1577

Years: 1574 1575 1576 - 1577 - 1578 1579 1580
Decades: 1540s 1550s 1560s - 1570s - 1580s 1590s 1600s
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

March 17 - formation of the Cathay Company to send Martin Frobisher back to the New World for more gold.
May 28 - Publication of the Bergen Book, better known as the Solid Declaration of the Formula of Concord, one of the Lutheran confessional writings. 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 - Peace of Bergerac 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.
The church in San Pedro in the Atacama Desert in Chile was built.
The Union of Brussels is formed. First without the protestant counties of Holland and Zeeland, which was accepted by king Philip II of Spain. Later with the protestants, which meant open rebellion of the whole of the Netherlands.

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

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