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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| 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 |
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).
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Events of 1670
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 a secret treaty 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.
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.
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.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1670 MDCLXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2423 |
| Armenian calendar | 1119 ԹՎ ՌՃԺԹ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -174 – -173 |
| 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 |
- 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)
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)
