Editing 1670 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[Raphael Levy]], a Jewish resident of the city of [[Metz]] in [[France]], is burned at the stake after being accused of the September 25 abduction and ritual murder of a child who had disappeared from the village of [[Glatigny, Moselle|Glatigny]]. The prosecutor applies to King [[Louis XIV]] for an order expelling all 95 Jewish families from Metz, but the king refuses.
* [[January 27]] &ndash; The [[Islam|Muslim]] emperor [[Aurangzeb]] of the [[Mughal Empire]] in [[India]] issues an order for the destruction of all [[Hinduism|Hindu]] temples and schools in the empire, including the [[Krishna Janmasthan Temple Complex|Keshvadeva Temple]] in [[Mathura]]. 
* [[February 4]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Sinhagad]] takes place in [[India]] (in the modern-day [[Maharashtra]] state) as the [[Maratha Confederacy|Maratha Empire]] army, led by [[Tanaji Malusare]], leads an assault on the Kondhana Fortress that had been captured by the [[Mughal Empire]]. Tanaji, called "The Lion" by his followers, captures the fortress by guiding the successful scaling of the walls of the fortress with ladders created from rope, but is killed in the battle. The Maratha emperor [[Shivaji]] orders the fortress named [[Sinhagad]], the [[Marathi language]] words for "Lion's Fort". 
* [[February 9]] &ndash; [[Christian V of Denmark|Christian V]] becomes the [[Denmark-Norway|king of Denmark-Norway]] upon the death of his father, [[Frederick III of Denmark|Frederick III]].
* [[February 27]] &ndash; The royal wedding in Poland, between [[Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki|King Michal Wisniowiecki]] (who is also the [[Grand Duke of Lithuania]]) and [[Eleonore of Austria, Queen of Poland|Eleonore of Austria]] (daughter of the late [[Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor|Ferdinand III]], [[Holy Roman Emperor]]), with ceremonies taking place at the Denhoff Palace in [[Kruszyna, Silesian Voivodeship|Kruszyna]].
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Oliver Plunkett]], the Roman Catholic [[Archbishop of Armagh]] since 1669, is allowed to return to [[Ireland]] for the first time in more than 22 years, after a new policy of tolerance of Catholicism is enacted in England. Plunkett had departed for Rome in 1647 during the [[Cromwellian conquest of Ireland]]. Executed in 1681 on false charges of plotting an invasion of Ireland, Plunkett is canonized as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church in 1975.
* [[March 15]] &ndash; The first English settlers arrive at the modern-day U.S. state of [[South Carolina]], at this time the Province of Clarendon carved out of the [[Province of Carolina]], and construct a settlement at Albemarle Point on the [[Ashley River]].<ref>"'Shaftesbury's Darling': British Settlement in the Carolinas at the Close of the Seventeenth Century", by Robert M. Weir, in ''The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume I: The Origins of Empire'' (Oxford University Press, 1998) p. 380</ref>
* [[March 18]] &ndash; [[Petar Zrinski]], the [[Ban of Croatia|Viceroy of Croatia]] within the [[Holy Roman Empire]], issues a proclamation urging Croatians to rebel against the Habsburg rulers.<ref>Marcus Tanner, ''Croatia: A Nation Forged in War'' (Yale University Press, 2010)</ref> The uprising fails and Zrinski and his brother-in-law, Krsto Frankopan, are quickly arrested. Both are beheaded in Vienna on April 30, 1671.
* [[March 31]] &ndash; The British warship [[HMS Sapphire (1660)|HMS ''Sapphire'']] is wrecked beyond repair when her captain, John Pearce, orders the ship to be run aground at Sicily while fleeing what he believes to be four Algerian pirate ships, rather than attempting to fight. The ships turn out to have been friendly, and Pearce and his lieutenant, Andrew Logan, are court-martialed for their cowardice and executed on September 17.<ref>William Laird Clowes, The Royal Navy, A History from the Earliest Times to 1900 (Sampson, Low, Marston and Company Ltd., 1898) pp. 439-440</ref>