1670
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1670 was a common year starting on Saturday in countries using the Julian calendar and Wednesday in countries using the 10-day-faster Gregorian calendar.
| Years: 1667 1668 1669 - 1670 - 1671 1672 1673 | ||||||||||
| Decades: 1640s 1650s 1660s - 1670s - 1680s 1690s 1700s | ||||||||||
| Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
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Events
- January 21 – Highwayman Claude Duval is executed in Tyburn, Middlesex
- April - Pope Clement X is elected.
- May 2 - The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in England, but located in Canada.
- May 26 - In Dover, Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France secretly sign a treaty ending hostilities between their kingdoms
- August - Spanish frigates attack Charleston
- Phosphorus is discovered by Hennig Brand.
- Blaise Pascal's Pensées is posthumously published.
- England gains formal possession of Jamaica
- Les Invalides constructed by Louis XIV of France
- First French settlers in modern-day Senegal
- Rebellion of Cossacks in Ukraine crushed
- Henry Morgan captures Panama
- William Penn arrested and tried in London for preaching a Quaker sermon.
- Charleston, South Carolina Founded
Births
- January 24 - William Congreve, English playwright (d. 1729)
- February 28 - Benjamin Wadsworth, American President of Harvard University (d. 1737)
- May 8 - Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier (d. 1726)
- May 12 - King Frederick Augustus I of Poland (d. 1733)
- July 18 - Giovanni Bononcini, Italian composer (d. 1747)
- July 19 - Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (d. 1758)
- August 21 - James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French military commander (d. 1734)
- November 30 - John Toland, Irish philosopher (d. 1722)
- December 4 - John Aislabie, English politician and director of the South Sea Company (d. 1742)
Deaths
- January 3 - George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier (b. 1608)
- January 25 - Nicholas II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1612)
- February 19 - King Frederick III of Denmark (b. 1609)
- March 10 - Johann Glauber, German chemist (b. 1604)
- March 15 - John Davenport, Connecticut pioneer (b. 1597)
- May 21 - Niccolo Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist (b. 1586)
- May 23 - Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1610)
- June 30 - Princess Henrietta Anne Stuart of Scotland, England, and Ireland (b. 1644)
- October 27 - Vavasor Powell, Welsh non-conformist leader (b. 1617)
- November 15 - Comenius, Czech writer (b. 1592)
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