England took formal control of the Caymans, along with Jamaica, under the Treaty of Madrid in 1670 after the first settlers came from Jamaica in 1661-71 to Little Cayman and Cayman Brac.

1670 ), however, a distinctly German style came only after 1700 in the works of Silvius Leopold Weiss ( 1686 – 1750 ), one of the greatest lute composers, some of whose works were transcribed for keyboard by none other than Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ), who composed a few pieces for the lute himself ( although it is unclear whether they were really intended for the lute, rather than another plucked string instrument or the lautenwerk ).

In 1670, the fortress was taken by troops of Stepan Razin, who left after a month.

A bitter dispute between Hooke and Christiaan Huygens on the priority of this invention was to continue for centuries after the death of both ; but a note dated 23 June 1670 in the Hooke Folio ( see External links below ), describing a demonstration of a balance-controlled watch before the Royal Society, has been held to favour Hooke's claim.

The title of Poet Laureate, as a royal office, was first conferred by letters patent on John Dryden in 1670, two years after Davenant's death.

Further editions appeared in his lifetime ( 1670 and 1679 ), with the fourth edition ( 1706 ) appearing just after his death and featuring the engraving of Evelyn shown on this page even though it had been made more than 50 years prior by Robert Nanteuil in 1651 in Paris.

* Mary Bonaventure Browne, Poor Clare and historian, born after 1610, died after 1670

But in 1670, shortly after Cap François, later Cap Français, now Cap-Haïtien, had been established, the crisis of tobacco intervened and a great number of places were abandoned.

A decade or more after his arrival in London, Cibber married ( as his second wife — his first wife had died ) Jane Colley on 24 November 1670 at St Giles in the Fields, London.

Old corn laws were adjusted to the advantage of English farmers: the old restrictions on the exportation of wheat was gradually relaxed, exportation becoming fully free in 1670 and even subsidized with bounties after 1673.

Turnour become Solicitor-General in 1670 and held the speakership until 1671 ( end of 9th Session ), after which he was appointed the new Chief Baron of the Exchequer.

During Ottoman rule, it was the capital of the Karli İli sanjak ( named after Carlo II Tocco, Despot of Epirus ), initially as part of the vilayet of Rumelia ( 1499 – 1670 ) and afterward part of the vilayet of Yannina ( Ioannina ).

He lost estate after estate due to lawsuits, till in 1670 he parted with his last piece of property and ancestral home, Easton Piers.

He was offered the post of Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1660 but was unwilling to serve, and was Lord Lieutenant in 1669 – 1670 ; from 1661 to 1673 he was Lord Privy Seal although he did not exercise his office after his return from Ireland.

In 1669, King Frederick III decided to set up an animal park in the area and his son, Christian V, extended the size of the park by 3-4 times after he became king in 1670.

It continued in the crown from the time of Richard III's marriage with Anne Neville, until Queen Mary granted it to William Lord Paget, in whose family it continued more than a century ; after which, it passed, by purchase, to Sir Humphrey Winch, in 1670 ; to Lord Falkland in 1686 ; to Sir James Etheridge in 1690 ; to Sir John Guise in 1718 ; and to Sir William Clayton in 1736.

William Penn was arrested on 14 August 1670 for delivering a sermon in the street in front of the building after having been forbidden to preach indoors.

When, on 9 February 1670, Schumacher delivered the Kongelov to Christian V, the king bade all those about him withdraw, and after being closeted a good hour with Schumacher appointed him his Obergeheimesekreter.

It is named after the Rue de Chevaleret, a street that already existed in 1670, and was named after the locality, which in turn was probably named after its owner.

* 1670 – The Hudson's Bay Company is granted a British royal charter to conduct the Indian Trade in the 3. 9 million square kilometer territory named after Prince Rupert of the Rhine known as Rupert Land.

On the sudden death of her aunt in 1670, Anne returned to England.

Madame Henriette died at Saint-Cloud in 1670 ; rumors abounded that she had been poisoned by her husband or his long-term lover, the Chevalier de Lorraine ; the two would remain together till the death of the Duke of Orléans in 1701.

On 17 January 1670, judge Sir William Morton found him guilty of six robberies ( others remained unproven ) and sentenced him to death.

John Hacket ( 1592 – 1670 ) was an English churchman, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry from 1661 until his death.

On the death of Frederick III ( 9 February 1670 ) Schumacher was the most trusted of all the royal counsellors.

Upon the death of John Pell's brother, Thomas Pell, in 1670, the mathematician's son, Sir John Pell inherited lands in New York, where he lived as the first Lord of the Manor of Pelham.

Seven of them survived and, after the death of their mother in 1670, accepted a substantial inheritance.

Following Bronck's death, and the dispersion of the few settlers, the tract passed through the hands of successive Dutch traders until 1664, when it came into the possession of Samuel Edsall, ( who had also acquired large tract on the North River known as the English Neighborhood ) who held it until 1670.

After last serving in a public capacity in 1670, when he was 78 years old, Gorton continued to live in Warwick until his death in 1677.

