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What Happened In Year 1703?

• January 30, 1703 – The Forty-seven Ronin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master.
• February 4, 1703 – In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master’s death.
• May 27, 1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
• July 31, 1703 – Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
• November 25, 1703 – The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, reaches its peak intensity which it maintains through November 27. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die.
• November 27, 1703 – The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.
• December 27, 1703 – Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England.

Who Were Born In The Year 1703?

• February 5, 1703 – Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader (d. 1764)
• February 21, 1703 – Shah Waliullah, Islamic Scholar and Reformer (d. 1762)
• March 5, 1703 – Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1768)
• June 23, 1703 – Queen Marie Leszczyńska, Polish-born wife of Louis XV of France (d. 1768)
• June 26, 1703 – Thomas Clap, American academic (d. 1767)
• June 28, 1703 – John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (d. 1791)
• August 2, 1703 – Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (d. 1775)
• September 29, 1703 – François Boucher, French painter (d. 1770)
• October 5, 1703 – Jonathan Edwards, American minister (d. 1758)
• October 28, 1703 – Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (d. 1768)
• November 25, 1703 – Jean-François Séguier, French astronomer and botanist (d. 1784)
• November 26, 1703 – Theophilus Cibber, English actor and writer (d. 1758)
• December 2, 1703 – Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian explorer (d. 1759)

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