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| 1637 |
| | | The first public opera house, the Teatro San Cassiano, opens in Venice | |
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| 1637 |
| | | Pierre Corneille's play Le Cid, popular with Paris audiences, hinges on the conflict between duty and love | |
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| 1637 |
| | | Charles I and his archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, attempt to impose the full Anglican hierarchy on presbyterian Scotland | |
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| 1637 |
| | | John Milton's Lycidas is published in memory of a Cambridge friend, Edward King | |
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| 1637 |
| | | War between English colonists and Pequot Indians brings disaster to the Pequots but safeguards the settlement of Connecticut | |
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| 1638 |
| | | The French build a trading station on the estuary of the Senegal river in west Africa | |
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| 1638 |
| | | A National Covenant, first signed in an Edinburgh churchyard, commits the Covenanters to oppose Charles I's reforms of the Church of Scotland | |
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| 1638 |
| | | Galileo's Discorsi, published in Leiden, lays the groundwork for mathematical physics | |
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| 1638 |
| | | Riots erupt in Edinburgh, in response to the attempt by Charles I and Laud to impose a hierarchy of Anglican bishops | |
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| 1639 |
| | | Richard Fairbanks, given responsibility for delivering mail in Massachusetts, is allowed to charge a penny per letter | |
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