1703

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

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.

[edit] Events of 1703

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 in mid-November).
September 12 - War of the Spanish Succession - Habsburg Archduke Charles is proclaimed King of Spain.
October - A whirlwind blows down the tower of the Gan Takal in Gondar, capital of Ethiopia, killing 30.
November 19 - The The Man in the Iron Mask dies in the Bastille.
November 24 to December 2 - The Great Storm of 1703, an Atlantic hurricane, ravages southern England and the English Channel, killing nearly 8,000, mostly at sea.
December 27 - Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty, which gives preference to Portuguese wines imported 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)
August 2 - Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (d. 1775)
September 29 - François Boucher, French painter (d. 1770)
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)

See also Category: 1703 births.

January 11 - Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (b. 1632)
March 3 - Robert Hooke, English scientist (b. 1635)
March 31 - Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (b. 1642)
April 20 - Lancelot Addison, English royal chaplain (b. 1632)
May 16 - Charles Perrault, French author (b. 1628)
May 26 - Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (b. 1633)
June 14 - Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (b. 1625)
July 17 - Roemer Vlacq I, Dutch naval captain (b. 1637)
September 22 - Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and scientist (b. 1622)
September 25 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (b. 1658)
September 29 - Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier (b. 1610)
October 28 - John Wallis, English mathematician (b. 1616)
November 19 - The Man in the Iron Mask
November 30 - Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer (b. 1672)
December 28 - Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1664)
date unknown - Phetracha, king of Ayutthaya (b. 1632)

See also Category: 1703 deaths.

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