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1437

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{{C15 year in topic}}File:Malmö stads vapenbrev, 1437.jpg to Malmö, about its coat of arms]]Year 1437 (MCDXXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

= January–March =

  • January 15– The Compacts of Basel are ratified by the Council of Basel in Switzerland, as the Roman Catholic Church ends its campaign against the Hussites. Among other things, the Church authorizes Hussite priests to administer sacramental wine to their congregations as part of the Communion during the Eucharist before Easter without declaring the same to be heresy, but stops short of allowing the Communion wafer.{{cite book |last=Stieber |first=Joachim W. |year=1978 |title=Pope Eugenius IV, the Council of Basel and the Secular and Ecclesiastical Authorities in the Empire: The Conflict Over Supreme Authority and Power in the Church |publisher=BRILL |page=163 |isbn=90-04-05240-2 }}
  • January 17– The Battle of Hällaskogen is fought in Sweden as rebels from the cities of Arboga, Köping, and Örebro, led by Erik Puke, defeat the troops sent by King Karl VIII. Puke is captured a few weeks later and beheaded on February 13.Harrison, Dick, Karl Knutsson - en biografi (Lund: Historiska media, 2002) {{ISBN|91-89442-58-X}}
  • January 21– The English Parliament, summoned in the name of King Henry VI on October 29, assembles at Westminster. The House of Commons elects the ailing John Tyrrell as its Speaker.
  • February 13– In France, English troops led by the Earl of Shrewsbury capture the town of Pontoise, less than {{convert|18|mi}} from Paris, and threaten the royal capital before being forced to abandon their position.{{cite DNB |last=Tait |first=J. |display=Talbot, John, first Earl of Shrewsbury (1388?–1453) |volume=55 |wstitle=Talbot, John (1388?–1453) |author-link=James Tait (historian) }}
  • February 21– King James I of Scotland is assassinated in an attempted coup d'état led by his uncle and former ally, Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl. The night before, the King and his wife, Catherine Douglas had stopped at Blackfriars monastery in Perth. Queen Catherine is injured while barring the door with her arm in order to allow the King to escape, and King James is found in the early hours of the morning and stabbed to death while trying to escape.{{citation |last=Brown |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Brown (historian) |title=James I. |publisher=Tuckwell Press |year=1994 |location=East Linton, Scotland |pages=187–188 |isbn=978-1-86232-105-2}}
  • March 11– The supernova Nova Scorpii AD 1437 is first observed, and is seen by Korean astronomers at Seoul. The supernova is visible until March 25.{{Cite web |first=Marina |last=Koren | url=https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/a-cosmic-whodunit/538482/?single_page=true |title = Solving a 600-Year-Old Cosmic Mystery|website = The Atlantic|date = August 30, 2017}}"Proper-motion age dating of the progeny of Nova Scorpii AD 1437", by Michael Shara, Richard Stephenson, and Mike Bode, in Nature (2017) pp.558–560 (pmid=PMID 28858302 bibcode=2017Natur.548..558S arxiv=1704.00086 s2cid=205259426
  • March 24– In Italy, Tomaso di Campofregoso, the Doge of the Republic of Genoa is forced to step down in favor of his brother, Battista di Campofregoso, however, changes his mind later in the day and Tomaso is re-installed as the doge.
  • March 25 – In a ceremony in Holyrood Abbey, six-year old Prince James is crowned as James II of Scotland by Pope Eugene IV. [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Historical_Dictionary_of_the_British_Mon/oeDwEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=coronation+James+II+of+Scotland+March+1437&pg=PA582&printsec=frontcover "James II of Scotland"], in Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy, by Kenneth J. Panton (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023) p.582 For the security of the crown, the capital of Scotland is moved from Dunfermline to Edinburgh.
  • March 26 – In Scotland, Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl, at one time the heir presumptive to the Scottish throne until the birth of James II, is brutally executed for the assassination of King James I. A red hot iron crown placed upon his head, after which he is cut into pieces while still alive and his heart was taken out, after which his body is thrown into a fire.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VoJnKgmUH54C|title=Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c.|chapter=Scotland|volume=20|year=1816|location=Edinburgh|publisher=John Brown, Anchor Close}}
  • March 27 – The regents for King Henry VI give royal assent to the legislation passed by the English Parliament, including the Marshalsea Act; the Exportation of Corn Act (excusing licensing fees of small amounts of grain, at less than 6 shillings, 8 pence for wheat or 3 shillings for barley); and the Guilds and Fraternities Act.{{cite book |title=Chronological Table of the Statutes: Covering the Period from 1235 to the End of 1971 |publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office |location=London |date=1972 |url={{GBurl|lUMIAAAAMAAJ|page=32}} |pages=32 |isbn=978-0-11-840096-1 |via=Google Books}}

