1670

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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 by topic:
Arts and Science
Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science
Lists of leaders
Colonial governors - State leaders
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Works category
Works

**1670 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1670 MDCLXX
Ab urbe condita	2423
Armenian calendar	1119 ԹՎ ՌՃԺԹ
Chinese calendar	4366 – 4367 己酉 – 庚戌
Ethiopian calendar	1662 – 1663
Hebrew calendar	5430 – 5431
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1725 – 1726
- Shaka Samvat	1592 – 1593
- Kali Yuga	4771 – 4772
Iranian calendar	1048 – 1049
Islamic calendar	1081 – 1082

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.

Events

January 21 – Highwayman Claude Duval is executed in Tyburn, Middlesex
April 29 - Pope Clement X succeeds Pope Clement IX as the 237th 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 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)
April - Ahom King Swargadeo Chakradhwaj Singha or Supangmung of Assam, India
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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