1603
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| Years: | 1600 1601 1602 - 1603 - 1604 1605 1606 |
Template:C17YearInTopicX 1603 (MDCIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events
[edit] January - June
- March - Samuel de Champlain, French explorer, sails to Canada.
- March 24 - Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin's grandson, King James I of England, uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.
- April 28 – Funeral of Elizabeth I of England in Westminster Abbey.
[edit] July - December
- July 17 or July 19 - Sir Walter Raleigh arrested for treason.
- July 25 - Coronation of James I of England.
- August - Samuel de Champlain returns to France
- November 17 - Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason in the converted Great Hall of Winchester Castle.
- December 22 - Mehmed III Sultan of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his son Ahmed I.
[edit] Undated
- Johann Bayer's Uranometria, an atlas of the southern sky, is published.
- Tokugawa Ieyasu granted title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan and establishes the Edo or Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan. This ends the Azuchi-Momoyama period and begins the Edo period.
- Accademia dei Lincei founded.
- Huguenot Pierre de Gua is granted royal permission to settle in North America.
- Rebellion in Transylvania.
- Plague in England.
- English crush Irish rebellion. Hugh O'Neill surrenders.
- Yaqob deposed as Emperor of Ethiopia by Za Sellase, who appoints his cousin Za Dengel to replace him.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1603 MDCIII
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| Ab urbe condita | 2356 |
| Armenian calendar | 1052 ԹՎ ՌԾԲ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -241 – -240 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2147 |
| Coptic calendar | 1319 – 1320 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1595 – 1596 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5363 – 5364 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1658 – 1659 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1525 – 1526 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4704 – 4705 |
| Holocene calendar | 11603 |
| Iranian calendar | 981 – 982 |
| Islamic calendar | 1011 – 1012 |
| Japanese calendar | Keichō
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| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2263 (皇紀2263年) |
| Julian calendar | 1648 |
| Korean calendar | 3936 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2146 |
- January - Shackerley Marmion, English dramatist (d. 1639)
- January 27 - Harbottle Grimston, English politician (d. 1685)
- March 18
- Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate (d. 1697)
- King John IV of Portugal (d. 1656)
- April 19 - Michel le Tellier, French statesman (d. 1685)
- June 17 - Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint (d. 1663)
- July 11 - Kenelm Digby, English privateer and alchemist (d. 1665)
- July 23 - Axel Lillie, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1662)
- August 16 - Adam Olearius, German scholar (d. 1671)
- August 17 - Lennart Torstenson,Dutch solidier and military engineer (d. 1651)
- September 15 - Tokugawa Yorifusa, Japanese nobleman (d. 1661)
- October 10 - Abel Janszoon Tasman, a Dutch seafarer and explorer (d. 1659)
- November 16 - Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior of the Jasna Góra Monastery (d. 1673)
- December 21 - Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (d. 1684)
- date unknown
- Louis Abelly, French monk and priest (died 1691)
- John Ashburnham, English Member of Parliament (died 1671)
- Daniel Blagrave, English Member of Parliament (died 1668)
- Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian (died 1669)
- Valentin Conrart, one of the founders of the Académie française (died 1675)
- Denis Gaultier, French lutenist and composer (died 1672)
- probable
- Aernout van der Neer, Dutch painter (died 1677)
- Alexandre de Prouville, French statesman and soldier (died 1670)
See also 1603 births.
[edit] Deaths
- January 15 - Catherine Carey, Lady in waiting to Elizabeth I of England
- February 23 - Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (b. 1519)
- March 24 - Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. 1533)
- March 25 - Ikoma Chikamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1526)
- April 25 – George Frederick (b. 1539)
- June - Baldassare Donato, Italian composer and singer (b. 1525)
- June 27 - Jan Dymitr Solikowski, Polish archbishop, writer, and diplomat (b. 1539)
- July 4 - Philippe de Monte, Flemish composer (b. 1521)
- September 8 - George Carey, English politician (b. 1547)
- November 16 - Pierre Charron, French philosopher (b. 1541)
- November 20 – Krzysztof Mikołaj "the Lightning" Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (b. 1547)
- December 9 - William Watson, English conspirator (b. 1559)
- December 10 - William Gilbert, English scientist (plague) (b. 1544)
- December 13 - François Viète, French mathematician (b. 1540)
- December 22 - Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (b. 1566)
- December 27 - Thomas Cartwright, English Puritan clergyman
- date unknown
- Edward Fenton, English navigator
- Ralph Lane, English explorer (b. 1530)
- Aleksander Ostrogski, Polish nobleman (b. 1571)
- Ikeda Tomomasa, Japanese military commander (b. 1544)
- Chen Lin, general of Ming Dynasty
- probable
- Grace O'Malley, Irish noblewoman and pirate (b. 1530)
See also 1603 deaths.
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