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* 1703 – The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, reaches its peak intensity which it maintains through November 27.
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* 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 – 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.
1703 and Great
Within a week of his release from prison, Defoe witnessed the Great Storm of 1703 which raged from 26 to 27 November.
In November 1703, a hurricane-like storm hit London, now known as The Great Storm.
* 1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
* 1703 – The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.
* 1703: Saint Petersburg founded by Peter the Great.
November 24: Great Storm of 1703
* November 24 – December 2 – The Great Storm of 1703, an Atlantic hurricane, ravages southern England and the English Channel, killing nearly 8, 000, mostly at sea.
* Daniel Defoe documents the Great Storm of 1703 with eyewitness testimonies in The Storm ( 1704 ).
After the Great Storm of 1703, Anne declared a general fast to implore God " to pardon the crying sins of this nation which had drawn down this sad judgement ".
In 1703, from 26 November to 1 December, the Great Storm raged across southern England ; the abbey lost the south transept window which was replaced in wood at a cost of £ 40.
The southwest tower suffered major damage in the Great Storm of 1703 and by 1720, was in a state of collapse.
* Saint Petersburg was built by Peter the Great as a planned capital city starting in 1703.
Winstanley's tower lasted until the Great Storm of 1703 erased almost all trace on 27 November.
In 1703 Peter the Great had founded his new capital, Saint Petersburg, in the furthest-flung corner of the Gulf of Finland.
It was rebuilt afterwards, but destroyed again in 1703 during the Great Northern War by the Russian army and left in a ruined state.
Saint Petersburg was built by Peter the Great as a planned capital city starting in 1703.
From 1721 – 1812 the isthmus belonged to the Russian Empire, won in the Great Northern War that started with the Russian conquest of Ingria where the new imperial capital, Saint Petersburg, was founded ( 1703 ) in the southern end of the isthmus, in place of old Swedish town Nyenskans.
A century later Russia reconquered the area, providing an opportunity for Peter the Great to lay the foundations of his new capital, Saint Petersburg, in 1703.
** The Storm: or, a collection of the most remarkable casualties and disasters which happen'd in the late dreadful tempest, both by sea and land ( re Great Storm of 1703 )
* 1703, December 7, Great Storm of 1703, England, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany, many thousands of deaths
1703 and Storm
* Daniel Defoe documents the Great Storm of 1703 with eyewitness testimonies in The Storm ( London ).
* November 24 – December 2-The Great Storm of 1703, an Atlantic hurricane, ravages southern England and the English Channel, killing nearly 8000, mostly at sea.
In the Great Storm of 1703, about 4000 oak trees were lost.
She was rebuilt in 1701 and was wrecked in the Great Storm of 1703.
In the Great Storm of 1703 at least 13 men-of-war and 40 merchant vessels were wrecked in the Downs, with the loss of 2, 168 lives and 708 guns.
The Great Storm of 1703 was the most severe storm or natural disaster ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain.
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