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Born on Wednesday December 26, 1703
- Aafje Hardenbroek († 1798)
- Auke de Vries, Molkwerum, Friesland, Nederland
- Albertina Wuster, Hilsbach, Ortenaukreis, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany († 1714)
- Agathe George, Ménil-la-Tour, 54200, Francia
- Cornelia Anthonius Mansfelders, Bakel († 1769)
- Dirck Cornelisz Rebel, Huijsen († 1773)
- Dirk Kornelisz Rebel, Huizen,, Noord-Holland, Nederland
- Aafje van Hardenbroek († 1798)
- Catalina GUASCO, Bastia,20200,Haute-Corse,CORSE,FRANCE
- Boeren Jacobus Hendrick, Ginneken, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
Died on Wednesday December 26, 1703
- Mechtildis Mans (40), Montfort
- John Sunderland (84), Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
- Anna (Annetje) Jacobs Coppert (73), Kethel
- Marie Van Goethem (34), Stekene
- Bernardus Josephus de ROO (0), Ruiselede, West-Vlaanderen, België
- Laurentia Blondeel (28), Maldegem, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Maximilien Francois Gobert van LYNDEN-RECKHEIM, Koln, Regierungsbezirk Koln, North Rhine-Westphalia, Duitsland
- Mechteldis Mans (40), Montfort, Netherlands
- Catarina Jacobs
- John Sunderlin (85)
Born on December 26
- 1628 » John Page, American politician († 1692)
- 1646 » Robert Bolling, English-American merchant and planter († 1709)
- 1687 » Johann Georg Pisendel, German violinist and composer († 1755)
- 1716 » Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French soldier and philosopher († 1803)
- 1716 » Thomas Gray, English poet and scholar († 1771)
- 1723 » Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, German-French author and playwright († 1807)
- 1737 » Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld († 1815)
- 1751 » Clemens Maria Hofbauer, Austrian priest, missionary, and saint († 1820)
- 1751 » Lord George Gordon, English lieutenant and politician († 1793)
- 1769 » Ernst Moritz Arndt, German writer and poet († 1860)
Died on December 26
- 1530 » Babur, Mongolian emperor (b. 1483)
- 1574 » Charles de Lorraine, French cardinal (b. 1524)
- 1646 » Henri de Bourbon, prince of Condé (b. 1588)
- 1731 » Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French author (b. 1672)
- 1771 » Claude Adrien Helvétius, French philosopher and activist (b. 1715)
- 1780 » John Fothergill, English physician and botanist (b. 1712)
- 1784 » Seth Warner, American colonel (b. 1743)
- 1786 » Gasparo Gozzi, Italian playwright and critic (b. 1713)
- 1863 » Francis Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of Charlemont, Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone (b. 1775)
- 1869 » Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille, French physician and physiologist (b. 1797)
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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.
- May 27 » Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
- 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.