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 in topic: | |
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
- 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
Births
- January 24 – William Congreve, English playwright (d. 1729)
- May 12 – King Frederick Augustus I of Poland (d. 1733)
- August 21 – James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French military commander (d. 1734)
- December 7 – John Aislabie, English politician and director of the South Sea Company (d. 1742)
Deaths
- February 19 – King Frederick III of Denmark (b. 1609)
- March 10 – Johann Glauber, German-Dutch alchemist and chemist (b. 1604)
- 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)
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