1577

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1540s  1550s  1560s  – 1570s –  1580s  1590s  1600s
Years:	1574 1575 1576 – 1577 – 1578 1579 1580

1577 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1577 MDLXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2330
Armenian calendar	1026 ԹՎ ՌԻԶ
Assyrian calendar	6327
Balinese saka calendar	1498–1499
Bengali calendar	984
Berber calendar	2527
English Regnal year	19 Eliz. 1 – 20 Eliz. 1
Buddhist calendar	2121
Burmese calendar	939
Byzantine calendar	7085–7086
Chinese calendar	丙子年 (Fire Rat) 4273 or 4213     — to — 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 4274 or 4214
Coptic calendar	1293–1294
Discordian calendar	2743
Ethiopian calendar	1569–1570
Hebrew calendar	5337–5338
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1633–1634
- Shaka Samvat	1498–1499
- Kali Yuga	4677–4678
Holocene calendar	11577
Igbo calendar	577–578
Iranian calendar	955–956
Islamic calendar	984–985
Japanese calendar	Tenshō 5 (天正５年)
Javanese calendar	1496–1497
Julian calendar	1577 MDLXXVII
Korean calendar	3910
Minguo calendar	335 before ROC 民前335年
Nanakshahi calendar	109
Thai solar calendar	2119–2120
Tibetan calendar	阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 1703 or 1322 or 550     — to — 阴火牛年 (female Fire-Ox) 1704 or 1323 or 551

1577 (MDLXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday in the Julian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday in the proleptic Gregorian calendar.

Events

• 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
• The church in San Pedro in the Atacama Desert in Chile was built.
• November – The Great Comet of 1577 passed by Earth.