1603

Years:
1600 1601 1602 - 1603 - 1604 1605 1606

Decades:
1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s

Centuries:
16th century - 17th century - 18th century

1603 by topic:
Science - State leaders - Literature - Music

Events

March 24 - Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin King James VI of Scotland, uniting the crowns of Scotland and England
April 28 – Funeral of Elizabeth I of England in Westminster Abbey
June 29 - Original Globe Theatre burns
July 17 or July 19 - Sir Walter Raleigh arrested for treason.
July 25 - Coronation of James I of England. By some criteria this was the start of the modern Great Britain
November 17 - Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason in the converted Great Hall of Winchester Castle
December 20 - Mehmed III Sultan of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his son Ahmed I.

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.

January 27 - Harbottle Grimston, English politician (died 1685)
March 18 - Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate (died 1697)
March 18 - King John IV of Portugal (died 1656)
April 19 - Michel le Tellier, French statesman (died 1685)
June 17 - Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint (d. 1663)
July 11 - Kenelm Digby, English privateer and alchemist (died 1665)
August 17 - Lennart Torstenson, Swedish soldier and military engineer (died 1651)
November 16 - Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior of the Jasna Góra Monastery (died 1673)
December 21 - Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (d. 1684)
Louis Abelly, French monk and priest (died 1691)
Adam Adami, German archbishop and diplomat
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)
Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint (died 1663)
Axel Lillie, Swedish soldier and politician (died 1662)
Shackerley Marmion, English dramatist (died 1639)
Aernout van der Neer, Dutch painter (died 1677)
Adam Olearius, German scholar (died 1671)
Alexandre de Prouville, French stateman and soldier (died 1670)
Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer (died 1659)
Tokugawa Yorifusa, Japanese nobleman (died 1661)

January 15 - Catherine Carey, Chief Lady of the Bedchamber to Elizabeth I of England
February 23 - Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (born 1519)
March 24 - Queen Elizabeth I of England, Wales, and Ireland (born 1533)
March 25 - Ikoma Chikamasa, Japanese warlord (born 1526)
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 8 - Robert Catesby, English conspirator (b. 1573)
December 9 - William Watson, English conspirator (born 1559)
December 10 - William Gilbert, English scientist (plague) (born 1544)
December 13 - François Viète, French mathematician (born 1540)
December 22 - Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (born 1566)
December 27 - Thomas Cartwright, English Puritan clergyman
Peter Binsfeld, Bishop of Trier and witch-hunter (born 1545)
Pierre Charron, French philosopher (born 1541)
Baldassare Donato, Italian composer and singer (born 1525)
Edward Fenton, English navigator
Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (born 1539)
Ralph Lane, English explorer (born 1530)
Hugh Roe O'Donnell, Irish chieftain and rebel (born 1571)
Grace O'Malley, Irish noblewoman and pirate (born 1530)
Aleksander Ostrogski, Polish nobleman (born 1571)
Krzysztof Mikolaj Piorun Radziwill, Polish nobleman (born 1547)
Ikeda Tomomasa, Japanese kokujin and military commander (born 1544)