* 1703 – Lorenzo Ricci, Italian religious leader, 18th Superior General of the Society of Jesus ( d. 1775 )

He succeeded to the throne in 1703 on the abdication of his brother Mustafa II ( 1695 – 1703 ).

* Alexander V of Imereti ( c. 1703 / 4 – 1752 )

* 1703 – Lancelot Addison, English chaplain ( b. 1632 )

They were considered a Catholic innovation, not widely practiced until the 18th century, and were opposed vigorously in worship by a number of Protestant Reformers, including Martin Luther ( 1483 – 1546 ), John Calvin ( 1509 – 1564 ) and John Wesley ( 1703 – 1791 ).

He was the son of sultan Ahmed III ( 1703 – 30 ) and succeeded his brother Mustafa III ( 1757 – 74 ) on January 21, 1774.

Early collections of English ballads were made by Samuel Pepys ( 1633 – 1703 ) and in the Roxburghe Ballads collected by Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer ( 1661 – 1724 ).

The first Icelandic census took place in 1703, following upon the first Danish census of 1700 – 1701.

:* John Churchill, Marquess of Blandford ( 1686 – 1703 ), elder son of the 1st Duke, died unmarried

* 1642 – Johann Christoph Bach, German composer ( d. 1703 )

* 1703 – Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian explorer ( d. 1759 )

* 1703 – Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England.

He overcame the opposition, and went to learn from François Boucher ( 1703 – 1770 ), the leading painter of the time, who was also a distant relative.

Carte de la Guyane françoise et l ' isle de Cayenne effectuée en 1793 par Jacques-Nicolas Bellin ( 1703 – 1772 ) un cartographe affecté au ministère de la Marine française.

* 1633 – Samuel Pepys, English naval administrator and man of letters, posthumously famous as a diarist ( d. 1703 )

* 1703 – Shah Waliullah, Islamic Scholar and Reformer ( d. 1762 )

* 1664 – Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan ( d. 1703 )

* 1703 – Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader ( d. 1764 )

* 1703 12 February – The Archduke Charles was proclaimed king of Castile and Aragon in Vienna.

The Revenge of the 47 Ronin, Edo 1703 ; Osprey Raid Series # 23, Osprey Publishing.

In 1703, Danjūrō I wrote and starred in another play specifically about the Fudō at Shinshō-ji, The Avatars of the Fudō of Narita Temple, whose opening was timed to coincide with the traveling exhibit ( 出開帳 degaichō ) of sacred images from Narita-san in Edo.

In January 1703 ( by the old Japanese calendar, December 14 ) he, with 46 other Akō ronin, attacked Kira at his residence in the Honjo neighborhood of Edo.

In November 1703, a hurricane-like storm hit London, now known as The Great Storm.

Samuel Pepys FRS, MP, JP, (; 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703 ) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man.

In 1703 the area between the Oxoboxo River and Norwich ( now part of the town of Montville ) was annexed by New London.

Predating the incorporation of Sayreville in 1703, the Morgan Inn-later known as the Old Spye Inn-was established in what is now the Morgan section of Sayreville.

By now Marshal Villeroi had replaced Boufflers as commander in the Spanish Netherlands, but although Marlborough was able to take Bonn, Huy, and Limbourg in 1703, continuing Dutch hesitancy prevented him from bringing the French to a decisive battle.

This support wilted somewhat following the Allies ' recent campaign, but the Duke, whose diplomatic tact had held together a very discordant Grand Alliance, was now a general of international repute, and the limited success of 1703 was soon eclipsed by the Blenheim campaign.

Coins of 1703 ( Queen Anne ) have the word VIGO under the Queen's head, indicating that the gold was captured from Spanish galleons in the Battle of Vigo Bay in October 1702, but very few of these coins now remain in existence and they are extremely valuable ( up to £ 50, 000 ).

The principal monuments in the kremlin are the Cathedral of St. Sophia ( 1683 – 1686 ), a merchant courtyard ( 1703 – 1705 ), an episcopal palace ( 1773 – 1775 ; now a museum of local lore ), and the so-called Swedish Chamber, with six baroque halls ( 1713 – 1716 ).

