1603

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1570s 1580s 1590s – 1600s – 1610s 1620s 1630s
Years:	1600 1601 1602 – 1603 – 1604 1605 1606

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King James I of England/VI of Scotland, the first monarch to rule the Kingdoms of England and Scotland at the same time.

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February 25 – Portuguese ship Santa Catarina was seized by Dutch East India Company ships off Singapore. The first permanent Dutch trading post in Indonesia was established in Banten.
March – Samuel de Champlain, French explorer, sails to Canada.
March 24 – Elizabeth I of England dies at Richmond Palace and is succeeded by her cousin's grandson, King James VI of Scotland, uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.
March 24 – Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yozei, and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan.
April 28 – The funeral of Elizabeth I of England is held in Westminster Abbey.

July 17 or July 19 – Sir Walter Raleigh is arrested for treason.
July 25 – James I of England is crowned.
August – Samuel de Champlain returns to France.
October – Sangley uprising takes place, ending in the massacre of 20,000 Chinese in Manila.^[1]
November 17 – Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason in the converted Great Hall of Winchester Castle.
December 22 – Sultan Mehmed III of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his son Ahmed I.

Johann Bayer's Uranometria, an atlas of the southern sky, is published.
The Accademia dei Lincei is founded.
Huguenot Pierre de Gua is granted royal permission to settle in North America.
A rebellion breaks out in Transylvania.
The English crush the Irish rebellion; Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone surrenders.
Yaqob is deposed as Emperor of Ethiopia by Za Sellase, who appoints his cousin Za Dengel to replace him.
The earliest of eight companies that would eventually merge to form the Kikkoman Corporation, the ubiquitous producers of soy sauce, is founded in Japan.

January 21 – 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 10 – Christian, Prince Elect of Denmark, Danish prince (d. 1647)
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 soldier and military engineer (d. 1651)
September 15 – Tokugawa Yorifusa, Japanese nobleman (d. 1661)
October 10 – Abel Janszoon Tasman, 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 (d. 1691)
- John Ashburnham, English Member of Parliament (d. 1671)
- Daniel Blagrave, English Member of Parliament (d. 1668)
- Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian (d. 1669)
- Valentin Conrart, one of the founders of the Académie française (d. 1675)
- Denis Gaultier, French lutenist and composer (d. 1672)
probable
- Aernout van der Neer, Dutch painter (d. 1677)
- Alexandre de Prouville, French statesman and soldier (d. 1670)

February 7 – Hermann Wilken, German humanist and mathematician (b. 1522)
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, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (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)
July 10 – Joan Terès i Borrull, viceroy of Catalonia (b. 1538)
September 8 – George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, 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 – Franciscus Vieta, 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
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- Gráinne O'Malley, Irish noblewoman and pirate (b. 1530)
- King Idris Alooma of the Kanem-Bornu Empire

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