However, A. R. Braunmuller in the New Cambridge edition finds the 1605 – 6 arguments inconclusive, and argues only for an earliest date of 1603.

And A. R. Braunmuller ( not an Oxfordian ), in the New Cambridge edition of the play, finds the 1605-06 theory inconclusive and merely argues for a date of composition no earlier than 1603.

In the case of Macbeth, mainstream scholar A. R. Braunmuller, in the New Cambridge edition, finds the post-1605 arguments for the play inconclusive, and argues only for an earliest date of 1603.

* date unknown – Iravikkutti Pillai, Venad leader ( b. 1603 )

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

Following his father's accession to the throne of England in 1603, Henry became automatically Duke of Cornwall, and was invested Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester in 1610, thus uniting the six automatic and two traditional Scottish and English titles held by heirs-apparent to the throne ( s ) ever since that date.

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

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.

Nicholas Rowe in 1709 wrote that the play must date from after the death of Elizabeth in 1603, because its " Elogy upon Q. Elizabeth, and her Successor K. James, in the latter end of his Henry VIII, is a Proof of that Play's being written after the Accession of the latter of those two Princes to the Crown of England ".

At an uncertain but probably early date, his writing became more important, although he continued to act at least until 1603, when he performed in Ben Jonson's Sejanus.

An astrolabe bearing the date 1603 and believed to have belonged to Samuel de Champlain was discovered within the township.

The collection of armour, helmets and masks on display, mainly date from the Edo period ( 1603 – 1868 ), but also much earlier items, including a 14th century helmet bowl, make up this imposing collection.

The first edition is said to have appeared at Genoa in 1602 ; but this can have been only the first folio volume, for which permission to print was secured in 1599, as the two succeeding volumes contain both in their preface and the author's dedication the date 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.

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.

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.

The two countries had shared a monarch since the Union of the Crowns in 1603, when King James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne from his double first cousin twice removed, Queen Elizabeth I.

References to the First Quarto and First Folio are marked Hamlet Q1 and Hamlet F1, respectively, and are taken from the Arden Shakespeare " Hamlet: the texts of 1603 and 1623 " ( Thompson and Taylor, 2006b ).

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.

Coined in English 1603, the word " lexicon " derives from the Greek ( lexicon ), neuter of ( lexikos ), " of or for words ", from ( lexis ), " speech ", " word ", and that from ( lego ), " to say ", " to speak ".

As the play appears to celebrate King James's ancestors and the Stuart accession to the throne in 1603 ( James believed himself to be descended from Banquo ), scholars say that the play is unlikely to have been composed earlier than 1603 and suggest that the parade of eight kings — which the witches show Macbeth in a vision in Act IV — is a compliment to King James.

Mehmed III Adli ( Ottoman Turkish: محمد ثالث Meḥmed-i < u > s </ u > āli < u > s </ u >, Turkish: III. Mehmet ; < span dir =" ltr "> May 26, 1566 – December 21 / 22, 1603 )</ span > was sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1595 until his death.

* 1603 – Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yozei, and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan.

He also encouraged the plans of Philip II to dethrone Elizabeth I of England ( reigned from 1558 – 1603 ), thus helping to develop an atmosphere of subversion and imminent danger among English Protestants, who looked on any Roman Catholic as a potential traitor.

In 1603 Lancaster again visited Saint Helena on his return from the first voyage equipped by the British East India Company.

The first system comes from the German astronomer Johann Bayer's ( 1572 – 1625 ) Uranometria published in 1603 and is for bright stars.

Ieyasu seized power in 1600, received appointment as shogun in 1603, abdicated from office in 1605, but remained in power until his death in 1616.

The Tudor dynasty or House of Tudor was a European royal house of Welsh origin from Prince Rhys ap Tewdwr that ruled the Kingdom of England and its realms, including the Lordship of Ireland, later the Kingdom of Ireland, from 1485 until 1603.

In 1597, the Convocation of the clergy, bishops, and archbishop of the province of Canterbury found it necessary to order parchment copies of all entries from old paper registers, instructions that were soon reissued in 1603.

Uruguayan Indians Drawing from Hendrick Ottsen journal, 1603.

The first milled ( that is, machine-made ) coins were produced during the reign of Elizabeth I ( 1558 – 1603 ) and periodically during the subsequent reigns of James I and Charles I, but there was initially opposition to mechanisation from the moneyers who ensured that most coins continued to be produced by hammering.

