Major Events
- Feb 4 Battle of Sinhagad, Shivaji commander Tanaji Malusare recaptures fort of Sinhagad from the Mugals, scaling the walls with help of pet monitor lizard
- Feb 14 Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna
- Feb 17 France and Bavaria sign military assistance treaty
- Feb 27 Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I orders all Jews expelled from Austria, given until August to comply
- Apr 29 Clemens X [Emilio Bonaventura Altieri] elected Pope
- May 2 King Charles II gives royal charter to the Hudson's Bay Company
- Jun 1 English King Charles II & French King Louis XIV sign secret anti-Dutch treaty
- Jul 25 Austrian Emperor Leopold I expels 4,000 Jews from Vienna
- Jul 25 Don Juan Domingo Zuniga y Fonseca becomes governor-general of Southern Netherlands
- Sep 18 French bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet appointed tutor to the Dauphin, son of Louis XIV
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Born in 1670
- Jan 24 William Congreve, English dramatist (Love for Love), born in Bardsey, Egland (d. 1729)
- Feb 10 Norbert van Bloemen [Cephalus], Flemish painter, born in Antwerp (d. 1746)
- Feb 14 Georg Gabriel Schutz, German composer, born in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1716)
- Feb 28 Benjamin Wadsworth, American President of Harvard University (d. 1737)
- Apr 24 Christian Ludwig Boxberg, German composer, born in Sondershausen, Thuringia, Germany (d. 1729)
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Who Died in 1670
- Jan 3 George Monck, English general (Civil War Royalist, Battle of Dunbar, Anglo-Dutch Wars), dies at 61
- Jan 21 Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French aristocrat playwright and poet, dies at 80
- Jan 25 Nicholas II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1612)
- Feb 9 Frederick III, King of Denmark and Norway (1648-70), dies at 60
- Mar 10 Johann Rudolf Glauber, German chemist (b. 1604)
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