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Born on Sunday January 14, 1703
- Agnes Salden, Limbricht,, Limburg, Nederland
- Anna Elisabeth Van Breen, Roosteren, Spaans Opper-Gelre
- Arie van der Giessen, westmaas (zuid holland)
- Berendina Schulte Nordholt, Gildehaus
- Berentje Geessinck, Winterswijk, Gelderland, Nederland
- Adriaen Wetteren van, Oud-Vossemeer, Zeeland, Nederland
- Arie Arijensz van der Giessen, Westmaas, zh.nld
- Antoine KALT, Dietwiller, 68, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, FRANCE
- Aafke Cornelis, Slochteren, Groningen, Nederland
- Adriana van Dam, Cape Town, South Africa († 1725)
Died on Sunday January 14, 1703
- Joannes Staijen, Bimmen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
- George Albrecht van Brandenburg-Kulmbach (36)
- Cornelis Simons SORGHDRAGER (2)
- Adriaentje Andries van den Broek (44), Baardwijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Georg Albrecht Prinz Von Brandenburg-Bayreuth (36), Oberkotzau, Oberfranken (Bayern) D
- Dirckje Jacobsdr. van Wijck (37), Ravenswaaij
- Jan de Jonge, Terneuzen
- Ariaantje Ariens (59)
- Ariaantje Ariensdr (63), voor
- Geurt Godefridus Spee, Lebanon
Born on January 14
- 1683 » Gottfried Silbermann, German instrument maker († 1753)
- 1684 » Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter († 1745)
- 1684 » Johann Matthias Hase, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer († 1742)
- 1699 » Jakob Adlung, German organist, historian, and theorist († 1762)
- 1700 » Picander, German poet and playwright († 1764)
- 1702 » Emperor Nakamikado of Japan († 1737)
- 1705 » Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier, French sailor, explorer, and politician († 1786)
- 1741 » Benedict Arnold, American-British general († 1801)
- 1767 » Maria Theresa of Austria († 1827)
- 1780 » Henry Baldwin, American judge and politician († 1844)
Died on January 14
- 1640 » Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, English lawyer, judge, and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (b. 1578)
- 1648 » Caspar Barlaeus, Dutch historian, poet, and theologian (b. 1584)
- 1676 » Francesco Cavalli, Italian organist and composer (b. 1602)
- 1679 » Jacques de Billy, French mathematician and academic (b. 1602)
- 1701 » Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese daimyō (b. 1628)
- 1742 » Edmond Halley, English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist (b. 1656)
- 1753 » George Berkeley, Anglo-Irish philosopher and author (b. 1685)
- 1766 » Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1723)
- 1776 » Edward Cornwallis, English general and politician, Governor of Gibraltar (b. 1713)
- 1786 » Michael Arne, English organist and composer (b. 1741)
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Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1703
- This page is only available in Dutch.Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
- January 30 » The Forty-seven rōnin, under the command of Ōishi Kuranosuke, avenge the death of their master, by killing Kira Yoshinaka.
- February 4 » In Edo (now Tokyo), all but one of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
- May 21 » Daniel Defoe is imprisoned on charges of seditious libel.
- July 26 » During the Bavarian Rummel the rural population of Tyrol drove the Bavarian Prince-Elector Maximilian II Emanuel out of North Tyrol with a victory at the Pontlatzer Bridge and thus prevented the Bavarian Army, which was allied with France, from marching as planned on Vienna during the War of the Spanish Succession.
- July 31 » Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.
- December 27 » Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England.