1577

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1540s 1550s 1560s – 1570s – 1580s 1590s 1600s
Years:	1574 1575 1576 – 1577 – 1578 1579 1580

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

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January 9 – The second 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.
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 Treaty of Bergerac is signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots.
December 13 – Francis Drake leaves Plymouth, England, aboard the Pelican with four other ships and 164 men on an expedition against the Spanish along the Pacific coast of the Americas which will become a circumnavigation.

Supposed massacre of the MacDonald inhabitants of the Scottish island of Eigg by the Clan MacLeod.
The church in San Pedro de Atacama is built in the Atacama Desert in Chile .

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
- Christoph Besold, German jurist (d. 1638)
- 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)
- Gerhard Johann Vossius, German classical scholar and theologian (d. 1649)

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