Hamilton was made Sheriff of Linlithgow in 1600, received large grants of lands in Scotland and Ireland, was created in 1603 Baron Abercorn, and on 10 July 1606 was rewarded for his services in the matter of the union by being made Earl of Abercorn and Lord Paisley, Hamilton, Mountcastell and Kilpatrick.

They are dedicated to two members of the Catholic nobility, Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton and Byrd's own patron Sir John Petre, who had been elevated to the peerage in 1603 under the title Lord Petre of Writtle.

At Sir Walter Raleigh's own treason trial later on, in 1603, it was alleged that Raleigh had said to a co-conspirator, " Do not, as my Lord Essex did, take heed of a preacher.

It was purportedly written in 1603 by Philip, Lord Chandos to Francis Bacon.

The government alleged that on 11 June 1603, Raleigh had met with Lord Cobham, and they had agreed to bring Lady Arbella Stuart to the English throne, and to accept 600, 000 marks from the Spanish government.

He probably was acting with the Admiral's Men in 1590, with Lord Strange's Men in 1592, and with the Earl of Pembroke's Men in 1593 ; but most famously he was the star of William Shakespeare's theatre company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men which became the King's Men on the ascension of James I in 1603.

His son James Hamilton was created Lord Abercorn on 5 April 1603, then on 10 July 1606 he was made Earl of Abercorn and Lord of Paisley, Hamilton, Mountcastell and Kilpatrick, all in the Peerage of Scotland.

: Other titles: Lord Abercorn, in the county of Linlithgow ( Sc 1603 ) and Lord Paisley, Hamilton, Mountcashell and Kirkpatrick ( Sc 1606 )

* James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn ( 1575 – 1618 ) had been created Lord Abercorn in 1603

: Other titles: Earl of Abercorn ( Sc 1606 ), Viscount Strabane ( Ir 1701 ), Viscount Hamilton ( GB 1786 ), Lord Paisley, in the county of Renfrew ( Sc 1587 ), Lord Abercorn, in the county of Linlithgow ( Sc 1603 ), Lord Paisley, Hamilton, Mountcashell and Kirkpatrick ( Sc 1606 ), Lord Hamilton of Strabane, in the county of Tyrone ( Ir 1617 ) and Baron Mountcastle, in the county of Tyrone ( Ir 1701 )

: Other titles: Marquess of Abercorn ( GB 1790 ), Marquess of Hamilton, of Strabane in the county of Tyrone ( 1868 ), Earl of Abercorn ( Sc 1606 ), Viscount Strabane ( Ir 1701 ), Viscount Hamilton ( GB 1786 ), Lord Paisley, in the county of Renfrew ( Sc 1587 ), Lord Abercorn, in the county of Linlithgow ( Sc 1603 ), Lord Paisley, Hamilton, Mountcashell and Kirkpatrick ( Sc 1606 ), Lord Hamilton of Strabane, in the county of Tyrone ( Ir 1617 ) and Baron Mountcastle, in the county of Tyrone ( Ir 1701 )

* Thomas Cecil, Lord Burghley 1599 – 1603

His grandson, the 3rd Baron, served as Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire from 1603 to 1619 and was created Earl of Mulgrave in 1626, also in the Peerage of England.

On his return to England, Lord Mountjoy served as one of Sir Walter Raleigh's judges in 1603 ; and in the same year James I made him master of the ordnance and created him Earl of Devonshire, also granting him extensive estates.

* no Lord Steward appointed 1588 – 1603

Shakespeare's desire to burlesque a hero of early English Protestantism could indicate Catholic sympathies, but Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham was sufficiently sympathetic to Catholicism that in 1603, he was imprisoned as part of the Main Plot to place Arbella Stuart on the English throne, so if Shakespeare wished to use Oldcastle to embarrass the Cobhams, he seems unlikely to have done so on religious grounds.

