1637 );

* De animalibus insectis libri septem, cum singulorum iconibus ad viuum expressis ( Bologna, 1602 ) 1637 edition

** Axel Julius De la Gardie ( 1637 – 1710 ), field marshal

* Axel Julius De la Gardie ( 1637 – 1710 ), Swedish Field Marshal, son of Jacob.

De Belin died in 1637, and in 1639 Rotrou bought the post of lieutenant particulier au baüliage at Dreux.

* 1637, L. Carduchi ( Spanish )

* Fickes, Michael L. "' They Could Not Endure That Yoke ': The Captivity of Pequot Women and Children after the War of 1637 ," New England Quarterly, vol.

Titelouze gave Mersenne advice on L ' Harmonie Universelle, published from 1634 to 1637.

* 1631 – 1637 Nicolas de L ' Hôpital, marquis de Vitry

The theatre's inaugural performance, on 6 March 1637, was L ' Andromeda by Francesco Manelli and Benedetto Ferrari.

He appears to have been no more than neutral, but is credited with an attempt at reconciliation between the parties in a pamphlet printed in 1637, L ' Inconnu et veritable amy de messieurs de Scudéry et Corneille.

* Cynthia ’ s Revels, play by Ben Jonson ( 1572 – 1637 )

* 1637 La Mort d ’ Achille et la Dispute de ses armes

* 1637 Gustaphe ou l ’ Heureuse Ambition

Remington ’ s father was a colonel in the Civil War whose family arrived in the United States from England in 1637.

The dGe-lugs-pa hierarch, the Fifth Dalai Lama ( 1617 – 82 ), summoned the Oirat Güshi Khan Toro-Baiku, whose 50, 000 men in early 1637 crushed Tsogtu ’ s 30, 000 at Ulaan-Khoshuu ; Tsogtu Taiji was killed.

Following spectacular collapse of the Tulip mania in 1637, Holland ’ s government contemplated the idea of taking control of New Netherland from the Company and using the colony for resettlement of individuals impoverished by failed tulip bulb speculations.

* An old church tower dating from 1637 is the town ’ s oldest surviving building.

The book claims that the myth of Arcadia and its underground river became a prominent cultural fashion and inspired various artistic works such as Jerusalem Delivered ( 1581 ) by Torquato Tasso, Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia ( 1590 ) by Philip Sidney, Les Bergers d ’ Arcadie ( 1637 – 1638 ) by Nicolas Poussin and the Kubla Khan ( 1816 ) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

In 1637 Charles I tried to raise money by doubling the ‘ voluntary ’ tax on coal in return for allowing the Newcastle Hostmen to regulate production and fix prices.