1703

Years: 1700 1701 1702 - 1703 - 1704 1705 1706
Decades: 1670s 1680s 1690s - 1700s - 1710s 1720s 1730s
Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century Template:C18YearInTopic

Events

February 2 - Earthquake in L'Aquila, Italy
February 4 - In Japan, the 47 samurai commit seppuku (ritual suicide)
February 14 - Earthquake in Norcia, Italy
April 21 - Company of Quenching of Fire (ie. fire brigade) founded in Edinburgh, Scotland
May 27 - Founding of St Petersburg in Russia.
May 26 - Portugal joins Grand Alliance
July 29-31 - Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet
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 ravages southern England and the English Channel, killing thousands
December 27 - Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England.

February 5 - Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader (d. 1764)
March 5 (N. S.) - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1768)
May 14 - David Brearly, delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (d. 1785)
June 17 - John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (d. 1791)
June 26 - Thomas Clap, first president of Yale University (d. 1767)
June 28 - John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (d. 1791)
August 2 - Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (d. 1775)
October 5 - Jonathan Edwards, American preacher (d. 1758)
October 28 - Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (d. 1768)
November 25 - Jean-François Séguier, French astronomer and botanist (d. 1784)
November 26 - Theophilus Cibber, English actor and writer (d. 1758)
December 2 - Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian explorer (d. 1759)
François Boucher, French painter (d. 1770)