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1703

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
November 26: The Great Storm of 1703 strikes Britain
1703 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1703
MDCCIII
Ab urbe condita2456
Armenian calendar1152
ԹՎ ՌՃԾԲ
Assyrian calendar6453
Balinese saka calendar1624–1625
Bengali calendar1110
Berber calendar2653
English Regnal yearAnn. 1 – 2 Ann. 1
Buddhist calendar2247
Burmese calendar1065
Byzantine calendar7211–7212
Chinese calendar壬午年 (Water Horse)
4400 or 4193
    — to —
癸未年 (Water Goat)
4401 or 4194
Coptic calendar1419–1420
Discordian calendar2869
Ethiopian calendar1695–1696
Hebrew calendar5463–5464
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1759–1760
 - Shaka Samvat1624–1625
 - Kali Yuga4803–4804
Holocene calendar11703
Igbo calendar703–704
Iranian calendar1081–1082
Islamic calendar1114–1115
Japanese calendarGenroku 16
(元禄16年)
Javanese calendar1626–1627
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4036
Minguo calendar209 before ROC
民前209年
Nanakshahi calendar235
Thai solar calendar2245–2246
Tibetan calendar阳水马年
(male Water-Horse)
1829 or 1448 or 676
    — to —
阴水羊年
(female Water-Goat)
1830 or 1449 or 677

1703 (MDCCIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1703rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 703rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 3rd year of the 18th century, and the 4th year of the 1700s decade. As of the start of 1703, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Thursday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.

Events

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January–March

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April–June

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July–September

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October–December

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Date unknown

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Births

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Daniel-Charles Trudaine born 3 January
Peter Warren (Royal Navy officer) born 10 March
Edmund Law born 6 June
John Wesley born 28 June
Muhammad Ibrahim (Mughal emperor) born 9 August
Jean-Louis Calandrini born 30 August
Jonathan Edwards (theologian) born 5 October
Louise Levesque born 23 November
Simon Carl Stanley born 12 December

January–March

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April–June

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July–September

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October–December

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Deaths

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Robert Hooke
Man in the Iron Mask

References

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