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What Happened in January 1670

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Famous Birthdays

  • Jan 24 William Congreve, English dramatist (Love for Love), born in Bardsey, Egland (d. 1729)
Born in 1670

Famous Deaths

  • 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)

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