* 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 )

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 )

* 1503: Spain defeats France at the Battle of Cerignola.

An example of where this formation was used and succeeded is the decisive Battle of Cerignola ( 1503 ), which was one of the first battles to utilise this formation, and was the first battle to be won through the use of gunpowder-based small arms.

By 1503 Louis, having been defeated at the Battle of Cerignola and Battle of Garigliano, was forced to withdraw from Naples, which was left under the control of a Spanish viceroy, General de Córdoba.

The Battle of Garigliano ( 1503 )

Great Duchy of Moscow conquered Bryansk following the Battle of Vedrosha in 1503.

The Grand Duchy of Moscow conquered Bryansk following the Battle of Vedrosha in 1503.

The Battle of Modon took place in August 1500 during the war of 1499 – 1503 between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice.

Italian Renaissance painting saw a great increase in military art by the leading artists, battle paintings often featuring near-contemporary scenes such as the huge set of three canvases of The Battle of San Romano ( c. 1445 ) by Paolo Uccello, and the abortive Battle of Cascina ( 1504 – 06 ) by Michelangelo and Battle of Anghiari by Leonardo da Vinci ( 1503 – 06 ), which were intended to be placed opposite each other in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, but neither of which were completed.

By 1503, Louis, having been defeated at the Battle of Cerignola and Battle of the Garigliano, was forced to withdraw from Naples, which was left under the control of the Spanish viceroy, Ramon de Cardona.

Perhaps the most famous occurred in 1503 when Consalvo of Cordova defeated the French army under the command of the Duke of Nemours, an action known as the Battle of the Garigliano.

The Battle of the Vedrosha River was a battle in the course of the Russo-Lithuanian war of 1500 – 1503 which ended with a decisive Russian victory and proved to be of strategic significance.

Muscovy obtained the area following the Battle of Vedrosha in 1503, but had to return it back to Poland after the Time of Troubles.

In 1503, hired by Ferdinand II of Spain, he was determinant in the victory at the Battle of Garigliano over the French army, which started the Spanish domination over southern Italy.

The Battle of Cerignola was fought on April 28, 1503, between Spanish and French armies, in Cerignola, near Bari in Southern Italy.

In the mid-15th century the town passed to the Great Duchy of Lithuania, which had to surrender it to Ivan III following the Battle of Vedrosha in 1503.

Cerignola 1503

Cerignola 1503

Cerignola 1503

The first such recorded example is that of Ludovico di Varthema of Bologna in 1503.

* 1503: Foundation of the Sultanate of Sennar by Amara Dunqas, in what is modern Sudan

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It is definitely sighted and named on May 20 1503 ( Feast of the Ascension ) by Afonso de Albuquerque.

It is likely that he first became a mercenary and marched with the French army to Italy, where he fought in the battle of Garigliano on 28 December 1503.

The painting, thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, is in oil on a poplar panel, and is believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506.

The margin note states that Leonardo was at that time working on a painting of Lisa del Giocondo and is dated October 1503.

According to the ICTR's Completion Strategy, in accordance with Security Council Resolution 1503, all first-instance cases were to have completed trial by the end of 2008 ( this date was later extended to the end of 2009 ) and all work is to be completed by 2010.

The earliest surviving written Lithuanian text is a translation dating from about 1503 – 1525 of the Lord's Prayer, the Hail Mary, and the Nicene Creed written in the Southern Aukštaitijan dialect.

The Harris County Public Library Octavia Fields Branch Library is located at 1503 South Houston Avenue in Humble.

An example of an early grammar school founded by a medieval borough corporation unconnected with church or university is Bridgnorth Grammar School, founded in 1503 by Bridgnorth Borough Corporation.

The earliest reference to the Saint Andrew's Cross as a flag is to be found in the Vienna Book of Hours, circa 1503, where a white saltire is depicted with a red background.

An edition from Lyons in 1503 is illustrated with 140 woodcuts.

On November 9, 1503, Vladislav, King of Hungary wrote to the Doge of Venice: " The voivode of Moldavia is tormented by an old illness.

Grünewald's first dated painting is probably in Munich, dated 1503 on a much later note which apparently records an older inscription.

It is a popular tourist destination today, where there are a well-preserved old quarter, the Borgo Medievale, with mediaeval streets and small squares, and the Forte Sangallo, a castle built in 1503

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.

After acquiring the strong coloring and other distinctive stylistic features of the Lombard school and — though he is not known to have travelled to Milan — somehow absorbing the superficial mannerisms of Leonardo ( Freedberg 1993: 117 ), he traveled to Siena before 1503, perhaps at the behest of agents of the Spannocchi family, and began with fresco cycles for Olivetan monks and a series of small Ovidian ceiling panels and a frieze depicting the career of Julius Caesar for Sigismondo Chigi at Palazzo Chigi.

Pope Alexander VI is generally believed to have died in Rome in 1503 after contracting malaria.

At the death of the second Duke, the 1503 earldom became dormant ( i. e., it was unclaimed ), while the 1643 earldom descended along with the dukedom, with which it is still united.

The station used the frequencies of 94. 6MHz and 104. 1MHz FM, 1503 kHz Mediumwave, and is also available on the UTV-Bauer DAB Digital Radio Multiplex, and online.