1670

Year 1670 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 10-day slower ).

January - June

 * –  is executed in ,
 * - succeeds  as the 239th.
 * - The is founded in, but located in.
 * - In,  and  secretly sign a treaty ending hostilities between their kingdoms

July - December

 * - Spanish frigates attack.
 * - -  and  are tried in London for preaching a Quaker sermon.

Undated

 * is discovered by.
 * 's Pensées is posthumously published.
 * England gains formal possession of.
 * constructed by.
 * First French settlers arrive in modern-day.
 * Rebellion of in  is crushed.
 * captures.
 * , capital of the Mali Empire, is sacked by the of the emerging Segou Empire.

Births

 * -, English playwright (d. )
 * -, American President of Harvard University (d. )
 * -, English soldier (d. )
 * - King (d. )
 * - (d. )
 * -, Italian composer (d. )
 * -, English bass and composer (d. )
 * -, French military commander (d. )
 * -, Irish philosopher (d. )
 * -, English politician and director of the South Sea Company (d. )
 * Sultan Abdullah Khan Abdali, Persian Governor of Herat, Shah of Herat (d. )


 * See also .

Deaths

 * -, English soldier (b. )
 * - (b. )
 * - King (b. )
 * -, German chemist (b. )
 * -, Connecticut pioneer (b. )
 * April - King Swargadeo  or  of, India
 * -, Italian astronomer and physicist (b. )
 * - (b. )
 * - Princess of Scotland, England, and Ireland (b. )
 * -, Welsh non-conformist leader (b. )
 * -, Czech writer (b. )


 * See also .