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1 June - The secret treaty of Dover is signed between King Charles II of England and France.^[1]
8 July O.S. - Spain recognises Jamaica and the Cayman Islands as English possessions by the Treaty of Madrid.
18 August - John Dryden is appointed as historiographer royal.^[1]
20 September - Production of Mrs Aphra Behn's first play, The Forced Marriage, at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre by the Duke's Company, with Thomas Betterton in the lead.^[2]
9 November - Bushel's Case establishes that members of a jury may not be punished for delivering a verdict according to their conscience even if contrary to the view of the judge.
21 December - John Coventry is maimed for making a joke about the King.^[3]
Rock salt is discovered near Northwich in Cheshire.^[4]

24 January - William Congreve, playwright (died 1729)
10 April - Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwich, (died 1729)
23 April - Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos, historian (died 1735)
8 May - Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, soldier (died 1726)
19 July - Richard Leveridge, bass and composer (died 1758)
21 August - James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, illegitimate son of King James II (died 1734)
27 September - Sir Thomas Stanley, 4th Baronet, Member of Parliament (died 1714)
4 December - John Aislabie, politician and director of the South Sea Company (died 1742)
James Annesley, 3rd Earl of Anglesey, (died 1702)
Laurence Echard, historian (died 1730)
Sarah Fyge Egerton, poet (died 1723)
Sir William Lowther, 1st Baronet (1670-1705), Member of Parliament (died 1705)
Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham, royal favourite (died 1734)

3 January - George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, soldier (born 1608)
21 January - Claude Duval, highwayman (born 1643, France)
15 March - John Davenport, clergy (born 1597)
5 May - Sir Geoffrey Palmer, 1st Baronet, lawyer and politician (born 1598)
30 June - Princess Henrietta Anne Stuart (born 1644)
4 July - Christopher Hatton, 1st Baron Hatton, Royalist (born 1605)
16 September - William Penn, admiral (born 1621)
21 November - Sir Walter Yonge, 2nd Baronet, Member of Parliament (born c. 1625)
Gilbert Mabbot, licenser of the press (born 1622)

1 2 Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 274. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
↑ "Behn, Aphra (c. 1640–1689)". novelguide.com. 2004. Retrieved 2011-01-28.
↑ Munsell, Joel (1858). The Every Day Book of History and Chronology. D. Appleton & Co.
↑ Martindale, Adam (1670-12-12). "Extracts of Two Letters, Written ... from ... Cheshire, Novemb. 12. and Nov. 26. 1670. Concerning the Discovery of a Rock of Natural Salt in That Country". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. London. 5: 2015–2017. doi:10.1098/rstl.1670.0033. JSTOR 101610.

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