1677

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Year '1677'' ('MDCLXXVII') was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1677

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1677

January - June

★ April 11 - At the Battle of Cassel, Philippe I of Orléans defeats William of Orange.

★ May 29 - Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Indians.

★ May 31 - Danish ships clash with Swedish ships under Niels Juel between Fehmarn and Warnemünde - Danish defeat the Swedish and capture number of ships.

July - December

★ July 14 - Battle of Landskrona, Sweden.

★ November 4 - The future Mary II of England marries William of Orange.

★ November 16 - French troops occupy Freiburg.

Undated

★ First performance of Racine's tragedy, ''Phèdre''.

★ English Statute of frauds is passed into law.

★ Elias Ashmole gifts the collection that begins the Ashmolean Museum to Oxford University.

★ Francis Aungier is made the first Earl of Longford.

★ Michel le Tellier becomes chancellor of France.

★ Second London Baptist Confession written, published in 1689.

★ Charles II of England makes Henry Purcell court musician.

★ Jules Hardouin-Mansart begins ''la place Vendôme'' in Paris (completed in 1698).

★ Antoni van Leeuwenhoek observes spermatozoa under the microscope.

★ The Swedes defeat the Danes, at Rostock and at Landström.

★ Population of Paris first exceeds 500,000.

★ Ice cream becomes popular in Paris. [1]

Births

★ February 3 - Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect ( died 1723)

★ February 4 - Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (died 1731)

★ February 8 - Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (died 1756)

★ August 27 - Otto Ferdinand Graf von Abensperg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (died 1748)

★ September 17 - Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor (died 1761)

★ October 20 - Stanisław Leszczyński (died 1766)

★ ''date unknown''

★ William Dummer, acting Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (died 1761)
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Deaths

★ February 21 - Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (born 1632)

★ March 28 - Václav Hollar, Czech-born actor (born 1607)

★ May 4 - Isaac Barrow, English mathematician (born 1630)

★ May 20 - George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (born 1612)

★ July 30 - Fabian von Fersen, Swedish soldier (born 1626)

★ August - Matthew Locke (composer), English composer (born 1621)

★ September 11 - James Harrington, English political philosopher (born 1611)

★ November 9 - Aernout van der Neer, Dutch painter (born 1603)

★ ''date unknown'' - Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury (born 1598)
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