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Year 1703 (MDCCIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). 1703 of the Swedish calendar was a common year starting on Wednesday, one day ahead of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1703

January - June

February 2 - An earthquake hits the town of L'Aquila, Italy.
February 4 - In Japan, the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku, a ritual suicide.
February 14 - An earthquake hits Norcia, Italy.
February - Soldiers at Fort Louis de la Mobile celebrate Mardi Gras in Mobile, starting the tradition for Mobile, Alabama.
April 21 - Company of Quenching of Fire (for example, a fire brigade) founded in Edinburgh, Scotland.
May 27 - Founding of Saint Petersburg in Russia.
May 26 - Portugal joins the Grand Alliance.

July - December

July 29-31 - Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory then imprisoned 4 months for the crime of seditious libel, after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet (his release is granted mid-November).

September 12 - War of the Spanish Succession – Habsburg Archduke Charles proclaimed King of Spain.

October - A whirlwind blows down the tower of the Gan Takal in Gondar, capital of Ethiopia, killing 30.

November 19 - Unknown masked prisoner dies in Bastille.

November 24 to December 2 - the Great Storm of 1703, an Atlantic hurricane, ravages southern England and the English Channel, killing nearly 8000, mostly at sea.

December 27 - Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England.

Undated

A Tale of a Tub, first major satire by Jonathan Swift, is published.

George Psalmanazar arrives in London.

Isaac Newton becomes the chairman of the Royal Society.

Ahmed III (1703-1730) succeeds Mustafa II (1695-1703) as emperor of the Ottoman Empire.

Rebellion of Hungarians under Prince Francis II Rákóczi.

Births

February 5 - Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader (died 1764)

March 5 (N. S.) - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (died 1768)

May 14 - David Brearly, delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (died 1785)

June 17 - John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (died 1791)

June 26 - Thomas Clap, first president of Yale University (died 1767)

August 2 - Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (died 1775)

September 29 - François Boucher, French painter (died 1770)

October 5 - Jonathan Edwards, American preacher (died 1758)

October 28 - Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (died 1768)

November 25 - Jean-François Séguier, French astronomer and botanist (died 1784)

November 26 - Theophilus Cibber, English actor and writer (died 1758)

December 2 - Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian explorer (died 1759) � See also .

Deaths

January 11 - Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (born 1632)

March 3 - Robert Hooke, English scientist (born 1635)

March 31 - Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (born 1642)

April 20 - Lancelot Addison, English royal chaplain (born 1632)

May 16 - Charles Perrault, French author (born 1628)

May 26 - Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (born 1633)

June 14 - Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (born 1625)

July 17 - Roemer Vlacq I, Dutch naval captain (born 1637)

September 22 - Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and scientist (born 1622)

September 25 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (born 1658)

September 29 - Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier (born 1610)

October 28 - John Wallis, English mathematician (born 1616)

November 19 - The Man in the Iron Mask

November 30 - Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer (born 1672)

December 28 - Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (born 1664)

date unknown - Phetracha, king of Ayutthaya (born 1632) � See also .

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