1603
| 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 |
| 1603 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – |
| Art – Literature – Music – Science |
| Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Births – Deaths – Works |
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).
Contents |
Events
King James I of England/VI of Scotland, the first monarch to rule the Kingdoms of England and Scotland at the same time
January–June
- February 25 – Portuguese ship Santa Catarina was seized by Dutch East India Company ships off Singapore.
- 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–December
- 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.
- 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.
Undated
- 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 Black Death breaks out in England.
- The English crush the Irish rebellion; Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone surrenders.
- Famine in Russia
- 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.
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1603 MDCIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2356 |
| Armenian calendar | 1052 ԹՎ ՌԾԲ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -241 – -240 |
| Bengali calendar | 1010 |
| Berber calendar | 2553 |
| 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 | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1659 – 1660 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1525 – 1526 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4704 – 4705 |
| Holocene calendar | 11603 |
| Iranian calendar | 981 – 982 |
| Islamic calendar | 1011 – 1012 |
| Japanese calendar | Keichō 8 (慶長8年) |
| Korean calendar | 3936 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2146 |
- January – Shackerley Marmion, English dramatist (d. 1639)
- January 27 – Harbottle Grimston, English politician (d. 1685)
- March 18
- 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
See also Category:1603 births.
Deaths
- 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 – 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
- probable
- Grace O'Malley, Irish noblewoman and pirate (b. 1530)
- King Idris Alooma of the Kanem-Bornu Empire
See also Category:1603 deaths.