1603

About 1603


'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
January - June
July - December
Undated
Births
Deaths

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


★ 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



★ January - Shackerley Marmion, English dramatist (d. 1639)

★ January 27 - Harbottle Grimston, English politician (d. 1685)

★ March 18

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★ Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate (d. 1697)

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★ 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''

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★ Louis Abelly, French monk and priest (died 1691)

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★ John Ashburnham, English Member of Parliament (died 1671)

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★ Daniel Blagrave, English Member of Parliament (died 1668)

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★ Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian (died 1669)

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★ Valentin Conrart, one of the founders of the Académie française (died 1675)

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★ Denis Gaultier, French lutenist and composer (died 1672)

★ ''probable''

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★ Aernout van der Neer, Dutch painter (died 1677)

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★ Alexandre de Prouville, French statesman and soldier (died 1670)
''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''

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★ Edward Fenton, English navigator

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★ Ralph Lane, English explorer (b. 1530)

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★ Aleksander Ostrogski, Polish nobleman (b. 1571)

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★ Ikeda Tomomasa, Japanese military commander (b. 1544)

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★ Chen Lin, general of Ming Dynasty

★ ''probable''

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★ Grace O'Malley, Irish noblewoman and pirate (b. 1530)
''See also .''

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