Editing 1577 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 17]] &ndash; [[Battle of Lubieszów]]: General [[Jan Zborowski]] leads the army of the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] in the catastrophic defeat of most of Jan Winkelbruch's 12,000 rebels and mercenaries from the Commonwealth's richest city, [[Danzig]], killing 4,420 of the men and capturing another 5,000 as prisoners. Only 88 of Zborowski's 2,500 troops are killed.<ref>Richard Brzezinski, ''Polish Armies 1569-1696'' (Osprey Publishing, 1988)</ref><ref>Radoslaw Sikora, ''Lubieszów 17 April 1577'' (Wydawnictwo Inforteditions, 2005)</ref> The [[Danzig Rebellion]] ends at the end of the year.
* [[May 27]] &ndash; English explorer [[Martin Frobisher]] departs from [[Blackwall, London|Blackwall]] in his flagship, [[English ship Aid (1562)|HMS ''Ayde'']], along with the ships ''Gabriel'' and ''Michael'', to begin the English expedition to North America.<ref name=RSR>Robert Steven Ruby, ''Unknown Shore: The Lost History of England's Arctic Colony'' (Henry Holt and Company, 2001) p.139</ref> 
*[[May 28]] &ndash; The ''Bergen Book'', better known as the ''Solid Declaration'' of the [[Formula of Concord]], one of the [[Lutheran]] confessional writings, is published. 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]]''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Theodore Gerhardt Tappert|title=The Book of Concord: The Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CvKDx7gcH7kC&pg=PA464|date=1 January 1959|publisher=Fortress Press|isbn=978-1-4514-1894-1|pages=464|language=en}}</ref>
*[[June 11]] &ndash; [[Sebastiano Venier]] becomes the new [[Doge of Venice|Doge]] of the [[Republic of Venice]], succeeding [[Alvise I Mocenigo|Alvise Mocenigo]], who died on June 4.<ref>{{cite web|title=Venier, Sebastiano|last=Brunetti|first=Mario|url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/sebastiano-venier_%28Enciclopedia-Italiana%29/|publisher=[[Enciclopedia Italiana]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210822234633/https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/sebastiano-venier_(Enciclopedia-Italiana)/|archive-date=22 August 2021}}</ref>
*[[June 12]] &ndash; The French city of [[Issoire]] surrenders and 3,000 of its Protestant Huguenots are massacred by the troops of the French Catholic General [[Francis, Duke of Anjou]], on orders by King [[Henry III of France]]. The massacre is carried out 20 months after the October 15, 1575 killing of Catholic residents by [[Matthieu Merle]].<ref>Pierre Miquel, ''Les Guerres de Religion'' ("The Wars of Religion") (Fayard, 1980) p.325</ref> Most of Issoire's buildings are torn down, and the royal troops leave an inscription on a pillar, ''Ici fut Issoire'' ("Here stood Issoire.")<ref>[[1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Issoire|"Issoire"]], ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' (11th ed.), Volume 14 (1911)</ref>
*[[June 13]] &ndash; [[Mirza Salman Jaberi]] is appointed as the new [[List of grand viziers of Persia|Grand Vizier of Persia]] by Shah Ismail II, replacing [[Mirza Shokrollah Isfahani]].
*[[June 29]] &ndash; [[Mehmed II Giray]] becomes the new [[Crimean Khanate|Khan of Crimea]] for the [[Ottoman Empire]], after the death of his father, [[Devlet I Giray]], from a plague.<ref>"Devlet I Giray (ö. 985/1577) Kırım hanı (1551-1577)", in ''TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi'', ed. by Halil Inalcik (in Turkish)</ref>