Like Gesner, Ulisse Aldrovandi, an encyclopedic naturalist began a 14-volume natural history with three volumes on birds, entitled ornithologiae hoc est de avibus historiae libri XII which was published from 1599 to 1603.

In 1895 a monument was erected to his memory in the churchyard at Osteel where he was pastor from 1603 until 1617.

The German traveler Hieronymus Megiser includes a list of Maltese words in his Thesaurus Polyglottus ( published in 1603 ), and also in his more celebrated work Propugnaculum Europae, published in 1606.

These words are often used to describe anything related to that number ( e. g., undenary chess is a chess variant with an 11 × 11 board, or the Millenary Petition of 1603 ).

The first was laid down by the Canons of 1603 / 4 and modified by the Clerical Subscription Act 1865 which also prescribed the form of the declaration against simonyand the words of the oath of allegiance according to the form in the Promissory Oaths Act 1868.

On Elizabeth's death in 1603, the 1559 book, substantially that of 1552 which had been regarded as offensive by the likes of Bishop Stephen Gardiner as being a break with the tradition of the Western church, had come to be regarded in some quarters as unduly Catholic.

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 ..."

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.

Some other previous outbreaks of the plague in England were the 1603 plague, which killed 30, 000 Londoners ; the 1625 plague, when some 35, 000 died, and the 1636 plague, when some 10, 000 died.

Several assassination attempts were made on James, notably the Main Plot and Bye Plots of 1603, and most famously, on 5 November 1605, the Gunpowder Plot, by a group of Catholic conspirators, led by Sir Robert Catesby, which caused more antipathy in England towards the Catholic faith.

Extremely cold summers ( 1601 – 1603 ) wrecked crops, which led to the Russian famine of 1601 – 1603 and increased the social disorganization.

His third oldest son, Yahya, is of interest to some because he reportedly converted to Eastern Orthodox Christianity and campaigned for a good part of his life to gain the Ottoman Imperial throne, to which his younger brother Ahmed I succeeded to in 1603.

The will of a William Latewise who died in 1603 in Goosnargh – part of the parish of Kirkham – which states he was " of Culcheth in the parish of Winwick ".

The Academy has its origins in the Accademia dei Lincei (" Academy of Lynxes ") established in Rome in 1603, under Pope Clement VIII by the learned Roman prince, Federico Cesi ( 1585 – 1630 ), who was a young botanist and naturalist, and which claimed Galileo Galilei as its president.

Although Franciscus Vieta ( 1540 – 1603 ) gave the first notation of modern algebra, John Napier ( 1550 – 1617 ) invented logarithms, and Edmund Gunter ( 1581 – 1626 ) created the logarithmic scales ( lines, or rules ) upon which slide rules are based.

* Franciscus Vieta ( 1540 – 1603 ) published In Artem Analycitem Isagoge ( 1591 ), which gave the first symbolic notation of parameters in literal algebra.

* William Gilbert ( 1544 – 1603 ) published On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on the Great Magnet the Earth in 1600, which laid the foundations of a theory of magnetism and electricity.

In 1603 the Spanish began to introduce cattle, which became a source of wealth in the region.

In 1603 the Spanish began to introduce cattle, which became a source of wealth in the region.

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.

Despite uncertainty about the single origin of yakuza organizations, most modern yakuza derive from two classifications which emerged in the mid-Edo Period ( 1603 – 1868 ): tekiya, those who primarily peddled illicit, stolen or shoddy goods ; and bakuto, those who were involved in or participated in gambling.

Between 1603 and 1868 there were, according to one authority, at least 130 famines, of which 21 were widespread and serious.

Traditional Japanese origami, which has been practiced since the Edo era ( 1603 – 1867 ), has often been less strict about these conventions, sometimes cutting the paper or using nonsquare shapes to start with.

Other possible sources are the anonymous play King Leir ( published in 1605 ); A Mirror for Magistrates ( 1574 ), by John Higgins ; The Malcontent ( 1604 ), by John Marston ; The London Prodigal ( 1605 ); Arcadia ( 1580 – 1590 ), by Sir Philip Sidney, from which Shakespeare took the main outline of the Gloucester subplot ; Montaigne's Essays, which were translated into English by John Florio in 1603 ; An Historical Description of Iland of Britaine, by William Harrison ; Remaines Concerning Britaine, by William Camden ( 1606 ); Albion's England, by William Warner, ( 1589 ); and A Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures, by Samuel Harsnett ( 1603 ), which provided some of the language used by Edgar while he feigns madness.