* 1677 – Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal ( d. 1748 )

* 1619 – Barbara Strozzi, Italian singer and composer ( d. 1677 )

* 1677 – The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.

New England suffered smallpox epidemics in 1677, 1689 – 90, and 1702.

His parents were Didier Diderot ( 1675 – 1759 ) a cutler, maître coutelier and his wife Angélique Vigneron ( 1677 – 1748 ).

* Eliphalet Adams, ( 1677 – 1753 ), clergyman and missionary to the Native Americans

* 1612 – George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman ( d. 1677 )

* 1677 – Nicola Fago, Italian Baroque composer and teacher ( d. 1745 )

* 1677 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French composer ( d. 1745 )

The second Khoikoi-Dutch war ( 1673 – 1677 ) was a cattle raid.

* 1677 – Antonio Maria Bononcini, Italian cellist and composer ( d. 1726 )

* 1647 – Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg ( d. 1677 )

* 1677 – Scanian War: Denmark – Norway captures the harbor town of Marstrand from Sweden.

Latin was the language of the ancient Romans, but it was also the lingua franca of Europe throughout the middle ages, so Latin literature includes not only Roman authors like Cicero, Vergil, Ovid and Lucretius, but also includes European writers after the fall of the Empire from religious writers like St. Augustine ( 354 – 430 AD ), to secular writers like Francis Bacon ( 1561-1626 ) and Spinoza ( 1632 – 1677 ).

Latin continued to be used as a lingua franca throughout Europe, with some of the latest great works in Latin being composed by Francis Bacon ( 1561-1626 ) and Spinoza ( 1632 – 1677 ).

* 1677 – Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Natives.

* 1632 – Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher ( d. 1677 )

* 1677 – The future Mary II of England marries William, Prince of Orange.

Various European powers – Portugal, the Netherlands, and England – competed for trade in the area from the 15th century onward, until in 1677, France ended up in possession of what had become a minor slave trade departure point — the infamous island of Gorée next to modern Dakar.

* 1677 – Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, Italian composer ( d. 1754 )

His father's ancestor, Samuel Taylor, settled in Burlington, New Jersey, in 1677.

of London ( 1658 -), Samuel Crellius ( 1660 – 1747 ) and Paweł Crell-Spinowski ( 1677 -), as well as his great-grandsons in Georgia, United States, were all proponents of Socinian views.

Bridget Rolle had married Francis Trefusis of Trefusis in Cornwall, and had issue Samuel Trefusis ( 1677 – 1724 ), whose great-grandson was the 17th Baron Clinton.

In the description of the Parish of Heidesheim drawn up sometime between 1667 and 1677 in Johann Sebastian Severus ’ s Dioecesis Moguntina, it says :“ On the edge of the village towards the Rhine one beholds farther away the castle house at the Wintereck which in the year 1626 Samuel Beck, chief cellarmaster at Mainz, acquired for himself and his family along with the forest, meadows, fields and cereal tributes for 800 Gulden and today has outfitted with an appealing building and fruit trees.

Samuel Pepys, then Secretary to the Admiralty, revised the structure in 1677 and laid it down as a " solemn, universal and unalterable " classification.

Samuel Gorton ( 1593 – 1677 ), was an early settler and civic leader of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and President of the towns of Providence and Warwick for one term.

The plot was borrowed from Josephus and the romance of ‘ Cleopatra .’ In 1678 appeared ‘ The Siege of Babylon, by Samuel Pordage of Lincoln's Inn, Esq., author of the tragedy of “ Herod and Mariamne .”’ This play had been licensed by Roger L ' Estrange on 2 November 1677, and acted at the Duke's Theatre not long after the production at the Theatre Royal of Nathaniel Lee's ‘ Rival Queens ;’ and Statira and Roxana, the ‘ rival queens ,’ were principal characters in Pordage's rhymed tragedy.

* Samuel Fairclough ( 1594 – 1677 ), English nonconformist divine

After last serving in a public capacity in 1670, when he was 78 years old, Gorton continued to live in Warwick until his death in 1677.

Though Gorton did not leave a will, several deeds to his heirs on 27 November 1677 distributed his properties, and in one of these instruments he called himself " professor of the mysteries of Christ.

Omega Centauri was determined to be nonstellar in 1677 by the English astronomer Edmond Halley, though it was visible as a star to the ancients.

* February 22 – George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman ( d. 1677 )

* January 4 – Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor ( b. 1677 )

The island was to switch hands between the Portuguese and Dutch several more times before falling to the English under Admiral Robert Holmes on January 23, 1664, and finally to the French in 1677.

After his marriage in November 1677, William became a possible candidate for the English throne if his father-in-law ( and uncle ) James were excluded because of his Catholicism.

* Thomas Howard, 5th Duke of Norfolk ( 1627 – 1677 ), English nobleman

First settled by English colonists in 1673, Deerfield was incorporated in 1677.

Burlington was founded on part of that land by English settlers ( primarily Quakers ) in 1677, and served as the capital of the province until 1702, when West Jersey and East Jersey were combined into a singe Crown Colony.

* Constance Hopkins ( 1607 – 1677 ), English colonist and Mayflower passenger

These included the English anatomist Francis Glisson ( 1597 – 1677 ) and the Italian doctor Marcello Malpighi ( 1628 – 1694 ).

After this his most important works were a Lexicon heptaglotton ( 1669 ) and English commentaries on Micah ( 1677 ), Malachi ( 1677 ), Hosea ( 1685 ) and Joel ( 1691 ).

* Two plays on the same subject of King Edgar are acted in 1677: Edward Ravenscroft's tragicomedy King Edgar and Alfreda, and Thomas Rymer's Edgar, or the English Monarch.

He had a high reputation as a Grecian, a Latinist and a philologist, and he brought out with the collaboration of others his an edition of St Cyprian in 1682, an English translation of The Unity of the Church in 1681, editions of Nemesius of Emesa ( 1671 ), of Aratus and of Eratosthenes ( 1672 ), Theocritus ( 1676 ), Alcinous on Plato ( 1677 ), St Clement's Epistles to the Corinthians ( 1677 ), Athenagoras ( 1682 ), Clemens Alexandrinus ( 1683 ), Theophilus of Antioch ( 1684 ), Grammatica rationis sive institutiones logicae ( 1673 and 1685 ), and a critical edition of the New Testament in 1675.

His objective was to disrupt trade between the English at Albany and the Iroquois confederation, to which the Seneca belonged, and to break the Covenant Chain, a peace Andros had negotiated in 1677 while he was governor of New York.

In 1677 he got himself appointed as a chaplain of the ship Adventurer in the English navy.

James Harrington ( or Harington ) ( 3 January 1611 – 11 September 1677 ) was an English political theorist of classical republicanism, best known for his controversial work, The Commonwealth of Oceana ( 1656 ).

To supplement his ' new large Map of England ' from 1677, the English cartographer John Adams compiled the extensive gazetteer " Index Villaris " in 1680 that had some 24, 000 places listed with geographical coordinates coinciding with the map.

* Isaac Barrow ( 1630 – 1677 ), English divine, scholar and mathematician

Thomas Howard, 5th Duke of Norfolk ( 9 March 1627 – 13 December 1677 ) was an English noble.

Stephen Hales, FRS, DD ( 17 September 1677 – 4 January 1761 ) was an English clergyman who made major contributions to a range of scientific fields including botany, pneumatic chemistry and physiology.

George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol ( 22 February 1612 – 20 May 1677 ) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 until 1641 when he was raised to the House of Lords.