1670

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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).

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Events of 1670

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

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 secretly sign a treaty ending hostilities between their kingdoms

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.

Undated

★ 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 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.

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)

★ June 10 - Jabez Lewis (in Barnstable, MA.) (d. 1738)

★ 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)
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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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