History
1670
General
Population: 580 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Cornielle (tragedy), Dryden (historic play), Racine (tragedy), John Milton (history), John Ray (English proverbs),
Spinoza (theology), Blaise Pascal,
Music includes Molière (ballet-comedy),
Art includes Jacob van Ruisdael "Haarlem", Vermer "The Pearl Necklace"
- Medicine: Paul Amman writes "Medicine critica"
English physician Thomas Willis describes symptoms of diabetes
- Religion: Cardinal Emilio Altieri becomes Pope Clement X
Baruch Spinoza publishes against religious intolerance and poliical meddling
- Science: Gabriel Mouton devises decimal measurement
Blaise Pascal writes
- Technology: Italian scientist Giovanni Borelli arrtempts to use artificial wings for flight
First minute hands on watches
William Clement invents clock escapement
- Deaths: Educator Johann Amos Comenius, Architect Louis le Vau, Frederick III of Denmark, School reformer Johann Amos Comenius,
Architect Louis Le Vau, Grand Duke of Tuscany Ferdinando II de Medici
Africa
- Nigeria: Alafin Ajagbo founds Oyo empire in Nigeria
- Senegal: First French settlements
Fulani pastoralist people gain control of Bondu in south Senegal
Americas
- Panama: English freebooter Henry Morgan sacks Panama
Asia
- India: Drought and Famine
Europe
- General: Defensive allianve between France and Bavaria
- Denmark: Fredrick III of Denmark dies – succeeded by Christian V
- England: Secret Treaty of Dover between England and France – Charles agrees to restore Roman Catholicism to England in return for annual pension from France
John Dryden appointed historiographer royal and poet laureate
John Blow made organist of Westminster Abbey
- France: France occupies Lorraine
Louis XIV's Minister of War Marquis de Loubois introduces uniforms and paper cartridges in French army
- German States: First Italian comedy companies appear in Germany
- Holland: William of Orange made Capitan General of United Provinces
- Holy Roman Empire: Tobacco monopoly in Austria
- Italian States: Death of Grand Duke of Tuscany Ferdinando II de Medici and rule of Cosimo III De Medici
- Russia: Rebellion of Ukranian Cossacks to 1671 crushed by Jan Sobieski
General
- Hudson's Bay Company incorporated by royal charter to trade in region of N America draining into Hudson Bay
South
- South Carolina: English settlements start and Charleston founded