This page relates to the year 1677 Gregorian Calendrier.
Events
America
Africa
- November 1st: The vice-admiral of Estrées seizes the island of Gorée, with the Senegal, on behalf of king de France.
Asia
- Galdan, prince of the Dzoungars, dominates the Bassin of Tarim (fine in 1753) by imposing Moslem theocracy Khodja (1678 - 1680).
- Shivâjî Bhonsla is combined with Golkonda. It makes a raid on the areas of Madras and Mysore.
Europe
- Guerre enters the Russia and the Ottoman Empire.
- During the winter, Sarah Churchill wife John Churchill, first duke of Marlborough.
- Plague in Spain (1677 - 1684) causing 250 000 dead.
Religion and Philosophy
- has Salonique, a former medical student of Madrid, the Marrane Abraham Miguel Cardoso proclaims Messie in the quasi-general indifference.
- Publication of Ethics of Baruch Spinoza.
- Publication of Of intellectus emendatione ( Of the reform of the understanding ) of Spinoza.
Art & culture
- January 1st: First representation of Phèdre of Jean Root.
- Speech of the knight of Mother.
- Consideration in favor of the French language of Michel de Marolles.
- Rhetoric of Bernard Lamy.
- Memories of the Cardinal of Retz, (réd.).
- Thomas Corneille creates the Nouveau gallant Mercury (Fontenelle, 20 years old, collaborates in the review of his/her uncle).
- Jean Root and Boileau becomes historiographers of the king Louis XIV.
See also: 1677 with the theater
Science & technology
Economy & company
- Paris exceeds 500 000 inhabitants.
Births in 1677
Death in 1677
- Mathieu the Dwarf French painter, with Paris.
- Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Small Pierre, French physicist (Montlucon, 1594 or 1598, Lagny out of the Marne 1677).
- Tabrizi, Persan poet born in 1603.
Easter Day
Be-X-old: 1677
Map-bms: 1677
Simple: 1677