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Everything about 1677 totally explainedYear 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 - June
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
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.
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.
john roan school established
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 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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