1670

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century

Decades: 1620s 1630s 1640s 1650s 1660s - 1670s - 1680s 1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s

Years: 1665 1666 1667 1668 1669 - 1670 - 1671 1672 1673 1674 1675

• Henry Morgan captures Panama
• April - Pope Clement X is elected.
• May 2 - The Hudsons 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 Brandt[?].
• Blaise Pascal's Pensees is posthumously published.
• England gains formal possession of Jamaica
• Les Invalides constructed by Louis XIV of France

Births

• January 24 - William Congreve, English playwright.
• May 12 - King Frederick Augustus I of Poland (+ 1733)
• December 7 - John Aislabie[?], Director of the South Sea Company[?].

Deaths

• February 19 - Frederick III of Denmark