During the Great Northern War ( 1700 – 1721 ) the territory of what is now Leningrad Oblast was returned from Sweden by Russia under Peter the Great, who founded Saint Petersburg amidst the land in 1703, which soon became the capital of the Russian Empire.

* The Presidio San Juan Bautista del Río Grande, founded around 1703 in San Juan Bautista, now the present day Guerrero, Coahuila

In 1703 a large cross was placed by Spanish friar Margil de Jesus at the highest point of Chirinagua in the western edge of the city, now called Cerro de la Cruz.

In the early days of New York City, the entire area north of 23rd Street and west of what is now Eighth Avenue was known as Bloomingdale and consisted of farms and villages along a road ( regularized in 1703 ) known as the Bloomingdale Road.

* Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil ( c. 1643 – 1725 ), Governor-general of New France ( now Canada ) from 1703 to 1725

Thanks to de Bruijn's short stopover in Nizhny Novgorod during the Easter holidays, we now have his description of that major center of the Russian Volga trade as it existed in 1703, with its Kremlin, stone churches, and a lively bar ( kabak ) scene.

In 1703 ( other sources say 1658 ), the Sultanate of Sulu received North Borneo from the Sultan of Brunei, after Sulu sent aid against a rebellion in Brunei.

Later ( in 1703 ), Portugal, Savoy and some German states joined the alliance.

A youthful exercise in Augustan heroic couplets by Thomas Cooke ( 1703 – 1756 ), employing the Roman names for all the gods.

This period gave way to the highly significant Köprülü Era ( 1656 – 1703 ), during which effective control of the Empire was exercised by a sequence of Grand Viziers from the Köprülü family.

* Robert Morris ( writer ) ( 1703 – 1754 ), English writer on architecture

Along with the inventor and microscopist Robert Hooke ( 1635 – 1703 ), Sir Christopher Wren ( 1632 – 1723 ) and Sir Isaac Newton ( 1642 – 1727 ), English scientist and astronomer Edmond Halley ( 1656 – 1742 ) was trying to develop a mechanical explanation for planetary motion.

He had a great influence on later painters, including François Boucher ( 1703 – 1770 ) and Jean-Honoré Fragonard ( 1732 – 1806 ), two masters of the late period.

* Jonathan Edwards ( theologian ) ( 1703 – 1758 ), American preacher and theologian and president of Princeton University

* Nicolas de Grigny ( 1672 – 1703 ), organist and composer

* Robert Hooke ( 1635 – 1703 ), English natural philosopher who discovered Hooke's law

For their ideas on derivatives, both Newton and Leibniz built on significant earlier work by mathematicians such as Isaac Barrow ( 1630 – 1677 ), René Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ), Christiaan Huygens ( 1629 – 1695 ), Blaise Pascal ( 1623 – 1662 ) and John Wallis ( 1616 – 1703 ).

* Katherine Walpole, ( 13 May 1703 – 22 October 1722 ), who died unmarried at Bath, Somerset.

Jonathan Edwards, born on October 5, 1703, was the son of Timothy Edwards ( 1668 – 1759 ), a minister at East Windsor, Connecticut ( modern day South Windsor ), who eked out his salary by tutoring boys for college.

Shortly after the Peace of Ryswick ( 1697 ), the English and Germans abolished the pike and introduced ring bayonets ; and plates of them are given in Surirey de St. Remy's Mémoires d ' Artillerie, published in Paris in that year ; but owing to a military cabal they were not issued to the French infantry until 1703, using a spring-loaded locking system to prevent the bayonet from accidentally separating from the musket.

* Marie Leszczyńska ( 1703 – 1768 ), consort of Louis XV,

The prospect of Marie's eventual succession to the Swiss principality of Neuchâtel, near Savoy, was foiled in 1643 by the king's decision to legitimate Louis Henri de Bourbon, chevalier de Soissons ( 1640 – 1703 ), a son of Marie's late brother.

The prospect of Marie's eventual succession to the Swiss principality of Neuchâtel, near Savoy, was foiled in 1643 by the king's decision to legitimate Louis Henri de Bourbon, chevalier de Soissons ( 1640 – 1703 ), a son of Marie's late brother.