However, the Canal du Midi was built using concrete in 1670, and there are concrete structures in Finland that date from the 16th century.

From 1670, the Cayman Islands were effective dependencies of Jamaica, although there was considerable self-government.

The Royal Danish Army includes amongst its historic regiments the Jutish Dragoon Regiment, which was raised in 1670.

The company was incorporated by English royal charter in 1670 as The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay and functioned as the de facto government in parts of North America before European states and later the United States laid claim to those territories.

The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson's Bay was incorporated on 2 May 1670, with a royal charter from King Charles II.

In 1670 the headland of Cap Français, now Cap-Haïtien, was settled further to the east along the northern coast.

Harwich was first settled in 1670 as part of Yarmouth.

The tsar's army finally crushed his forces in 1670 ; a year later Stenka was captured and beheaded.

In 1655 Jamaica was conquered by the English, although the Spanish did not relinquish their claim to the island until 1670.

( Indirect proof via the inverse power series technique was given by Newton and Leibniz between 1670 and 1680.

The English Levant Company was founded in 1581 to trade with the Ottoman Empire and in 1670 the French Compagnie du Levant was founded for the same purpose.

Pope Clement X ( 13 July 1590 – 22 July 1676 ), born Emilio Bonaventura Altieri, was Pope from 29 April 1670 to 22 July 1676.

On 29 April 1670, the papacy was offered to him by fifty-nine Cardinals present at the election ; only two being against him.

Each planter was allocated one of 130 pieces of land, but the Company had great difficulty attracting new immigrants, the population falling to only 66, including 18 slaves, by 1670.

In 1669 Pepys had to prepare detailed answers to the committee's eight ' Observations ' on the Navy Board's conduct, and in 1670 he was forced to defend his own role.

It was captured twice by Cossack rebels, under Stepan Razin in the rebellion of 1670 and Yemelyan Pugachev in 1774.

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

Year 1670 ( MDCLXX ) was a common year starting on Wednesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.

It was mostly destroyed in 1670 and again in 1856 by fire, which only left the choir and tower undamaged.

The Strumica Carnival ( Macedonian: Струмички Карневал, translated Strumichki Karneval ) has been held since at least 1670, when the Turkish author Evlija Chelebija wrote while staying there, " I came into a town located in the foothills of a high hillock and what I saw that night was masked people running house – to – house, with laughter, scream and song.

* May 12 – John Dryden, English poet and dramatist who was poet laureate ( 1670 – 1688 ).

In 1670 the Province of South Carolina was founded with surplus persons leaving Barbados.

The Danish claim was strong ; they had the benefit of the Treaty of Alliance and Commerce of 1670 between Britain and Denmark, which led to the founding of the Danish West India Company in 1671 which its charter permitted it to take possession of and occupy the two islands.

The first printed version of the Revelations was available to the public in 1670, and was edited by the Benedictine Serenus Cressy.

On 6 May 1680, Charles married Ulrike Eleonora ( 1656 – 1693 ), daughter of King Frederick III of Denmark ( 1609 – 1670 ).

He married Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel ( or Hesse-Cassel ) on 14 May 1667 at Nykøbing and ascended the throne on 9 February 1670.

In 1670 he had married another Quaker, Christian Mollison ( c. 1651 – 1722 ), of Aberdeen.

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.

He married Lady Elizabeth Percy daughter of Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland, by whom, he had an only son Algernon ( 1670 – 1710 ), who succeeded him as the 2nd Earl of Essex and a daughter, Anne, who married Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle.

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.

* Lady Elizabeth Cavendish ( 1670 – 1741 ), married Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet and had issue

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.

Dorothy died in 1670 and he married again in 1672, Gertrude Perrepont, daughter of William Pierrepont of Thoresby.

His granddaughter, Elizabeth Withipoll, married Leicester Devereux, 6th Viscount Hereford and the mansion passed to the Devereux family, who rebuilt the upper floors after a fire in about 1670, when the main porch was also added.

# Nicolas de Lorraine, Duke of Lorraine ( 1609 – 1670 ) married Claude de Lorraine and had issue ;

Oldest known ancestor of the Wallenberg family is Per Hansson ( 1670 – 1741 ), who in 1692 married Kerstin Jacobsdotter Schuut ( 1671 – 1752 ).

* Dorothea Sophie ( 1670 – 1748 ), married in 1690 to Odoardo Farnese, Hereditary Prince of Parma, and was the mother of Elisabeth Farnese, future queen of Spain ; present rulers of Spain, Belgium and Luxembourg and pretenders of Italy and the Two Sicilies descend from them ;

# Ferdinando II de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( July 14, 1610 – May 23, 1670 ) who married Vittoria della Rovere and had issue.

# Erdmuthe Sophie ( 25 February 1644-22 June 1670 ), married on 29 October 1662 to Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth.

Jonas Budde was married in 1670 in Fredericia, Denmark with Alhed Wiborg, born 29 September 1633 in Malmø, Denmark ( modern Sweden ), daughter of mayor ( borgermester ) Niels Wiborg and Karen Hendrichsdatter Franche.

* In 1670 he married Carola Harsnett, daughter of Sir Roger Harsnett ; they had two children.

* Ercole Grimaldi, Marquis of Baux ( 1623 – 2 August 1651 ); married on 4 July 1641 to Aurelia Spinola ( d. 29 September 1670 )

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.

* Lady Frances Wilhelmina Bentinck ( 18 February 1684 – 31 March 1712 ), who married the 4th Baron Byron ( 4 January 1670 – 8 August 1736 ) on 19 December 1706 and had four children.

Count Ulrik Frederik married thrice: once, childlessly, to the famous Marie Grubbe, from whom he was divorced after nine years in 1670.

* Wiktoria Elżbieta Potocka (?- c. 1670 ), was married to Adam Hieronim Sieniawski and Andrzej Potocki

She died in 1662, and in 1670 he married Flower, widow of William Bishop and Sir William Backhouse, and daughter of William Backhouse, gaining the manor and house of Swallowfield Park, Berkshire ; later she was first lady of the bedchamber to Queen Anne.