1670

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Years:	1667 1668 1669 - 1670 - 1671 1672 1673

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Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

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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

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

1670 in other calendars

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
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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)

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)

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