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Events

February 2 - Earthquake in L'Aquila, Italy
February 4 - In Japan, the 47 samurai commit seppuku (ritual suicide)
February 14 - Earthquake in Norcia, Italy
April 21 - Company of Quenching of Fire (ie. fire brigade) founded in Edinburgh, Scotland
May 27 - Founding of St Petersburg in Russia.
May 26 - Portugal joins Grand Alliance
July 29-31 - Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet
September 12 - War of the Spanish Succession – Habsburg Archduke Charles proclaimed King of Spain
October - A whirlwind blows down the tower of the Gan Takal in Gondar, capital of Ethiopia, killing 30.
November 19 - Unknown masked prisoner dies in Bastille
November 24 to December 2 - the Great Storm of 1703 ravages southern England and the English Channel, killing thousands
December 27 - Portugal and England sign the Methuen Treaty which gives preference to Portuguese imported wines into England.

A Tale of a Tub, first major satire by Jonathan Swift, published
George Psalmanazar arrives in London
Isaac Newton becomes the chairman of Royal Society
Ahmed III (1703-1730) succeeds Mustafa II (1695-1703) as emperor of the Ottoman Empire.

Births

February 5 - Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader (d. 1764)
March 5 (N. S.) - Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1768)
May 14 - David Brearly, delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (d. 1785)
June 17 - John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (d. 1791)
June 26 - Thomas Clap, first president of Yale University (d. 1767)
August 2 - Lorenzo Ricci, Italian Jesuit leader (d. 1775)
October 5 - Jonathan Edwards, American preacher (d. 1758)
October 28 - Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (d. 1768)
November 25 - Jean-François Séguier, French astronomer and botanist (d. 1784)
November 26 - Theophilus Cibber, English actor and writer (d. 1758)
December 2 - Ferdinand Konščak, Croatian explorer (d. 1759)
François Boucher, French painter (d. 1770)

Deaths

Phetracha, king of Ayutthaya
January 11 - Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (b. 1632)
March 3 - Robert Hooke, English scientist (b. 1635)
March 31 - Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (b. 1642)
April 20 - Lancelot Addison, English royal chaplain (b. 1632)
May 16 - Charles Perrault, French author (b. 1628)
May 26 - Samuel Pepys, English civil servant and diarist (b. 1633)
June 14 - Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (b. 1625)
September 22 - Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician and scientist (b. 1622)
September 25 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll, Scottish privy councillor (b. 1658)
September 29 - Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier (b. 1610)
October 28 - John Wallis, English mathematician (b. 1616)
November 30 - Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer (b. 1672)
December 28 - Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1664)

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