1677

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Decades:	1640s 1650s 1660s - 1670s - 1680s 1690s 1700s
Years:	1674 1675 1676 - 1677 - 1678 1679 1680

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[edit] Events of 1677

January 1 - First performance of Racine's tragedy, Phèdre.
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.

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

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)

See also Category: 1677 births.