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Events
February 2 – Earthquake in Aquila, Italy
February 4 - In Japan the 47 samurai commit seppuku (ritual suicide)
February 14 - Earthquake in Norcia, Italy
May 27 – Founding of St Petersburg
May 26 – Portugal joins Great 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
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
Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mustafa II (1695-1703) to Ahmed III (1703-1730).
Births
October 5 - Jonathan Edwards, Calvinist preacher
June 28 - John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (died 1791)
Deaths
March 3 - Robert Hooke, scientist
May 16 - Charles Perrault, French author.
May 26 - Samuel Pepys, English civil servant, famous for his diary
November 19 - The Man in the Iron Mask, French prisoner of unknown identity.
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