1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1970th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 970th year of the 2nd millennium, the 70th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1970s decade.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1970 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1970
MCMLXX
Ab urbe condita2723
Armenian calendar1419
ԹՎ ՌՆԺԹ
Assyrian calendar6720
Baháʼí calendar126–127
Balinese saka calendar1891–1892
Bengali calendar1377
Berber calendar2920
British Regnal year18 Eliz. 2 – 19 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2514
Burmese calendar1332
Byzantine calendar7478–7479
Chinese calendar己酉年 (Earth Rooster)
4667 or 4460
    — to —
庚戌年 (Metal Dog)
4668 or 4461
Coptic calendar1686–1687
Discordian calendar3136
Ethiopian calendar1962–1963
Hebrew calendar5730–5731
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2026–2027
 - Shaka Samvat1891–1892
 - Kali Yuga5070–5071
Holocene calendar11970
Igbo calendar970–971
Iranian calendar1348–1349
Islamic calendar1389–1390
Japanese calendarShōwa 45
(昭和45年)
Javanese calendar1901–1902
Juche calendar59
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4303
Minguo calendarROC 59
民國59年
Nanakshahi calendar502
Thai solar calendar2513
Tibetan calendar阴土鸡年
(female Earth-Rooster)
2096 or 1715 or 943
    — to —
阳金狗年
(male Iron-Dog)
2097 or 1716 or 944
Unix time0 – 31535999

Events

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January

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February

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February 11: Ohsumi (satellite) launched

March

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April

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June

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July

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August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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Date unknown

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World population

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World population
1970 1965 1975
World 3,692,492,000 3,334,874,000   357,618,000 4,068,109,000   375,617,000
Africa 357,283,000 313,744,000   43,539,000 408,160,000   50,877,000
Asia 2,143,118,000 1,899,424,000   243,694,000 2,397,512,000   254,394,000
Europe 655,855,000 634,026,000   21,829,000 675,542,000   19,687,000
Latin America 284,856,000 250,452,000   34,404,000 321,906,000   37,050,000
North America 231,937,000 219,570,000   12,367,000 243,425,000   11,488,000
Oceania 19,443,000 17,657,000   1,786,000 21,564,000   2,121,000

Births

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Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December
 
Lara Fabian
 
Warwick Davis
 
Shane McMahon
 
Simon Pegg
 
Julie Bowen
 
Aleksandar Vučić
 
Redman
 
Rachel Weisz
 
Queen Latifah
 
Gianni Infantino
 
Elizabeth Mitchell
 
Vince Vaughn
 
Alenka Bratušek
 
Barry Pepper
 
Andrej Plenković
 
Q-Tip
 
Jason Lee
 
Melania Trump
 
Andre Agassi
 
Uma Thurman
 
Will Arnett
 
Ghostface Killah
 
Tina Fey
 
Naomi Campbell
 
Gabby Giffords
 
Cafu
 
Will Forte
 
Paul Thomas Anderson
 
Sean Hayes
 
Chris O'Donnell
 
Nick Offerman
 
Audra McDonald
 
Beck
 
Justin Chambers
 
Nicola Sturgeon
 
Christopher Nolan
 
Alan Shearer
 
Anthony Anderson
 
Fred Durst
 
Cathy Weseluck
 
River Phoenix
 
Claudia Schiffer
 
Melissa McCarthy
 
Queen Rania of Jordan
 
Darren Gough
 
Hwang Jung-min
 
Taraji P. Henson
 
Tony Hale
 
Nicole Ari Parker
 
Matt Damon
 
Sadiq Khan
 
Javier Milei
 
Chavo Guerrero Jr.
 
Xie Jun
 
Ethan Hawke
 
Chris Jericho
 
Martha Plimpton
 
Sarah Silverman
 
Édouard Philippe
 
Mädchen Amick
 
Jennifer Connelly

January

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February

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March

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April

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June

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July

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August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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Deaths

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January–February

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Max Born
 
Fritz Bayerlein

March

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Heinrich Brüning

April

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Ed Begley
 
Inger Stevens
 
Nelly Sachs
 
Terry Sawchuk

June

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Sukarno

July

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Bjarni Benediktsson

August

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Otto Heinrich Warburg

September

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Jimi Hendrix
 
Gamal Abdel Nasser

October

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Janis Joplin

November

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Charles de Gaulle
 
Yukio Mishima

December

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William Slim

Nobel Prizes

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