1670
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This article is about the year 1670.
| 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 by topic: | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1670 MDCLXX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2423 |
| Armenian calendar | 1119 ԹՎ ՌՃԺԹ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6420 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -174–-173 |
| Bengali calendar | 1077 |
| Berber calendar | 2620 |
| English Regnal year | 21 Cha. 2 – 22 Cha. 2 |
| 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 | 1726–1727 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1592–1593 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4771–4772 |
| Holocene calendar | 11670 |
| Igbo calendar | |
| - Ǹrí Ìgbò | 670–671 |
| Iranian calendar | 1048–1049 |
| Islamic calendar | 1080–1081 |
| Japanese calendar | Kanbun 9 (寛文9年) |
| Juche calendar | N/A (before 1912) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
| Korean calendar | 4003 |
| Minguo calendar | 242 before ROC 民前242年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2213 |
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Year 1670 (MDCLXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
Events[edit]
January–June[edit]
- January 21 – French-born highwayman Claude Duval is executed at Tyburn in London.
- April 29 – Pope Clement X succeeds Pope Clement IX as the 239th pope.
- May 2 – The Hudson's Bay Company is founded in England to operate in Canada.
- May 26 – At Dover in England, Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France sign the Secret Treaty of Dover ending hostilities between their kingdoms. Louis 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[edit]
- July 18 (July 8, O.S.) – Spain recognises Jamaica and the Cayman Islands as English possessions by the Treaty of Madrid.
- August – Spanish frigates attack Charleston, South Carolina.
- September 1–5 – 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 a veterans hospital in Paris.
- December 15 – Welsh-born privateer in English service Henry Morgan recaptures Santa Catalina Island, Colombia.
- December 27 – Henry Morgan captures Fort San Lorenzo on Panama's Caribbean coast.
Date unknown[edit]
- Stenka Razin begins the rebellion of Cossacks in the Ukraine.
- Niani, capital of the Mali Empire, is sacked by the Bambara people of the emerging Segou Empire.
- First French settlers arrive on the Petite Côte of modern-day Senegal.
Births[edit]
- 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)
- date unknown – Sultan Abdullah Khan Abdali, Persian Governor of Herat, Shah of Herat (d. 1721)
Deaths[edit]
- 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)
