1577
EventsMarch 17 - formation of the Cathay Company to send Martin Frobisher back to the New World for more goldSeptember 17 - Peace of Bergerac signed between Henry III of France and the HuguenotsThe church in San Pedro in the Atacama Desert in Chile was built.
BirthsFebruary 6 - Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman who conspired to kill her father (d. 1599)April 12 - King Christian IV of Denmark and NorwayJune 12 - Habbakkuk Guldin later known as Paul Guldin, Swiss Jesuit mathematicianJune 28 - Peter Paul Rubens, painterNovember 25 - Piet Hein (Netherlands), Dutch naval officer and folk hero
DeathsJune 11 - king John III of PortugalAugust 27 - Titian, artistNovember 19 - Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlordNovember 29 - Saint Cuthbert Mayne, Roman Catholic martyr
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