Editing 1437 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 15]]&ndash; The [[Compacts of Basel]] are ratified by the [[Council of Florence|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 under both kinds|Communion]] during the [[Eucharist]] before [[Easter]] without declaring the same to be [[heresy]], but stops short of allowing the Communion wafer.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>
* [[January 17]]&ndash; The [[Battle of Hällaskogen]] is fought in Sweden as rebels from the cities of [[Arboga]], [[Köping, Sweden|Köping]], and [[Örebro]], led by [[:sv:Erik Puke|Erik Puke]], defeat the troops sent by [[Charles VIII of Sweden|King Karl VIII]]. Puke is captured a few weeks later and beheaded on February 13.<ref>Harrison, Dick, ''Karl Knutsson - en biografi'' (Lund: Historiska media, 2002) {{ISBN|91-89442-58-X}}</ref>
* [[January 21]]&ndash; 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 (died 1437)|John Tyrrell]] as its Speaker.
* [[February 13]]&ndash; In France, English troops led by the  [[John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury|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.<ref>{{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) }}</ref>
* [[February 21]]&ndash; [[James I of Scotland|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, Perth|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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
* [[March 11]]&ndash; The supernova Nova Scorpii AD 1437 is first observed, and is seen by Korean astronomers at [[Seoul]]. The supernova is visible until March 25.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>"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</ref>
* [[March 24]]&ndash; In Italy, [[Tomaso di Campofregoso]], the [[Doge of Genoa|Doge]] of the [[Republic of Genoa]] is forced to step down in favor of his brother, [[:it:Battista Fregoso (1380-1442)|Battista di Campofregoso]], however, changes his mind later in the day and Tomaso is re-installed as the doge.
* [[March 25]] &ndash; In a ceremony in [[Holyrood Abbey]], six-year old Prince James is crowned as [[James II of Scotland]] by [[Pope Eugene IV]]. <ref>[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</ref> For the security of the crown, the capital of [[Kingdom of Scotland|Scotland]] is moved from [[Dunfermline]] to [[Edinburgh]].
* [[March 26]] &ndash; 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
* [[March 27]] &ndash; The regents for King Henry VI give [[royal assent]] to the legislation passed by the English Parliament, including the [[Marshalsea Act 1436|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.<ref>{{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]]}}</ref>