1670: Difference between revisions

1670 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1670; MDCLXX
Ab urbe condita	2423
Armenian calendar	1119; ԹՎ ՌՃԺԹ
Assyrian calendar	6420
Balinese saka calendar	1591–1592
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 (Earth Rooster); 4367 or 4160; — to —; 庚戌年 (Metal Dog); 4368 or 4161
Coptic calendar	1386–1387
Discordian calendar	2836
Ethiopian calendar	1662–1663
Hebrew calendar	5430–5431
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1726–1727
- Shaka Samvat	1591–1592
- Kali Yuga	4770–4771
Holocene calendar	11670
Igbo calendar	670–671
Iranian calendar	1048–1049
Islamic calendar	1080–1081
Japanese calendar	Kanbun 10; (寛文１０年)
Javanese calendar	1592–1593
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 10 days
Korean calendar	4003
Minguo calendar	242 before ROC; 民前242年
Nanakshahi calendar	202
Thai solar calendar	2212–2213
Tibetan calendar	阴土鸡年; (female Earth-Rooster); 1796 or 1415 or 643; — to —; 阳金狗年; (male Iron-Dog); 1797 or 1416 or 644

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

Content deleted Content added

Inline

Revision as of 00:40, 2 July 2008

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 secretly sign a treaty ending hostilities between their kingdoms. Louis XIV would give Charles 200,000 pounds annually. In return Charles would relax the laws against Catholics, gradually re-Catholicize England, support French policy against the Dutch and convert to Catholicism himself.

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.

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

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)

@@ Line 24: / Line 24: @@
 ===Undated===
-* [[Phosphorus]] is discovered by [[Hennig Brand]].
 * [[Blaise Pascal]]'s ''Pensées'' is posthumously published.
 * England gains formal possession of [[Jamaica]].