Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1640s  1650s  1660s  – 1670s –  1680s  1690s  1700s
Years:	1667 1668 1669 – 1670 – 1671 1672 1673

1670 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Year 1670 (MDCLXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1670 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1670

[edit] January–June

• January 21 – Highwayman Claude Duval is executed in Tyburn, Middlesex.
• April 29 – Pope Clement X succeeds Pope Clement IX as the 239th pope.
• 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 sign the Secret Treaty of Dover ending hostilities between their kingdoms. Louis XIV will give Charles 200,000 pounds annually. In return Charles will relax the laws against Catholics, gradually re-Catholicize England, support French policy against the Dutch and convert to Catholicism himself.

[edit] July–December

• August – Spanish frigates attack Charleston, South Carolina.
• September 1 – September 5 – William Penn and William Mead are tried in London for preaching a Quaker sermon.
• November 24 – Louis XIV of France authorises work to commence on the construction of Les Invalides.

[edit] Undated

• Phosphorus is discovered by Hennig Brand.
• Blaise Pascal's Pensées is posthumously published.
• England gains formal possession of Jamaica.
• First French settlers arrive in modern-day Senegal.
• The rebellion of Cossacks in the Ukraine is crushed.
• Henry Morgan captures Panama.
• Niani, capital of the Mali Empire, is sacked by the Bambara of the emerging Segou Empire.
• The rebellion of Stenka Razin begins.

[edit] Births

1670 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1670 MDCLXX
Ab urbe condita	2423
Armenian calendar	1119 ԹՎ ՌՃԺԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-174 – -173
Bengali calendar	1077
Berber calendar	2620
Buddhist calendar	2214
Burmese calendar	1032
Byzantine calendar	7178 – 7179
Chinese calendar	己酉年十二月初十日 (4306/4366-12-10) — to — 庚戌年十一月二十日 (4307/4367-11-20)
Coptic calendar	1386 – 1387
Ethiopian calendar	1662 – 1663
Hebrew calendar	5430 – 5431
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1725 – 1726
- Shaka Samvat	1592 – 1593
- Kali Yuga	4771 – 4772
Holocene calendar	11670
Iranian calendar	1048 – 1049
Islamic calendar	1080 – 1081
Japanese calendar	Kanbun 9 (寛文9年)
Korean calendar	4003
Thai solar calendar	2213
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• 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)
• Sultan Abdullah Khan Abdali, Persian Governor of Herat, Shah of Herat (d. 1721)

[edit] 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)
• April – Ahom King Swargadeo Chakradhwaj Singha or Supangmung of Assam, India
• May 21 – Niccolò 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)