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

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

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

* 1677 – Samuel Gorton, English activist and writer ( b. 1593 )

* 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 )

* April 18 – Jacques Cassini, French astronomer ( b. 1677 )

* December 26 – François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel, French dramatist and satirist ( 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.

* 1676 – 1677 destroyed by French

New England Captives Carried to Canada: Between 1677 and 1760 During the French and Indian Wars, Heritage Books, 1989 ( reprint 1925 ).

* Jean Racine, Phèdre ( 1677 ), a French play.

** Jacques Cassini ( 1677 – 1756 ), French astronomer, son of Giovanni Domenico

* Hennepin Road – Road within Grandyle Village named after a French explorer, Louis Hennepin, who observed and described Niagara Falls in 1677.

Cayenne ( French Guiana ) was also briefly controlled by the Dutch between 1660 and 1664, and again between 1676 and 1677.

In 1677 it was raided by French pirates, who burnt down its City Hall, thus destroying many very important documents about the early settlement of Venezuela.

The following year, a third Battle of Cassel took place just west of the town on 11 April 1677 when a French army under François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg and Philippe I of Orléans defeated Dutch forces commanded by William III of Orange.

In 1677 Betterton produced two adaptations from the French by Otway, Titus and Berenice ( from Racine's Bérénice ), and the Cheats of Scapin ( from Molière's Fourberies de Scapin ).

** Jacques Cassini, French astronomer ( born 1677 )

Jacques Cassini ( 18 February 1677 – 16 April 1756 ) was a French astronomer, son of the famous Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini.

* Mathieu Le Nain ( French, 1607 – 1677 )

In 1677, the armies of Louis XIV of France ( this time led by Vauban ) captured the city and in 1678 the Treaty of Nijmegen gave the French control of Valenciennes ( 1678 ) and the surrounding southern part of Hainault, roughly cutting the former county in half.

After a brief visit to France, where his collection of ancient coins attracted some attention, Galland returned to the Levant in 1677 and in 1679 he undertook a third voyage, being commissioned by the French East India Company to collect for the cabinet of Colbert.

Guillaume Coustou the Elder ( November 29, 1677, Lyon-February 22, 1746, Paris ) was a French sculptor and academician.

In spite of the extensive destruction Haguenau suffered during the many wars experienced by Alsace, especially the Thirty Years War, the French conquest in 1677 and World War II, she still keeps monuments from 9 centuries, even if nothing is left of arguably the most prestigious of them, Frederick I Barbarossa's imperial palace ( Kaiserpfalz ).

After the French gained control in 1677, the island remained continuously French until 1960.

The Thirty Years ' War reduced the city's population significantly and during the Dutch War in 1677 it was burned to the ground by French troops under the leadership of Marshall de Créquy.

In the autumn of 1677 2, 000 French, Polish and Tatar soldiers arrived in Upper Hungary.