1677

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century

Decades: 1620s 1630s 1640s 1650s 1660s - 1670s - 1680s 1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s

Years: 1672 1673 1674 1675 1676 - 1677 - 1678 1679 1680 1681 1682

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• First performance of Racine's tragedy, Phèdre
• Sarah Churchill marries John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
• Battle of Cassel, Philippe I of Orleans defeats William of Orange
• Mary II of England marries William of Orange
• English Statute of frauds is passed into law
• Battle of Landskrona
• 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
• Sir John Chardin returns to Europe from his travels in Persia
• Second London Baptist Confession written, was be published in 1689
• Charles II of England makes Henry Purcell court musician.
• War between Russia and Turkey.
• 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, and ice cream becomes popular.

Births

• Stanislaus I of Poland

Deaths

• Isaac Barrow, English mathematician
• Fabian von Fersen, Swedish soldier
• Matthew Locke, composer, in August
• Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury
• Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher
• Duke William Louis of Württemberg
• Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton
• Mathieu Le Nain, French painter\n