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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).

Events of 1677

January 1 - Racine's tragedy Phèdre is first performed.
April 11 - Battle of Cassel: Philippe I of Orléans defeats William of Orange.
May 29 - The 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; the Danish defeat the Swedish and capture a number of ships.

The Statute of frauds is passed into English 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.
The Second London Baptist Confession is 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.
The population of Paris first exceeds 500,000.
Ice cream becomes popular in Paris.
The John Roan School is established.

February 3 - Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (d. 1723)
February 4 - Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (d. 1731)
February 8 - Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (d. 1756)
August 27 - Otto Ferdinand von Abensperg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1748)
September 17 - Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor (d. 1761)
October 20 - Stanis?aw Leszczy?ski (d. 1766)
date unknown
William Dummer, acting Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (d. 1761)

See also Category: 1677 births.

See also Category: 1677 deaths.

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