1603
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This article is about the year 1603.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| 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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| Gregorian calendar | 1603 MDCIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2356 |
| Armenian calendar | 1052 ԹՎ ՌԾԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6353 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -241–-240 |
| Bengali calendar | 1010 |
| Berber calendar | 2553 |
| English Regnal year | 45 Eliz. 1 – 1 Ja. 1 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2147 |
| Burmese calendar | 965 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7111–7112 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬寅年十一月二十日 (4239/4299-11-20) — to —
癸卯年十一月廿九日(4240/4300-11-29) |
| Coptic calendar | 1319–1320 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1595–1596 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5363–5364 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1659–1660 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1525–1526 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4704–4705 |
| Holocene calendar | 11603 |
| Igbo calendar | |
| - Ǹrí Ìgbò | 603–604 |
| Iranian calendar | 981–982 |
| Islamic calendar | 1011–1012 |
| Japanese calendar | Keichō 8 (慶長8年) |
| Juche calendar | N/A (before 1912) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 10 days |
| Korean calendar | 3936 |
| Minguo calendar | 309 before ROC 民前309年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2146 |
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Year 1603 (MDCIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar.
Events [edit]
January–June [edit]
- February 25 – The Portuguese ship Santa Catarina is seized by Dutch East India Company ships off Singapore. The first permanent Dutch trading post in Indonesia is established in Banten.
- March – French explorer Samuel Champlain sails to Canada.
- March 24 – Queen 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.[1]
- March 24 – Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yozei, and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan. Start of the 265-year-long Edo period.
- March 31 – The Nine Years War (Ireland) is ended by the submission of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, to the English Crown and the signing of the Treaty of Mellifont.
- April 28 – The funeral of Elizabeth I of England is held in Westminster Abbey.
July–December [edit]
- July 17 or July 19 – Sir Walter Ralegh is arrested for treason.
- July 25 – James I is crowned as King of England in Westminster Abbey.[1]
- September 20 – Samuel Champlain arrives back in France.[2]
- October – Sangley Rebellion takes place, ending in the massacre of 20,000 Sangley Chinese in Manila.[3]
- November 17 – Sir Walter Ralegh goes on trial for treason in the converted Great Hall of Winchester Castle.[1]
- December 22 – Ottoman Dynasty: Sultan Mehmed III of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his son Ahmed I.
Ongoing events [edit]
Date unknown [edit]
- A rebellion breaks out in Transylvania.
- French Huguenot Pierre de Gua is granted royal permission to settle in North America, founding the colony of Acadia.
- Yaqob is deposed as Emperor of Ethiopia by Za Sellase, who appoints his cousin Za Dengel to replace him.
- Johann Bayer publishes the star atlas Uranometria, the first to cover the entire celestial sphere.[4]
- The Accademia dei Lincei, the oldest scientific academy in the world, is founded in Rome by Federico Cesi.
- The earliest of eight companies that would eventually merge to form the Kikkoman Corporation, the ubiquitous producers of soy sauce, is founded in Japan.
Births [edit]
- 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 9 – Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian (d. 1669)
- 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)
- 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)
Deaths [edit]
- 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)
- October – Ralph Lane, English explorer (b. 1530)
- 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
- Aleksander Ostrogski, Polish nobleman (b. 1571)
- Ikeda Tomomasa, Japanese military commander (b. 1544)
- Chen Lin, general of Ming Dynasty
- probable
- Gráinne O'Malley, Irish noblewoman and pirate (b. 1530)
- King Idris Alooma of the Kanem-Bornu Empire
References [edit]
- ^ a b c Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ Des Sauvages: ou voyage de Samuel Champlain, de Brouages, faite en la France nouvelle l'an 1603.
- ^ http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~borao/2Profesores/massacre.pdf
- ^ Asimov, Isaac. Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (2nd ed.).