= April–June =

  • April 2 – A bubonic plague epidemic strikes the independent city of Ragusa (now Dubrovnik in Croatia) capital of the Republic of Ragusa, and a group of 10 patricians reject the chance to flee, staying to govern the city. Within 15 days, nine of the ten are dead, and only Marin Simunov Rastic survives. The progress of the plague, which lasts for more than two months, is chronicled by an Italian-born resident, Opis Diversis.Zlata Blazina Tomic and Vesna Blazina, Expelling the Plague: The Health Office and the Implementation of Quarantine in Dubrovnik, 1377-1533 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015) pp.120-121 {{ISBN|9780773597129}}
  • April 23 – Malmö in Denmark (now Sweden) receives its current coat of arms.
  • April 23 – Pope Eugene IV issues the papal bull Dominatur Dominus to further safeguard the rights of the Guanches, the natives of the Portuguese-controlled Canary Islands.{{cite book |last=Castañeda Delgado |first=Paulino |title=La Teocracia Pontifical en las controversias sobre el Nuevo Mundo |publisher=Universidad Autónoma de México |year=1996 |chapter=La Santa Sede ante las empresas marítimas ibéricas |chapter-url=http://www.bibliojuridica.org/libros/2/725/14.pdf |isbn=978-9683651532 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927135626/http://www.bibliojuridica.org/libros/2/725/14.pdf |archive-date=27 September 2011 }}
  • May 1 – In Bohemia, the Sion Castle near Kutná Hora in what is now the Czech Republic is besieged by royal forces sent by the Emperor Zikmund Lucemburský and commanded by his Hofmeister, Hynce Ptáček of Pirkštejn. The siege, defended by the Taborite Hussite Jan Roháč of Dubá, lasts for four months before succeeding.Ze starých letopisů českých ("From the Old Czech Chronicles") (Svoboda Press, 1980) p.125
  • May 18 – (Full moon of Nayon 799 M.E.) In Burma, King Mohnyin Thado of Ava announces that, effective March 30, 1438, the year will be recalibrated after 799 M.E. to will become 2 M.E., as part of the recommendations of his astrologers.{{cite book|last=Kala|first=U|author-link=U Kala|title=Maha Yazawin|publisher=Ya-Pyei Publishing|location=Yangon|orig-year=1724|year=2006|page=70| edition=4th printing|language=Burmese|volume=1–3}}
  • May 21 – During a visit by Phillip III of Burgundy, who still controls parts of France while his war against King Charles VI continues, rebels in the city of Bruges take over and lynch his representative, Marshal Jean de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, while Philip himself narrowly escapes capture.{{cite book |language=fr|first=Paul et A.-M.|last=Bonenfant|title=Philippe le Bon: sa politique, son action (Philip the Good: his policy, his action)|publisher=De Boeck Université|year=1996|page=476}}
  • June 6 – A peasant army gathers at Babolna during the Transylvanian peasant revolt against King Sigismund of Hungary and defeat the Hungarian Governor, Ladislaus Csaki."Transylvanian peasant revolt", in Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8,500 Battles from Antiquity Through the Twenty-first Century, ed. by Tony Jacques (Greenwood Press, 2006) p.90
  • June 24 – On the feast day of St. John the Baptist, the plague in Ragusa is declared at an end.

