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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).

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

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.
• November 24 – Louis XIV of France authorises work to commence on the construction of Les Invalides.

Undated

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

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)
• 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)

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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