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March 30, 1703Born on Saturday March 31, 1703
- Antonius Lips, Princenhage, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Hans Bartheld Pflug, Lütjenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Duitsland
- Helena van Mulckens, Stein,, Limburg, Nederland
- Amos O'Kelley, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten († 1744)
- Claudine Ciclet, Thorens, Savoie Haute, France († 1732)
- Antoine Joseph Nottelet, Richebourg, 62136, Pas de Calais, FRANCE
- -Arnoldus BEX, (LOOSE-END) Zichem (B) († 1727)
- Adrianus van Goethem, Stekene
- Adriaen Cornelis Peter van Gils, Wuustwezel (B) († 1783)
- Govert Jansse van Velthoven, Leiden, ZH, Nederland
Died on Saturday March 31, 1703
- Pierre MALFOY, Audresselles, 62056, Pas de Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
- Elizabeth Parker (7), Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
- Livina Meertens
- Baefje van Heulen, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
- Béatrix TIRION (43), Liège, 62063, Liège, Belgique
- Petronella de ROO, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Maximiliaan Vrijheer van Schellendorff (57)
- Cap William Bassett, I (81), Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts
- Petronella Jacobus Ots (74), Rucphen
- Anna van Heulen, Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Nederland
Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from March 31, 1703 at Delpher
Born on March 31
- 1651 » Charles II, Elector Palatine, German husband of Princess Wilhelmine Ernestine of Denmark († 1685)
- 1675 » Pope Benedict XIV († 1758)
- 1718 » Mariana Victoria of Spain († 1781)
- 1723 » Frederick V of Denmark († 1766)
- 1730 » Étienne Bézout, French mathematician and theorist († 1783)
- 1732 » Joseph Haydn, Austrian pianist and composer († 1809)
- 1740 » Panoutsos Notaras, Greek politician († 1849)
- 1747 » Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German pianist and composer († 1800)
- 1777 » Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist and engineer († 1859)
- 1778 » Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist and ornithologist († 1858)
Died on March 31
- 1567 » Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse (b. 1504)
- 1621 » Philip III, Spanish king (b. 1578)
- 1622 » Gonzalo Méndez de Canço, Royal Governor of La Florida (b. 1554)
- 1631 » John Donne, English lawyer and poet (b. 1572)
- 1671 » Anne Hyde, wife of James II of England (b. 1637)
- 1723 » Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, English soldier and politician, 14th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1661)
- 1741 » Pieter Burman the Elder, Dutch scholar and author (b. 1668)
- 1751 » Frederick, Prince of Wales, Hanoverian-born heir to the British throne (b. 1707)
- 1797 » Olaudah Equiano, Nigerian merchant, author, and activist (b.1745)
- 1837 » John Constable, English painter and educator (b. 1776)
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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.
- 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.
- August 23 » Edirne event: Sultan Mustafa II of the Ottoman Empire is dethroned.
- December 7 » The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall. Winds gust up to 120mph, and 9,000 people die.