It is believed to be the location of an early settlement in the Savannah area ( prior to General Oglethrope's land grant in 1733 ) founded by three brothers, William, James, and Robert Montgomery under a land grant of 1677.

In 1675 the first Governor General of the West Indies, Jean-Charles de Baas-Castelmore, arrived in Martinique and served until 1677.

Baron Fabian von Fersen ( February 7, 1626 – July 30, 1677 ) was a Swedish soldier and statesman, who received appointments Field Marshal, and then Governor General of the Scanian lands, which included the provinces of Skåne, Halland and Blekinge in 1676.

In July 1677 Gyldenløve captured the fortress at Marstrand and joined General Løvenhjelm, who marched into Bohuslen with the main Norwegian army and defeated an army of 8000 Swedes under General de la Gardie.

He was Stolnik of the Crown since 1664, General starost of Kraków since 1667, Deputy Chancellor the Crown since 1677 and Grand Chancellor of the Crown since 1678.

As Bacon's forces had destroyed the statehouse and all other buildings at Jamestown, the first General Assembly summoned after the rebellion was held in February, 1677, at Berkeley's residence, Green Spring Plantation.

In 1673, he became a barrister of the Inner Temple ; king's counsel and bencher in 1677 ; and in 1679, during the chancellorship of his father, was appointed Solicitor General, being returned to parliament for Oxford University, and in 1685 for Guildford.

The title " Attorney General " was used in colonial North Carolina as early as 1677, when George Durant was appointed by Governor John Jenkins.

In August 1677, Norwegian forces of 2000 men, led by General Reinhold von Hoven and General Christian Shultz also retook formerly Norwegian Jämtland.

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.

Child's advocacy, both by speech and by pen, under the pseudonym Philopatris, of the East India Company's claims to political power, as well as to its right of restricting competition to its trade, brought him to the notice of the shareholders, and he was appointed a Director in 1677, rising to Deputy-Governor and finally Governor.

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.

Sir Cornelius Wasterdyk Vermuyden ( Sint-Maartensdijk, 1595 – London, 11 October 1677 ) was a Dutch engineer who introduced Dutch reclamation methods to Britain, and made the first important attempts to drain The Fens of East Anglia.

In 1677, accounts of Thomas Lennard, the 1st Earl of Sussex, include an item which refers to £ 3 being paid to him when he went to a cricket match being played at " ye Dicker ", which was a common near Herstmonceux in East Sussex.

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

* New Walcheren ( 1628 – 1677 )

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

According to a 1677 bill of sale now in the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton, New Jersey, Thomas Lawrence, a New York baker, purchased thousands of acres of land from local Native Americans named Querameck, Kesyacs, Isarick, Metapis, Peckawan, and Turantecas.

On 18 March 1677 De Ruyter was given an elaborate state funeral when his body was buried in the Nieuwe Kerk ( New Church ) in Amsterdam.

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

* Quaker West New Jersey: Democracy in 1677

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.

In a council held at the Lenape village of Shackamaxon ( site of present-day Philadelphia ) in February and March 1677, all of the major parties met, but no final agreements were reached, and Andros ordered the Susquehannocks remaining with the Lenape to disperse to other parts of New York in April.

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.

Stephanus van Cortlandt ( May 7, 1643 – November 25, 1700 ) was the first native-born mayor of New York City, a position which he held from 1677 to 1678 and from 1686 to 1688.

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 New Utrecht Reformed Church was chartered.

The earliest recorded use of the term " synarchy " is attributed to Thomas Stackhouse ( 1677 – 1752 ), an English clergyman who used the word in his New History of the Holy Bible from the Beginning of the World to the Establishment of Christianity ( published in two folio volumes in 1737 ).

Around 1677, the Susquehannocks moved to New York and intermingled with their Iroquois relatives.

In 1677, however, New York ordered the Susquehannock to be expelled from the Delaware Valley.

He served on the colony's council of assistants ( a precursor to the idea of a governor's council ) almost every year from 1671 to 1686, and represented the colony in the New England Confederation from 1673 to 1677 and 1680 to 1686.

Also notable was the work of some Continental Rationalist philosophers, especially Baruch Spinoza's ( 1632 – 1677 ) On the Improvement of the Understanding ( 1662 ) and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's ( 1646 – 1716 ) New Essays on Human Understanding ( completed 1705, published 1765 ).

From 1677, he lived in the Vauxhall area of central London, where he made improvments to New Spring Gardens, the antecedent of Vauxhall Gardens.

A slightly more credible explanation is that the village was the first in the district where spinning was carried out using water power, but this theory can almost certainly be discredited by the fact that the earliest known reference to New Invention is in a document held at Shropshire Archives dated 1677 ( ref 2589 / D / 108 ), while machinery for carding and spinning wool was not invented until well into the 18th century.

Burlington, the capital of West Jersey, was established in 1677, and Camden was established in 1681.

He regretfully observed in 1666 that'all solemn musick was much laid aside, being esteemed too heavy and dull for the light heels and brains of this nimble and wanton age ,' and he therefore ventured to ' new string the harp of David ' by issuing fresh editions of his ' Skill of Music ,' with music for church service, in 1674, and, in 1677, ' The Whole Book of Psalms ' in which he gave for the first time the church tunes to the cantus part.

William and a tearful Mary were married in St. James's Palace by Bishop Henry Compton on 4 November 1677.

Grand Master of the naval war of Louis XIV, Admiral Jean Estrées seized Gorée on November 1, 1677.

Year 1677 ( MDCLXXVII ) was a common year starting on Friday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

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.

Charles relented, and Bishop Henry Compton married the couple on 4 November 1677.

For their ideas on derivatives, both Newton and Leibniz built on significant earlier work by mathematicians such as Isaac Barrow ( 1630 – 1677 ), René Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ), Christiaan Huygens ( 1629 – 1695 ), Blaise Pascal ( 1623 – 1662 ) and John Wallis ( 1616 – 1703 ).

He died later that same year, on July 9, 1677.

On his death in 1677 the manor was sold on again to the Lord High Treasurer, Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby.

Basset migrated to England in about 1677, introduced by a croupier called Morin, but never caught on outside Court circles on account of its costliness and the heavy risks it entailed on the players.

Cambrai henceforth belonged to the Holy Roman Empire, in an uncomfortable position on the border with France, until it was annexed by France eight centuries later after being captured by Louis XIV in 1677.

The city was taken on April 19, 1677.

* Webpage on the 1677 siege

W. Reader dates the first Godiva procession to 1677, but other sources date the first parade to 1678, and on that year a lad from the household of James Swinnerton enacted the role of Lady Godiva .</ br >

Carrabelle, Dog Island, and St. George Island served as points to stage raids on local ports as well as San Marcos de Apalache in 1677 and 1682.

250pxFrom 1677 to 1686, the " Slot Zeist " was built on or near the ruins of " Kasteel Zeist ", the original castle ( donjon ) of Rodgar van Zeist.

Stanisław I Leszczyński () (; ; ) ( October 20, 1677 – February 23, 1766 ) was King of Poland, Duke of Lorraine and a count of the Holy Roman Empire ( a rank bestowed by Emperor Frederick III on the Leszczyński family ).

As a consequence he opposed Parliament's plan in 1677 to appoint him to Lord High Admiral — on the basis that only the King should be allowed to propose such appointments — but noted that he was willing to become Admiral if the King wished him to do so.

The register of Lambeth degrees notes that in 1677, on taking his doctorate, Blow said that his birthplace was ‘ the faithful borough of Newark ’.

He died in Batavia ( now renamed Jakarta ) on the island of Java in 1677.