1577

Year 1577 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1577

* March 17 - The Cathay Company is formed to send Martin Frobisher back to the New World for more gold.
* May 28 - The "Bergen Book", better known as the "Solid Declaration" of the Formula of Concord, one of the Lutheran confessional writings, is published. The earlier version, known as the "Torgau Book" (1576), had been condensed into an "Epitome"; both documents are part of the 1580 Book of Concord.
* September 17 - The Peace of Bergerac is signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots.
* December 13 - Sir Francis Drake sets out from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage.

Undated

* The church in San Pedro is built in the Atacama Desert in Chile .
* The Union of Brussels is formed, first without the Protestant counties of Holland and Zeeland (which is accepted by king Philip II of Spain), later with the Protestants, which means open rebellion of the whole of the Netherlands.
* Sir Francis Drake sails through the Strait of Magellan.

Births

* January 12 - Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (d. 1644)
* February 6 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman who conspired to kill her father (d. 1599)
* February 8 - Robert Burton, English scholar (d. 1640)
* April 12 - King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway (d. 1648)
* April 16 - Elisabeth of Nassau, regent of Sedan (d. 1642)
* June 12 - Paul Guldin, Swiss Jesuit mathematician (d. 1643)
* June 28 - Peter Paul Rubens, German painter (d. 1640)
* July 9 - Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English governor of Virginia (d. 1618)
* October 17 - Cristofano Allori, Italian portrait painter (d. 1621)
* November 10 - Jacob Cats, Dutch poet, jurist and politician (d. 1660)
* November 25 - Piet Pieterszoon Hein, Dutch naval officer (d. 1629)
*"date unknown"
**Giacomo Cavedone, Italian painter (d. 1660)
**William Noy, English jurist (d. 1634)
**Barnaby Potter, Bishop of Carlisle (d. 1642)
**Meletius Smotrytsky, Ruthenian religious activist and author, who developed Church Slavonic grammar (d. 1633)
**William Vaughan, Welsh writer and colonial investor (d. 1641)
**Gerhard Johann Vossius, German classical scholar and theologian (d. 1649)

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Deaths

* February 26 - King Eric XIV of Sweden (b. 1533)
* May 5 - Viglius, Dutch statesman (b. 1507)
* June 11 - King John III of Portugal (b. 1502)
* August 12 - Thomas Smith, English scholar and diplomat (b. 1513)
* September 7 - Maria of Portugal (b. 1538)
* October 7 - George Gascoigne, English poet (b. c. 1525)
* November 19 - Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
* November 29 - Cuthbert Mayne, English saint (b. 1543)
* December 18 - Anna of Saxony, second wife of William the Silent
*"date unknown"
**Richard Aertsz, Dutch painter (b. 1482)
**Adam of Bodenstein, Swiss alchemist and physician (b. 1528)
**Blaise de Lasseran-Massencôme, seigneur de Montluc, Marshal of France (b. 1502)

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