* 1503 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland.

* 1503 – Christian III of Denmark ( d. 1559 )

* 1503 – The Battle of Cerignola is fought.

Around 1503 – 1505 he produced the first seventeen of a set illustrating the Life of the Virgin, which he did not finish for some years.

* House of Bourbon ( 1268 – 1503 )

Coming from modest beginnings in Savona, Liguria, the family rose to prominence through nepotism and ambitious marriages arranged by two Della Rovere popes, Francesco della Rovere, who ruled as Pope Sixtus IV ( 1471 – 1484 ) and his nephew Giuliano ( Pope Julius II, 1503 – 1513 ).

* 1503 – Nostradamus, French astrologer ( d. 1566 )

* 1471 – Piero di Lorenzo de ' Medici, Italian ruler ( d. 1503 )

* 1503 – Disfida di Barletta – famous challenge between 13 Italian and 13 French knights near Barletta.

* 1466 – Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII of England ( d. 1503 )

* Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor ( 1503 – 1564 )

# Gumprecht ( 16 July 1503, Ansbach – 25 June 1528, Naples ), a canon in Bamberg.

* Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski ( 1503 – 1572 )

# Agnes ( b. Dresden, 7 January 1503 – d. Dresden, 16 April 1503 ).

Mai Ali Gazi ibn Dunama ( c. 1475 – 1503 ) defeated the Bilala, reestablishing complete control of Kanem.

* Ippolita Gonzaga ( 13 November 1503 – 16 March 1570 ), a nun.

* 1503 – Parmigianino, Italian artist ( d. 1540 )

* 1503 – Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer ( d. 1567 )

* 1503 – Anne of Bohemia and Hungary ( d. 1547 )

The Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci, oil on panel, 1503 – 19, probably completed while the artist was at the court of Francis I of France | Francis I.

Mona Lisa or La Gioconda ( 1503 – 1505 / 1507 )— Louvre, Paris, France

* 1446 – Margaret of York, wife of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy ( d. 1503 )

* Marietta de Patras ( died 1503 ), Greek mistress of King John II of Cyprus and the mother of his illegitimate son King James II of Cyprus

In 1503, she married James IV, King of Scots.

In May 1503, James IV confirmed her possession of lands and houses in Scotland, including Methven Castle, Stirling Castle, Doune Castle, Linlithgow Palace and Newark Castle in Ettrick Forest, with the incomes from the corresponding Earldom and Lordship lands.

In 1503, he helped escort Margaret Tudor north for her marriage to James IV of Scotland.

* James IV and Margaret Tudor in 1503

This was built by James IV following on from the completion of the King's Old Building in 1497, and was being plastered by 1503.

In 1501 he was involved in the negotiations for Catherine of Aragon's marriage to Arthur, Prince of Wales, and in 1503 conducted Margaret Tudor to Scotland for her wedding to King James IV.

The marriage itself did not take place until 1503, just a century before the accession of James I.

* 1503: Caithness: Separated from the sheriffdom of Inverness by act of 1503 during the reign of James IV.

It is not known exactly when the crown was originally made, but it can be seen in its pre-1540 form in the famous portrait of James IV of Scotland in the Book of Hours that was created for his marriage to Margaret Tudor in 1503.

The next creation was in 1503 for James Hamilton, 2nd Lord Hamilton.

* James Henryson of Fordell: 1494 – 1503

* James Livingston, 3rd Lord Livingston ( d. 1503 )

In August 1503, James IV, King of Scots, married Margaret Tudor, eldest daughter of Henry VII of England, and the spirit of the new age was celebrated by the poet William Dunbar in The Thistle and the Rose.

His son, James Hamilton, 2nd Lord Hamilton was created Earl of Arran in 1503.

James IV visited Bothwell in 1503 and 1504.

This event was the result of an event in August 1503: James IV, King of Scots, married Margaret Tudor, the eldest daughter of Henry VII of England as a consequence of the Treaty of Perpetual Peace, concluded the previous year which, in theory, ended centuries of English-Scottish rivalry.

Records show that in 1503 James IV of Scotland established a flock of 5, 000 Scottish Blackface Sheep in Ettrick Forest in the area south of Peebles in the Borders.

In the legislation of the Scots Parliaments of 1493 and 1503 requiring all seaboard burghs to keep " busches " of 20 tons to be manned by idle able-bodied men, James and the Estates had not only the improvement of the fisheries in view, but the manning of the mercantile marine and the navy.

Margaret Tudor, the bride of King James IV of Scots, stayed here as the guest of the Earl of Morton before her formal entry to Edinburgh in 1503.

In 1503 Princess Margaret, eldest daughter of Henry VII of England stayed two days at the friary on her way to join her new husband James IV of Scotland.

* James ( 1486 – 1503 )