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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).
Events
January - June
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.
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, 2nd Earl of Tyrone surrenders.
Yaqob deposed as Emperor of Ethiopia by Za Sellase, who appoints his cousin Za Dengel to replace him.
Births
January - Shackerley Marmion, English dramatist (d. 1639)
January 27 - Harbottle Grimston, English politician (d. 1685)
March 18
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
probable
See also .
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, 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)
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 - François Viète, French mathematician (b. 1540)
December 22 - Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (b. 1566)
December 27 - Thomas Cartwright, English Puritan clergyman
date unknown
probable
See also .
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