1603
Information about 1603
| 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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| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
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Events
January - June
- March - Samuel de Champlain, French explorer, sails to Canada.
- March 24 - Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin, King James I of England, uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.
- April 28 – Funeral of Elizabeth I of England in Westminster Abbey.
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
| Gregorian calendar | 1603 MDCIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2356 |
| Armenian calendar | 1052 ԹՎ ՌԾԲ |
| Bah' calendar | -241 – -240 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2147 |
| Chinese calendar | 4239/4299-7-17 (壬寅年七月十七日) — to — 4240/4300-6-25(癸卯年六月廿五日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1319 – 1320 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1595 – 1596 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5363 – 5364 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1658 – 1659 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1525 – 1526 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4704 – 4705 |
| Holocene calendar | 11603 |
| Iranian calendar | 981 – 982 |
| Islamic calendar | 1012 – 1013 |
| Japanese calendar | Keichō 0 (慶長0年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2263 (皇紀2263年) |
| Julian calendar | 1648 |
| Korean calendar | 3936 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2146 |
- January - 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 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
- Louis Abelly, French monk and priest (died 1691)
- John Ashburnham, English Member of Parliament (died 1671)
- Daniel Blagrave, English Member of Parliament (died 1668)
- Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian (died 1669)
- Valentin Conrart, one of the founders of the Académie française (died 1675)
- Denis Gaultier, French lutenist and composer (died 1672)
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- Aernout van der Neer, Dutch painter (died 1677)
- Alexandre de Prouville, French statesman and soldier (died 1670)
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
- 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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- Grace O'Malley, Irish noblewoman and pirate (b. 1530)
- Upper Paleolithic
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As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 through 1600.
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1500s
- 1500s: Mississippian culture disappears.
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As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th Century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700 in the Gregorian calendar.
The 17th Century falls into the Early Modern period of Europe and was characterized by the Baroque cultural movement and the beginning of
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The 18th Century lasted from 1701 through 1800 in the Gregorian calendar.
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list of decades which have articles with more information about them.
During the twentieth century, it became popular to look at that century's decades as historical entities in themselves.
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Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century
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Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
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Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century
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- Great Migration (Puritan)
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Twenty-first century
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15th century - 16th century - 17th century
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-1600- 1601 1602 1603 1604 . 1605 . 1606 . 1607 . 1608 . 1609 . 1610
In science: 1597 1598 1599 -1600- 1601 1602 1603
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In science: 1597 1598 1599 -1600- 1601 1602 1603
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-1600- 1601 . 1602 . 1603 1604 . 1605 . 1606 . 1607 . 1608 . 1609 .
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-1603- 1604 . 1605 . 1606 1607 . 1608 . 1609 . 1610 . 1611 . 1612 .
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- Ethiopia -
- Yaqob, Emperor of Ethiopia (1597-1603 and 1604-1606)
- Za Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (1603-1604)
Asia
- China (Ming Dynasty) - Wanli, Emperor of China (1573-1620)
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1602 colonial governors - Events of 1603 - 1604 colonial governors - Colonial governors by year
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Portugal
- Angola -
- João Rodrigues Coutinho, Governor of Angola (1602-1603)
- Manuel Cerveira Pereira, Governor of Angola (1603-1606)
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Roman numerals is a numeral system originating in ancient Rome, adapted from Etruscan numerals. The system used in classical antiquity was slightly modified in the Middle Ages to produce the system we use today. It is based on certain letters which are given values as numerals.
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This is the calendar for any common year starting on Wednesday (dominical letter E). Examples: Gregorian year 2003 or Julian year 1903 (see bottom tables).
(A common year is a year with 365 days — in other words, not a leap year, which has 366.
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(A common year is a year with 365 days — in other words, not a leap year, which has 366.
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Gregorian calendar is the most widely used calendar in the world. A modification of the Julian calendar, it was first proposed by the Calabrian doctor Aloysius Lilius, and was decreed by Pope Gregory XIII, for whom it was named, on 24 February 1582 via the papal bull
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