= July–September =

  • July 6– The Transylvanian peasant revolt comes to an end with a formal treaty signed at the monastery of Cluj-Manastur, reducing the tithe to be paid to their employers, and abolishing the tax requiring surrendering one-ninth of each individual's production of wine and grain, and confirming the right of peasants to move freely within Transylvania.Pal Engel, The Realm of St Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary, 895-1526 (I. B. Tauris, 2001) {{ISBN|9780857731739}}
  • August 22– Portugal's disastrous Tangier expedition to attack Morocco begins as Prince Henry the Navigator and more than 6,000 troops (3,000 knights, 2,000 infantry, 1,000 archers) sail from the port of Belém toward Africa and the Portuguese colony of Ceuta. They arrive at Ceuta five days later.Ignacio da Costa Quintella, Annaes da Marinha Portugueza, 2 vols (Lisbon: Academia Real das Sciencias, 1840) pp.87-95
  • September 20–
  • Led by Prince Henry the Navigator, a poorly-prepared Portuguese attempt to conquer the city of Tangier in the Marinid Sultanate in Morocco begins. Although the Portuguese have more than 6,000 troops, they reach the walled city and find that their scaling ladders are too short to reach the top, and their artillery is too weak to damage the walls.
  • The siege of the Sion Castle in Bohemia by the armies of the Emperor Zikmund Lucemburský is successful.
  • September 30– A Moroccan relief force of at least 10,000 cavalry and 90,000 foot soldiers arrives at Tangier to halt Portugal's assault on Tangier.

= October–December =

  • October 5 – The Portuguese, reinforced with better equipment and having routed the Moroccans two days earlier, make a second assault on Tangier and fail.
  • October 9 – A counterattack on the Portuguese troops' camp, with additional troops led by the Moroccan grand vizier, Abu Zakariya Yahya al-Wattasi, forces the Portuguese to flee to their ships but King Henry's son, Prince Ferdinand, is taken as a prisoner of war.
  • October 15 – Prince Henry the Navigator (Henrique, o Navegador), brother of King Duarte of Portugal, agrees on behalf Portugal to cede its North African colony of Ceuta back to Morocco in return for being allowed to withdraw all of his troops, including those taken prisoner.
  • October 19 – After negotiating a surrender and exchanging prisoners of war with the Moroccans, the Portuguese troops leave Tangier and sail away from Morocco.
  • November 1 – On All Saints Day, five weeks before his 16th birthday, King Henry VI of England has a second coronation ceremony at Merton Priory, near London.{{Cite web |url=http://www.mertonpriory.org/history/2.html|title=Henry VI crowned at Merton |last=Saxby |first=David |date=March 18, 2018 |website=Merton Priory |access-date=March 18, 2018}} Henry had previously been crowned in 1429 at Westminster at the age of seven.
  • November 12 – King Charles VII of France and his son Prince Louis ride into Paris for the first time in 17 years after the royal family had fled from the invasion by the Duke of Burgundy in 1420.{{Cite book |last=Kendall |first=Paul Murray |title=Louis XI: The Universal Spider |publisher=W.W. Norton & Company Inc. |date=1971 |page=46 |isbn=978-1-8421-2411-6 |author-link=Paul Murray Kendall}}
  • November 13 – England's Privy Council votes to confirm the independent authority of King Henry.{{Cite book |last=Lingard |first=John |title=A History of England |date=1854 |publisher=Phillips, Sampson and Company |edition=new |volume=5 |location=Boston |page=107 |hdl=2027/miun.aba0086.0005.001 |author-link=John Lingard}}
  • December 6 – King Henry VI reaches the age of majority on his 16th birthday and is deemed ready to rule the Kingdom of England in his own right.
  • December 9 – Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, dies, and is succeeded by Frederick III.

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