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.
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 crushedHenry Morgan captures Panama
BirthsJanuary 24 - William Congreve, English playwright. May 12 - King Frederick Augustus I of Poland (+ 1733).August 21 - James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, illegitimate son of the Duke of York (the later James II of England) and later French military commander.December 7 - John Aislabie, Director of the South Sea Company.
DeathsFebruary 19 - King Frederick III of DenmarkMarch 10 - Johann Glauber, German-Dutch alchemist and chemistMay 23 - Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1610)June 30 - Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland, Duchess of Orléans.
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