1670

1670 was a Common year beginning on a Saturday in countries using the Julian calendar and a Wednesday in countries using the Gregorian calendar.

Years:
1667 1668 1669 - 1670 - 1671 1672 1673
Decades:
1640s 1650s 1660s - 1670s - 1680s 1690s 1700s
Centuries:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century
1670 by topic:
Science - State leaders - Literature - Music

Events

January 21 - Highwayman Claude Duval is executed in Tyburn, Middlesex
April - Pope Clement X is elected.
May 2 - The Hudson's Bay Company is formed in England.
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.

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)