Also in 1603, the Treaty of Gera was concluded by the members of the House of Hohenzollern, ruling that their territories were not to be internally divided in the future.

On 30 March 1603, six days after the death of Elizabeth and the accession of James I, O ' Neill made peace with Mountjoy, signing the Treaty of Mellifont. Mountjoy continued in office with the more distinguished title of Lord-Lieutenant ( 1603 – 1604 ).

The Moore family descends from Sir Garrett Moore, a staunch friend of Hugh O ' Neill, the Great Earl of Tyrone, whose submission he facilitated, hosting the negotiations that led to the Treaty of Mellifont in 1603 and ending The Nine Years ' War.

O ' Neill was pardoned under the terms of the Treaty of Mellifont in March 1603 and submitted to the crown.

Russell's faction prevailed, and the rebellion grew into a general revolt, which lasted through the Nine Years War and ended with the Treaty of Mellifont in 1603.

After the defeat, the Duke of Savoy was obliged to accept a lasting peace, sealed by the Treaty of St. Julien of July 12, 1603.

Hugh O ' Neill's career as unquestioned leader of the O ' Neills became a series of quarrels with the English government: like many great feudal lords, he rebelled in the Nine Years ' War, was proclaimed a traitor, and ultimately submitted to the Crown at the Treaty of Mellifont in 1603.

Following the Treaty of Mellifont of 1603 the new KIng James I pardoned Rory O ' Donnell and created him Earl of Tyrconnell in the Irish peerage.

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.

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.

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.

In the Bye Plot of 1603, two Catholic priests planned to kidnap King James and hold him in the Tower of London until he agreed to be more tolerant towards Catholics.

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.

She died on 24 March 1603 at Richmond Palace, between two and three in the morning.

During his reign between 1557 and 1603 in the Franconian territories of the Hohenzollern ( Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Kulmbach ) he kept peace, rebuilt cities and Castles, founded several schools and a University.

The playwright William Shakespeare had already used the family history of Northumberland's family in his Henry IV series of plays, and the events of the Gunpowder Plot seem to have featured alongside the earlier Gowrie conspiracy in Macbeth, written some time between 1603 and 1607.

The play is believed to have been written between 1603 and 1607, and is most commonly dated 1606.

Roger Williams ( c. 1603 – between January and March 1683 ) was an English Protestant theologian who was an early proponent of religious freedom and the separation of church and state.

The Romans called it ’’ Portus Dubris ’’; the modern name was in use at least by the time Shakespeare wrote King Lear ( between 1603 and 1606 ), in which the town and its cliffs play a prominent role.

The play was written between 1603 and 1606 and later revised.

Although an exact date of composition cannot be given, many academic editors of the play date King Lear between 1603 and 1606.

The death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603 began the end of turbulent relations between the Scots and England.

Often, the masquers who did not speak or sing were courtiers: King James I's queen consort, Anne of Denmark, frequently danced with her ladies in masques between 1603 and 1611, and Henry VIII and Charles I performed in the masques at their courts.

* Grote or St. Jans Kerk ( Great or Saint John Church )-longest church in the Netherlands, famous for its stained glass windows which were made between 1530 and 1603, considered the most significant stained glass collection in the Netherlands.

In 1603 James VI of Scotland inherited the crown of England, bringing a period of peace between the two countries.

The idea of an east to west waterway link across southern England was first mentioned in Elizabethan times, between 1558 and 1603, to take advantage of the proximity of the rivers Avon and Thames, only apart at their closest.

The, or is the period between 1603 to 1868 in the history of Japan when it was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Around this time, Jones also learnt how to speak Italian fluently and obtained an Italian copy of Andrea Palladio ’ s I quattro libri dell ' architettura ( first published in 1570 ): all indicating that Jones made his first formative trip to Italy between 1598 – 1603, possibly funded by Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland.

Although the child's removal caused enormous tension between Anne and James, Henry remained under the care of Mar's family until 1603, when James became King of England and his family moved south.

These were laws which were in force between 1590 and 1603 until the beginning of the Counter-Reformation.

After al-Mansur's death in 1603, al-Maqqari established himself in Fes, where he was appointed both as mufti and as the imam of the Qarawiyyin mosque by al-Mansour's successor Zidan Abu Maali in 1618, but he had to leave Fes in that same year, probably because of the civil war between the Saadian sultans.

As early as 1598 Francis Meres includes Chettle in his Palladis Tamia as one of the " best for comedy ", and Henslowe lists payments to him for thirty-six plays between 1598 and 1603, and he may have been involved in as many as fifty plays, although only a dozen seem to be his alone.

This would place the date of composition as somewhere between March 1603 and December 1606.

Whilst many scholars feel that Shakespeare used the anonymous play The True Chronicle History of King Leir ( entered into the Stationers ' Register on 8 May 1605 ), and hence must have been written between May 1605 and December 1606, others argue that the relationship between the two plays has been inverted, and The True Chronicle History of King Leir was actually written to capitalise on the success of Shakespeare's play, which was probably written in 1603 or 1604.

Most scholars place the date of composition as somewhere between 1603 and 1607, and efforts to narrow that date have proved inconclusive.

When the revision took place is difficult to determine, as evidence places it at some time between 1593 and 1604, although the majority of critics seem to favour a later date of 1603 – 1604.

In that same year he negotiated Perkin's retirement from the court of James IV, and in 1498 – 1499 he completed the negotiations for that treaty of marriage between the Scottish king and Henry's daughter Margaret which led ultimately to the union of the two crowns in 1603 and of the two kingdoms in 1707.