1670

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[edit] Events of 1670

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. Louis XIV would give Charles 200,000 pounds annually. In return Charles would relax the laws against Catholics, gradually re-Catholicize England, support French policy against the Dutch and convert to Catholicism himself.

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.

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.
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.
Rebellion of Stenka Razin begins.

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)