The eldest daughter of the Lord Deputy, Elizabeth, had married George Brooke, who was executed and attainted in 1603, for his part in the Bye Plot against King James I ; he was heir to Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, who was also attainted for his part in the Main Plot.

He was one of the judges at the trials of Walter Raleigh and Lord Cobham in 1603, of Guy Fawkes in 1605, and of Henry Garnet in 1606, in each case pressing for a conviction.

Shortly before James's accession to the English throne in 1603, Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury through Lord Henry Howard particularly warned the king against Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Percy.

* Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham ( 1564 – 1619 ) ( attainted 1603 )

* Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham 29 October 1597 – 24 March 1603

Ahmed I ( Ottoman Turkish: احمد اول Aḥmed-i evvel, ) or Ahmed Bakhti ( April 18, 1590 – November 22, 1617 ) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1603 until his death in 1617.

After its introduction on Plancius's globe, the first known depiction of the constellation in a celestial atlas was in Johann Bayer's Uranometria of 1603, where it was called " Apis Indica ".

In early 1578, the regency was taken over by his cousin, George Frederick of Brandenburg-Kulmbach ( 1539 – 1603 ).

Historically, this proceeded from the labours of Jean de Launoy ( 1603 – 1678 ), " le dénicheur des saints ", and Louis Sébastien le Nain de Tillemont, who had shown the falsity of numerous lives of the saints ; while theologically it was produced by the Port Royal school, which led men to dwell more on communion with God as contrasted with the invocation of the saints.

Of the famine in Povolzhie ( 1921 – 1922 ) he wrote: " That horrible famine was up to cannibalism, up to consuming children by their own parents — the famine, which Russia had never known even in Time of Troubles 1601 – 1603 ..."

Kusari gusoku or chain armour was commonly used during the Edo period 1603 to 1868 as a stand alone defence.

Constantine's reign of 43 years, exceeded in Scotland only by that of King William the Lion before the Union of the Crowns in 1603, is believed to have played a defining part in the gaelicisation of Pictland, in which his patronage of the Irish Céli Dé monastic reformers was a significant factor.

The Hindu social code was later set up in Gorkha by Ram Shah ( 1603 – 36 ).

When Elizabeth I of England died in March 1603 and James VI of Scotland became King of England as James I, Charles was not considered strong enough to make the journey to London due to his fragile health.

Elizabeth I ( known simply as " Elizabeth " until the accession of Elizabeth II ; 7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603 ) was queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death.

It was the seat of power for the Tokugawa shogunate, which ruled Japan from 1603 to 1868.

Bacon was knighted in 1603, and created both the Baron Verulam in 1618 and the Viscount St. Alban in 1621 ; as he died without heirs, both peerages became extinct upon his death.

He was knighted in 1603.

The word geology was first used by Ulisse Aldrovandi in 1603, then by Jean-André Deluc in 1778 and introduced as a fixed term by Horace-Bénédict de Saussure in 1779.

Its first depiction in a celestial atlas was in Johann Bayer's Uranometria of 1603.

George Frederick of Brandenburg-Ansbach () ( April 5, 1539, Ansbach – April 25, 1603 ) was Margrave of Ansbach and Bayreuth, as well as Regent of Prussia.

Monteagle's part in the discovery of the plot was welcomed, and denouncements of the 1603 mission to Spain featured strongly.

The first depiction of this constellation in a celestial atlas was in Johann Bayer's Uranometria of 1603.

The harp was adopted as a symbol of the Kingdom of Ireland on the coinage from 1542, and in the Royal Standard of King James ( VI of Scotland / I of England ) in 1603 and continued to feature on all English and United Kingdom Royal Standards ever since, though the styles of the harps depicted differed in some respects.

First was the foundation of Edo ( in 1603 ) to whole inland economical developments, second was the Meiji Restoration ( in 1868 ) to be the first non European power, third was after the defeat of World War II ( in 1945 ) when the island nation rose to become the world's second largest economy.