* 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: Saint Petersburg founded by Peter the Great.

* July 29 – Peter Warren, British admiral ( b. 1703 )

In any case, in 1703, while visiting Menshikov at his home, Peter met Marta, and shortly after that he took her as his own mistress.

Peter had moved the capital to St Petersburg in 1703.

Peter I had meanwhile recovered and gained ground in Sweden's Baltic provinces, where he cemented Russia's access to the Baltic Sea by founding Saint Petersburg in 1703.

Russian victories at Erastfer and Nöteborg ( Shlisselburg ) provided access to Ingria in 1703, and here Peter began building his new capital, Saint Petersburg.

* Saint Petersburg was built by Peter the Great as a planned capital city starting in 1703.

During the war, Peter I of Russia had occupied all Swedish possessions on the eastern Baltic coast: Swedish Ingria, where the soon to be new Russian capital of St. Petersburg was begun in 1703, Swedish Estonia and Swedish Livonia, which had capitulated in 1710, and Finland.

In 1703 Peter the Great had founded his new capital, Saint Petersburg, in the furthest-flung corner of the Gulf of Finland.

Saint Petersburg was built by Peter the Great as a planned capital city starting in 1703.

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.

* Sir Peter Warren ( Royal Navy officer ) ( c. 1703 – 1752 ), British naval officer

Peter the Great, recognizing the political and economical importance of the peninsula, promoted its industries and commerce ; however, the region fell into neglect after St. Petersburg was founded in 1703 and most of the shipping trade shifted there.

In 1703, Peter the Great founded the town of Novaya Ladoga ( New Ladoga ) closer to the bank of Lake Ladoga.

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.

On May 1, 1703, during the Ingrian campaign of the Great Northern War, the fortress of Nyenskans was taken by Peter the Great and renamed Schlotburg ( Shlotburg ), " Neck-town ", after the long narrow section of the Neva river where it was located ( German " Schlot " corresponds to "( funnel ) neck, narrows, chimney ").

Sir Peter Warren, KB ( 10 March 1703 – 29 July 1752 ) was a British naval officer from Ireland who commanded the naval forces in the attack on the French fortress of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia in 1745.

Kronstadt was founded by Peter the Great, who took the island of Kotlin from the Swedes in 1703.

He enrolled in the Royal Academy in 1703 and made a series of drawing of the Marie de Médicis painting cycle by Peter Paul Rubens in the Luxembourg Palace ; the publication ( 1710 ) of engravings based on these drawings made Nattier famous.

The Peter and Paul Fortress (, Petropavlovskaya Krepost ) is the original citadel of St. Petersburg, Russia, founded by Peter the Great in 1703 and built to Domenico Trezzini's designs from 1706-1740.

The fortress was established by Peter the Great on May 16 ( by the Julian Calendar, hereafter indicated using "( J )"; May 27 by the Gregorian Calendar ) 1703 on small Hare Island by the north bank of the Neva River, the last upstream island of the Neva delta.

During his governorship Münnich improved the local ports, reinforced the newly established Peter and Paul Fortress ( 1703 ), and was thinking of building a bridge towards Stockholm.

The first port for this purpose was built in the mouth of the Utka tributary in 1703 by the orders of Peter the Great.