1903

1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1903rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 903rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 3rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1900s decade.

As of the start of 1903, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1903 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1903
MCMIII
Ab urbe condita2656
Armenian calendar1352
ԹՎ ՌՅԾԲ
Assyrian calendar6653
Baháʼí calendar59–60
Balinese saka calendar1824–1825
Bengali calendar1310
Berber calendar2853
British Regnal yearEdw. 7 – 3 Edw. 7
Buddhist calendar2447
Burmese calendar1265
Byzantine calendar7411–7412
Chinese calendar壬寅年 (Water Tiger)
4600 or 4393
    — to —
癸卯年 (Water Rabbit)
4601 or 4394
Coptic calendar1619–1620
Discordian calendar3069
Ethiopian calendar1895–1896
Hebrew calendar5663–5664
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1959–1960
 - Shaka Samvat1824–1825
 - Kali Yuga5003–5004
Holocene calendar11903
Igbo calendar903–904
Iranian calendar1281–1282
Islamic calendar1320–1321
Japanese calendarMeiji 36
(明治36年)
Javanese calendar1832–1833
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4236
Minguo calendar9 before ROC
民前9年
Nanakshahi calendar435
Thai solar calendar2445–2446
Tibetan calendar阳水虎年
(male Water-Tiger)
2029 or 1648 or 876
    — to —
阴水兔年
(female Water-Rabbit)
2030 or 1649 or 877

Events

January

1903 
January 1: Edward VII becomes Emperor of India.
1903 
February 15: first teddy bear.
1903 
January 4: Electrocuting an Elephant

February

  • February 13Venezuelan crisis: After agreeing to arbitration in Washington, the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy reach a settlement with Venezuela resulting in the Washington Protocols. The naval blockade that began in 1902 will end.
  • February 23Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".

March

April

1903 
April 29: The Frank Slide occurs

May

June

1903 
June 11: Alexander I

July

1903 
July 23: 1903 Ford Model A.

August

September

October

November

December

1903 
December 17: The Wright Flyer in the air, the first airplane flight, by Orville Wright.

Date unknown

Births

January

1903 
Alan Paton

February

1903 
Tunku Abdul Rahman
1903 
Giulio Natta

March

1903 
Empress Nagako
1903 
Clare Boothe Luce
1903 
Lawrence Welk
1903 
Adolf Butenandt

April

1903 
Eliot Ness

May

1903 
Bing Crosby
1903 
Bob Hope

June

1903 
Lou Gehrig
1903 
George Orwell

July

1903 
Alec Douglas-Home
1903 
Olav V of Norway

August

1903 
Habib Bourguiba

September

1903 
Theodor W. Adorno
1903 
Claudette Colbert

October

1903 
Prince Charles, Count of Flanders
1903 
John Davis Lodge

November

1903 
Charles Rigoulot
1903 
Konrad Lorenz

December

1903 
Una Merkel
1903 
John von Neumann

Deaths

January–June

1903 
Saint Gemma Galgani
1903 
Josiah Willard Gibbs
1903 
Paul Gauguin
1903 
Apolinario Mabini
1903 
King Alexander I of Serbia

July–December

1903 
Pope Leo XIII
1903 
Lord Salisbury
1903 
Theodor Mommsen
1903 
Camille Pissarro

Unknown date

Nobel Prizes

1903 

References

Sources

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