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 – In Edo ( now Tokyo ), 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku ( ritual suicide ) as recompense for avenging their master's death.

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

* November 24 – Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader ( b. 1703 )

Architect Lorenzo Gafà ( 1638 – 1703 ), who worked on a number of churches in Malta including St. Paul's Cathedral in Mdina, was born in Birgu.

* April 5 – Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and scientist ( died 1703 )

* December 17 – Giuseppe Carcani, Italian composer ( b.? 1703 )

Frederik IV opened a new opera house in Copenhagen in 1703, the first performance being an opera by the Italian Bartolomeo Bernardi.

He even intended to establish something like a general society of Italian literature, and as early as 1703 published for this purpose, under the pseudonym " Lamindo Pritanio ", a plan Primi disegni della republica letteraria d ' Italia.

* April 5-Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and scientist ( died 1703 )

The recitative in his operas was always in German so the audience could follow the plot, but from Claudius in 1703 he began to include arias in Italian which allowed for florid vocal display.

Vincenzo Viviani ( April 5, 1622 – September 22, 1703 ) was an Italian mathematician and scientist.

Picturesque meaning literally " in the manner of a picture ; fit to be made into a picture " was a word used as early as 1703 ( Oxford English Dictionary ), and derived from an Italian term pittoresco, meaning, " in the manner of a painter ," William Gilpin's Essay on Prints ( 1768 ) defined picturesque as " ... a term expressive of that peculiar kind of beauty, which is agreeable in a picture " ( xii ).

* Gaetano Sabatini ( 1703 – 1734 ), Italian draftsman and painter

Corrado Giaquinto ( 18 February 1703 – 1765 ) was an Italian Rococo painter.

In 1699 Father Pinamonti ( d. 1703 ) published in Italian a short work on the Holy Heart of Mary, and in 1725, Joseph de Gallifet combined the cause of the Heart of Mary with that of the Heart of Jesus in order to obtain Rome's approbation of the two devotions and the institution of the two feasts.

( August 1, 1703 – November 24, 1775 ) was an Italian Jesuit, elected the 18th Superior General of the Society of Jesus.

In 1703, he published a satirical pamphlet against the High Tories and in favour of religious tolerance entitled The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters ; Or, Proposals for the Establishment of the Church.

* July 23 – Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader ( b. 1703 )

Here is an example of one of his religious translations from 1703, the Lord's Prayer:

The response of the Scottish Parliament was to pass a bill in 1703 requiring that, on the death of Queen Anne without issue, the three Estates of the Parliament were to appoint a Protestant successor from the descendants of the Scottish kings, but not the English successor unless various economic, political and religious conditions were met.

Due to scarcity of religious missionaries, the Franciscans again took over the administration of the settlement in 1703.

Gilbert Tennent ( February 5, 1703 – July 23, 1764 ) was a religious leader, born in County Armagh, Ireland.

The Catholic Charismatic Renewal as it exists today is the outgrowth from a retreat held from 17 to 19 February 1967 by several faculty members and students from Duquesne University, a Catholic university in Pittsburgh operated by the Congregation of the Holy Spirit ( a Catholic religious order founded in France in 1703 ).

From 1636 until 1703 under the Bishopric of Numbre de Jesus in Cebu, the religious network was so extensive that in the islands of Romblon churches were constructed in almost every villages that already existed that time.

Nevertheless, the century had a number of writers who were considered " libertine "; these authors ( like Théophile de Viau ( 1590 – 1626 ) and Charles de Saint-Evremond ( 1610 – 1703 )), inspired by Epicurus and the publication of Petronius, professed doubts of religious or moral matters during a period of increasingly reactionary religious fervor.