1577 - Definition and Overview

Events

• The church in San Pedro in the Atacama Desert in Chile was built.

Births

• April 12 - King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway
• June 12 - Habbakkuk Guldin later known as Paul Guldin, Swiss Jesuit mathematician
• June 28 - Peter Paul Rubens, painter
• November 25 - Piet Hein (Netherlands), Dutch naval officer and folk hero

Deaths

• June 11 - king John III of Portugal
• August 27 - Titian, artist
• November 19 - Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlord