1603

Centuries:	16th century - 17th century - 18th century
Decades:	1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s
Years:	1600 1601 1602 - 1603 - 1604 1605 1606

1603 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture -
Art - Literature - Music - Science
Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments
Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

1603 (MDCIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Events

King James I of England/VI of Scotland, the first monarch to rule the Kingdoms of England and Scotland at the same time

March - Samuel de Champlain, French explorer, sails to Canada.
March 24 - Elizabeth I of England dies and is succeeded by her cousin's grandson, King James I of England, uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.
April 28 – Funeral of Elizabeth I of England in Westminster Abbey.

Johann Bayer's Uranometria, an atlas of the southern sky, is published.
Tokugawa Ieyasu granted title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan and establishes the Edo or Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan. This ends the Azuchi-Momoyama period and begins the Edo period.
Accademia dei Lincei founded.
Huguenot Pierre de Gua is granted royal permission to settle in North America.
Rebellion in Transylvania.
Plague in England.
English crush Irish rebellion. Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone surrenders.
Yaqob deposed as Emperor of Ethiopia by Za Sellase, who appoints his cousin Za Dengel to replace him.

January - Shackerley Marmion, English dramatist (d. 1639)
January 27 - Harbottle Grimston, English politician (d. 1685)
March 18
- Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate (d. 1697)
- King John IV of Portugal (d. 1656)
April 19 - Michel le Tellier, French statesman (d. 1685)
June 17 - Joseph of Cupertino, Italian saint (d. 1663)
July 11 - Kenelm Digby, English privateer and alchemist (d. 1665)
July 23 - Axel Lillie, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1662)
August 16 - Adam Olearius, German scholar (d. 1671)
August 17 - Lennart Torstenson,Dutch solidier and military engineer (d. 1651)
September 15 - Tokugawa Yorifusa, Japanese nobleman (d. 1661)
October 10 - Abel Janszoon Tasman, a Dutch seafarer and explorer (d. 1659)
November 16 - Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior of the Jasna Góra Monastery (d. 1673)
December 21 - Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (d. 1684)
date unknown
- Louis Abelly, French monk and priest (died 1691)
- John Ashburnham, English Member of Parliament (died 1671)
- Daniel Blagrave, English Member of Parliament (died 1668)
- Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian (died 1669)
- Valentin Conrart, one of the founders of the Académie française (died 1675)
- Denis Gaultier, French lutenist and composer (died 1672)
probable
- Aernout van der Neer, Dutch painter (died 1677)
- Alexandre de Prouville, French statesman and soldier (died 1670)

January 15 - Catherine Carey, Lady in waiting to Elizabeth I of England
February 23 - Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (b. 1519)
March 24 - Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. 1533)
March 25 - Ikoma Chikamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1526)
April 25 – George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1539)
June - Baldassare Donato, Italian composer and singer (b. 1525)
June 27 - Jan Dymitr Solikowski, Polish archbishop, writer, and diplomat (b. 1539)
July 4 - Philippe de Monte, Flemish composer (b. 1521)
September 8 - George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, English politician (b. 1547)
November 16 - Pierre Charron, French philosopher (b. 1541)
November 20 – Krzysztof Mikołaj "the Lightning" Radziwiłł, Polish nobleman (b. 1547)
December 9 - William Watson, English conspirator (b. 1559)
December 10 - William Gilbert, English scientist (plague) (b. 1544)
December 13 - François Viète, French mathematician (b. 1540)
December 22 - Mehmed III, Ottoman Emperor (b. 1566)
December 27 - Thomas Cartwright, English Puritan clergyman
date unknown
- Edward Fenton, English navigator
- Ralph Lane, English explorer (b. 1530)
- Aleksander Ostrogski, Polish nobleman (b. 1571)
- Ikeda Tomomasa, Japanese military commander (b. 1544)
- Chen Lin, general of Ming Dynasty
probable
- Grace O'Malley, Irish noblewoman and pirate (b. 1530)
- Idris Alooma.