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What Happened In History Year 1670

Historical Events for the Year 1670

  • 1st June » In Dover, England, Charles II of Great Britain and Louis XIV of France sign the secret treaty of Dover, which will force England into the Third Anglo-Dutch War.

Famous Birthdays in 1670

  • 6th January » Alexander Gordon (general) e.g Alexander Gordon, Scottish-Russian military commander (d. 1752)
  • 24th January » William Congreve (playwright) or William Congreve, English playwright (d. 1729)
  • 28th February » Benjamin Wadsworth, American clergyman and academic (d. 1737)
  • 8th May » Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire (d. 1726)
  • 12th May » Augustus II the Strong, Polish king (d. 1733)
  • 5th July » Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg (d. 1748)
  • 18th July » Giovanni Bononcini, Italian cellist and composer (d. 1747)
  • 19th July » Richard Leveridge, English singer-songwriter (d. 1758)
  • 21st August » James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire (d. 1734)
  • 30th November » John Toland, Irish philosopher and author (d. 1722)
  • 4th December » John Aislabie, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1742)

Famous Deaths in History for 1670

  • 3rd January » George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier and politician (b. 1608)
  • 25th January » Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1612)
  • 9th February » Frederick III of Denmark (b. 1609)
  • 10th March » Johann Rudolf Glauber, German chemist (b. 1604)
  • 15th March » John Davenport (Puritan) or John Davenport, English-American clergyman, co-founded the New Haven Colony (b. 1597)
  • 21st May » Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist (b. 1586)
  • 30th June » Henrietta of England (b. 1644)
  • 27th October » Vavasor Powell, Welsh evangelist (b. 1617)
  • 15th November » John Amos Comenius, Czech bishop, philosopher, and educator (b. 1592)

Historical events for the year 1670 by month