1670 was a common year starting on Saturday in countries using the Julian calendar and Wednesday in countries using the 10-day-faster Gregorian calendar.
1670 - Events.
January 21 – Highwayman Claude Duval is executed in Tyburn, Middlesex
April - Pope Clement X is elected.
May 2 - The Hudson's Bay Company is formed in England.
May 26 - In Dover, Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France secretly sign a treaty ending hostilities between their kingdoms
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75th Ranger Regiment
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Airborne Rangers
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USASOC
Special Operations Force, rapidly deployable light infantry force.
Each battalion can deploy anywhere in the world with 18 hours' notice.
Conducting conventional or special light-infantry operations, conducting direct action operations, conducting raids, infiltrating and exfiltrating by sea, air or land, recovery of personnel and special equipment.
Fort Benning, Georgia
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Charleston is a city in the counties of Berkeley and Charleston in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The city was founded as Charlestown or Charles Towne, Carolina in 1670, and moved to its present location in 1680. Up until 1800, Charleston was the fifth largest city in North America, behind Philadelphia, New York City, Boston, and Quebec City. It adopted its present name in 1783. Also known as The Holy City (due to the numerous steeples which dot the city's skyline), Charles ...
Zecharias Frankel was a Bohemian-German rabbi and a historian who studied the historical development of Judaism. He was born in Prague 30 September 1801, and died in Breslau (modern day Wrocław), on 13 February 1875. Frankel was the founder and the most eminent member of the school of historical Judaism, which advocates freedom of research, while upholding the authority of traditional Jewish belief and practice. This school of thought ...
The Cayman Islands are an overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the western Caribbean Sea comprising the islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman.
Cayman Islands - History.
Main articles: History of the Cayman Islands, and [[{{{2}}}]], a ...
Uman (Ukrainian: Умань, Uman’; Polish: Humań ), is a town in central Ukraine, Cherkasy Oblast (province). It is located at 48°45′N 30°13′E, a minor industrial center and capital of the Uman raion (administrative district). Currently about 100,000 people live in Uman.
Uman - History.
Uman is known since 1616 as a defensive fort built against Tatar raids and a prominent Cossack regiment was stationed in the town. In 1670–1674, Uman was a resi ...
Charles II (29 May 1630–6 February 1685) was the King of England, King of Scots, and King of Ireland from 30 January 1649 (retrospectively de jure) or 29 May 1660 (de facto) until his death. His father Charles I had been executed in 1649, following the English Civil War; the monarchy was then abolished and the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland became a republic under Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector (see Commonwealth of England and The Protectorate). In 1660, shortly after C ...
The Chickasaws are a Native American people of the United States, originally from present-day Mississippi, now mostly living in Oklahoma. They are related to the Choctaws, who speak a language very similar to the Chickasaw language. The Chickasaws were one of the "Five Civilized Tribes" forcibly removed to the Indian Territory during the era of Indian Removal.
Chickasaw - History.
The origin of the Chickasaws is uncertain. When Europeans first encountered them, the Chickasaws were living in villages in what ...
Sir William Penn (1621 – September 16, 1670) was an English admiral, and the father of William Penn, founder of the colony of Pennsylvania.
In the First Anglo-Dutch War, he served in the navy of the Commonwealth of England, commanding squadrons at the battles of the Kentish Knock (1652), Portland, the Gabbard and Scheveningen (1653).
In 1655 he commanded the fleet that seized Jamaica for the English crown.
At the Restoration he was sent in the Naseby (later the
A corporation is a legal entity (distinct from a natural person) that often has similar rights in law to those of a natural person. Civil law systems may refer to corporations as "moral persons;" they may also go by the name "AS" (anonymous society) or something similar, depending on language (see below).
In colloquial usage, "corporation" usually refers to a commercial entity set up in accordance with a governmental framework. Churches (mainly in US, but not so much in other countries, where Churches have a different st ...
Jan Amos Komenský (Latinized Comenius) (March 28, 1592, in Moravia (now the Czech Republic) – November 15, 1670, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) was a Czech teacher, scientist, educator and writer, known as teacher of nations. He was a Unity of the Brethren/Moravian protestant bishop, a religious refugee and one of the earliest champions of universal education eventually set forth in his book Didactica magna.
Comenius - Life and work.
The birthplace of Comenius is not known. There are th ...
Divorce or dissolution of marriage is the ending of a marriage before the death of either spouse, which can be contrasted with an annulment which is a declaration that a marriage is void, though the effects of marriage may be recognized in such unions, such as spousal support, child custody and distribution of property.
In many developed countries, divorce rates have increased markedly during the twentieth century. Among the states in which divorce has become commonplace are the United States, Korea and members of ...
Iridology is an alternative medicine practice in which patterns, colors and other characteristics of stromal fibers of the iris are examined for information about a patient's systemic health. Practitioners match their observations to iris charts which divide the iris into many zones believed to correspond to specific parts of the human body. Little if any rigorous scientific evidence exists confirming any such link between aspects of the iris and a patient's state of health and there is no recognized ca ...
A clock (from the Latin cloca, "bell") is an instrument for measuring time. A clock is usually a physical instrument; an especially accurate one is called a chronometer. The clock in its modern form (24 hour clock) has been in use since at least the 14th century. Clock can refer to an abstract system of time measurement (see calendar for other measurements). Modern clocks define constant units of time: an hour is always sixty minutes, of sixty seconds each.
Clock - History.
The clock is one of the ol ...
Algol (β Per / Beta Persei) is a bright star in the constellation Perseus. It is one of the best known eclipsing binaries, the first such star to be discovered, and also one of the first variable stars in general to be discovered. Algol's magnitude changes regularly between 2.3 and 3.5 over a period of 2 days, 20 hours and 49 minutes.
As an eclipsing binary, it is actually two stars in close orbit around one another. Because the orbital plane coincidentally matches the Earth's line of sight, the dimmer star (Algol B) passes in ...
History of Christianity
Jesus of Nazareth
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The Crusades
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The Trinity
God the Father
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Sikkim is a landlocked Indian state nestled in the Himalayas. It is the least populous state in India, and the second smallest in area after Goa. Sikkim was an independent state ruled by the Chogyal monarchy until 1975, when a referendum to make it India's twenty-second state succeeded. The thumb-shaped state borders Nepal in the west, the People's Republic of China to the north and east, and Bhutan in the south-east. The Indian state of West Bengal borders Sikkim to its south. The official language is Nepali, and the predominant religions are Hinduism and Vajrayana Buddh ...
Admiral of the Fleet is a rank of the British Royal Navy and other navies, the equivalent of Fleet Admiral in the United States Navy.
The rank evolved from the ancient sailing days of Royal Navy squadrons. Each squadron was designated a colour, that of Red, White, or Blue. Each coloured squadron was assigned an Admiral, who in turn had command over a Vice-Admiral and a Rear Admiral. The Admiral of the Fleet, therefore, commanded th ...
December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 25 days remaining.
December 6 - Events.
963 - Leo VIII is elected Pope.
1240 - Mongol invasion of Rus: Kiev under Danylo of Halych and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.
1534 - The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar.
1768 - The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is ...
