1670

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1640s  1650s  1660s  – 1670s –  1680s  1690s  1700s
Years:	1667 1668 1669 – 1670 – 1671 1672 1673

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1670 Media

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  January 21: Highwayman Claude Duval (pictured in William Powell Frith's 1860 painting), hanged in England.

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  Augustus II the Strong

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  • Portrait of Jacob Westerbaen

1670 (MDCLXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1670th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 670th year of the 2nd millennium, the 70th year of the 17th century, and the 1st year of the 1670s decade. As of the start of 1670, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

• April 29 – Pope Clement X succeeds Pope Clement IX as the 239th pope.
• July 18 – Spain recognises Jamaica and the Cayman Islands as English possessions by the Treaty of Madrid.