After the architect's own death in 1670, his hôtel was bought by the La Haye family, who owned the other residence as well.

The King died in 1670, and the Queen Dowager lived there until her death on 20 February 1685.

He was elevated to the peerage and House of Lords in 1670 on the death of his father and inherited his father's peerage titles.

He was set free in 1667, however, in the following year he was again imprisoned and was in custody until his death on 27 October 1670.

In 1668, William Lilly, the astrologer and occultist, had commented on the connection between comets and the death of princes in a draft to his 1670 almanac: comets indicated, wrote Lilly, “ some dreadful matter at hand ,” and were “ a prediction of the fall of kings and tyrants .” The latter comment was removed from the draft by L ’ Estrange.

He lived eight years after his return, still working for the booksellers, and continuing to produce well-regarded works until his death, for example a large plate of Edinburgh dated 1670.

In 1670, the year after her canonization, the feast day of the saint was inserted in the General Roman Calendar for celebration on 25 May, the day of her death ( as today ).

Lars Stigzelius ( October 27, 1598 – August 31, 1676 ) was Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden from 1670 to his death.

In 1670, five years after her death, Samaniego told how at the age of twenty-two she had been miraculously conveyed to Texas and New Mexico, to convert a native people, and had made five hundred bilocations for that purpose in one year.

On the death of his uncle, Ludovic Stuart, he succeeded him as 12th Seigneur D ' Aubigny, for which title he did homage by proxy to Louis XIV of France on 11 May 1670.

He succeeded as 2nd Earl of Atholl on his father's demise in June 1642 and as 3rd Earl of Tullibardine after the death of his first cousin the 2nd Earl in 1670.

It includes: Henrietta Maria of France ( died 1669 ), exiled Queen of England ; Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, founder of the House of Orléans ; his first wife Henrietta Anne Stuart | Princess Henriette ( died 1670 ); the couples first daughter Marie Louise d ' Orléans ( 1662 – 1689 ) | Marie Louise d ' Orléans ( later Queen of Spain ); Anne of Austria ( died 1666 ); the Orléans daughters of Gaston, Duke of Orléans | Gaston de France ; Louis XIV ; the Dauphin of France with his wife Maria Theresa of Spain with her third daughter Princess Marie-Thérèse of France ( 1667 – 1672 ) | Marie-Thérèse de France, called Madame Royale ( died 1672 ) and her second son Philippe-Charles de France, duc d ' Anjou ( d1671 ).

In 1670 he was married to Eleonora Maria of Austria ( 1653-1697 ), daughter of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, by his third wife Eleonora Gonzaga.

** Princess Henrietta of England ( 1644 – 1670 ), first wife of Philippe,

Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle KG, and lord of De Voorst in Guelders ( Gelderland ) ( baptized 30 January 1670, Zutphen – 30 May 1718 ), was the son of Oswald van Keppel and his wife Anna Geertruid van Lintelo.

He refused a bribe from Louis XIV, but allowed his wife to accept a gift of 10, 000 crowns ; in 1670 he was the only minister besides the Roman Catholic Clifford to whom the first secret treaty of Dover ( May 1670 ), one clause of which provided for Charles's declaration of his conversion to Romanism, was confided ; and he was the chief actor in the deception practised upon the rest of the council.

By his wife, Bridget Cromwell, Ireton left one son, Henry Ireton ( c. 1652 – 1711 ), and three daughters, one of whom, Bridget Bendish ( she married Thomas Bendish in 1670 ) is said to have compromised herself in the Rye House Plot of 1683, as did Henry.

By his first wife, Diane de Budos de Portes, a relative of Condé, whom he married in 1644 and who died in 1670, he had three daughters.

A book published in England in 1670 ( Hull Elections – Richard Perry and his fiddler wife ) mentions the thimblerig game.

After Henrietta Anne died in 1670 the Duke took a second wife, the Princess Palatine, who preferred to live in the Château de Saint-Cloud.

In 1670, after mediation of Charles ' sister Henrietta Anne Stuart, wife of the brother of Louis, France and England signed the secret Treaty of Dover.

Sir John Fitzjames ( died 1670 ) son of Leweston, and his wife Margaret Stephens are buried beneath a large well preserved tablet on the floor immediately west of the church altar.

* Henrietta of England ( 1644 – 1670 ), the first wife of King Louis XIV's younger brother, Philippe, Duke of Orléans, ( Monsieur ).

His second wife was Anne Brett ( died 1670 ), a cousin of Buckingham's mother, whom he married somewhat reluctantly in 1621 in order to ensure Buckingham's support.

Childen by his second wife Anne Brett ( d. 1670 ):

* ( 1 ) 18 January 1670, Lady Jane, daughter of William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas by his second wife Lady Mary, daughter of George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly.

* First wife: Anne Françoise Morin married 11 May 1670 and had one daughter Marie Anne Jeanne de Courcillon who married Honoré Charles d ' Albert de Luynes and were the parents of Charles Louis d ' Albert de Luynes ; present Duke of Luynes are descendants of Philippe ;