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March 6, 1703Born on Wednesday March 7, 1703
- anne marie DESCAMPS, Wihéries (Belgium) Hainaut
- Aeltjen Jacobs Alink, Bathmen
- Francesca STUPPA, Pantelleria,SICILE,Trapani,Sicilia,ITALIE († 1781)
- Dimphna Janse Verstraeten, Zevenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Arij Cornelisz Molendijk, Charlois, zh.nld († 1767)
- Aafjen Hermans Terwischa, Oldemarkt
- Elisabeth de Ruyter, Lubbeek († 1716)
- Christian Friedrich von Zepelin († 1767)
- Dirk Berends Drijfhout, (F) († 1773)
- Dirk Berends (Durk, Beernts) Drijfhout († 1773)
Died on Wednesday March 7, 1703
- Lambertus <Leonardi> Corten (42), Geleen, Limburg, Nederland
- Maartje Pieters Breghman (58)
- Judoca van de Brandele (73), Autrichepolder
- Catharina Teulings (63), Antwerpen
- James Chase (56)
- Johannes Michielse de Blaeij (43)
- Francois LEPRETRE (67), Ille et vilaine 35
- Anne Marie Leenaerts (75), Sint-Truiden,3800,Limburg,BE
- Lydia Norwood (Jordan) (68), Southwark Parish, Surry County, Province of Virginia, Colonial America
- Maaijken Willems van Eeden (50), Rhenen
Born on March 7
- 1671 » Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish outlaw († 1734)
- 1678 » Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect, designed the Basilica of Superga († 1736)
- 1693 » Clement XIII, pope of the Catholic Church († 1769)
- 1715 » Ewald Christian von Kleist, German soldier and poet († 1759)
- 1723 » Prince Vittorio Amedeo Theodore of Savoy († 1725)
- 1730 » Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, French soldier and politician, Prime Minister of France († 1807)
- 1765 » Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, invented photography († 1833)
- 1785 » Alessandro Manzoni, Italian author and poet († 1873)
- 1788 » Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist and biochemist († 1878)
- 1792 » John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer († 1871)
Died on March 7
- 1517 » Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (b. 1482)
- 1550 » William IV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1493)
- 1578 » Margaret Douglas, English daughter of Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus (b. 1515)
- 1625 » Johann Bayer, German lawyer and cartographer (b. 1572)
- 1724 » Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)
- 1767 » Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, Canadian politician, 2nd Colonial Governor of Louisiana (b. 1680)
- 1778 » Charles De Geer, Swedish entomologist and archaeologist (b. 1720)
- 1809 » Jean-Pierre Blanchard, French inventor, best known as a pioneer in balloon flight (b. 1753)
- 1810 » Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, English admiral (b. 1750)
- 1838 » Robert Townsend, American spy (b. 1753)
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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 27 » Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England.