1677

This article is about the year 1677.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1640s  1650s  1660s  – 1670s –  1680s  1690s  1700s
Years:	1674 1675 1676 – 1677 – 1678 1679 1680

1677 by topic:

Arts and Science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1677 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1677 MDCLXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2430
Armenian calendar	1126 ԹՎ ՌՃԻԶ
Assyrian calendar	6427
Bengali calendar	1084
Berber calendar	2627
English Regnal year	28 Cha. 2 – 29 Cha. 2
Buddhist calendar	2221
Burmese calendar	1039
Byzantine calendar	7185–7186
Chinese calendar	丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 4373 or 4313     — to — 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 4374 or 4314
Coptic calendar	1393–1394
Discordian calendar	2843
Ethiopian calendar	1669–1670
Hebrew calendar	5437–5438
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1733–1734
- Shaka Samvat	1599–1600
- Kali Yuga	4778–4779
Holocene calendar	11677
Igbo calendar	677–678
Iranian calendar	1055–1056
Islamic calendar	1087–1088
Japanese calendar	Enpō 5 (延宝５年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	4010
Minguo calendar	235 before ROC 民前235年
Thai solar calendar	2219–2220

1677 (MDCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (dominical letter C) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday (dominical letter G) of the Julian calendar, the 1677th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 677th year of the 2nd millennium, the 77th year of the 17th century, and the 8th year of the 1670s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1677 is 10 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

January–June

• January 1 – Jean Racine's tragedy Phèdre is first performed.
• January 21 – First medical publication in America (Pamphlet on smallpox), Boston.
• April 11 – Battle of Cassel: Philippe I, Duke of Orléans defeats William of Orange.
• April 16 – The Statute of Frauds is passed into English law.
• April 6 – Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor visits the University of Innsbruck.
• May 29 – The Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Indians.
• May 31 – Battle of Møn: During the Scanian War, Danish ships clash with Swedish ships under Niels Juel between Fehmarn and Warnemünde; the Danish defeat the Swedish and capture a number of ships.
• June 25–June 26 – Siege of Malmö.

July–December

• July 14 – Battle of Landskrona: Sweden defeats the Danes.
• October 29 – Michel le Tellier becomes chancellor of France.
• November 4 – The future Mary II of England marries William of Orange.
• November 16 – French troops occupy Freiburg.

Date unknown

• The Second London Baptist Confession of Faith is written (published in 1689).
• Spinoza's Ethics (Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata) is published as part of his Opera Posthuma in Amsterdam.
• Elias Ashmole gifts the collection that begins the Ashmolean Museum to the University of Oxford in England.
• Charles II of England makes Henry Purcell court musician.
• Jules Hardouin Mansart begins la place Vendôme in Paris (completed in 1698).
• Francis Aungier, 3rd Baron Aungier of Longford, is created 1st Earl of Longford in the Peerage of Ireland.
• The John Roan School is established in Greenwich, London.
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz gives a complete solution to the tangent problem.
• Antonie van Leeuwenhoek observes spermatozoa under the microscope.
• End of the use of male impotence as a factor in French divorce proceedings.
• Ice cream becomes popular in Paris.
• The population of Paris first exceeds 500,000.

Births

• 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)
• May 4 – Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, youngest daughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan, wife of Philippe d'Orléans, le Régent (d.1749)
• 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 – Stanisław Leszczyński (d. 1766)
• date unknown
  • William Dummer, acting Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (d. 1761)
  • Li Ching-Yuen, Chinese herbalist, martial artist and tactical advisor (d.1933) (claimed)

Deaths

• February 21 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (b. 1632)
• March 28 – Václav Hollar, Czech-born actor (b. 1607)
• May 4 – Isaac Barrow, English mathematician (b. 1630)
• May 20 – George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (b. 1612)
• July 30 – Fabian von Fersen, Swedish soldier (b. 1626)
• August – Matthew Locke (composer), English composer (b. 1621)
• August – Joseph Pardo, English hazzan (b. c. 1624)
• September 11 – James Harrington, English political philosopher (b. 1611)
• November 9 – Aernout van der Neer, Dutch painter (b. 1603)
• date unknown – Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1598)