1437

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.

 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