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 edit

January edit

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

February edit

  • 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 edit

April edit

 
April 29: The Frank Slide occurs

May edit

June edit

 
June 11: Alexander I

July edit

 
July 23: 1903 Ford Model A.

August edit

September edit

October edit

November edit

December edit

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

Date unknown edit

Births edit

January edit

 
Alan Paton

February edit

 
Tunku Abdul Rahman
 
Giulio Natta

March edit

 
Clare Boothe Luce
 
Lawrence Welk
 
Adolf Butenandt

April edit

 
Eliot Ness

May edit

 
Bing Crosby
 
Bob Hope

June edit

 
Lou Gehrig
 
George Orwell

July edit

 
Alec Douglas-Home
 
Olav V of Norway

August edit

 
Habib Bourguiba

September edit

 
Theodor W. Adorno
 
Claudette Colbert

October edit

 
Prince Charles, Count of Flanders
 
John Davis Lodge

November edit

 
Charles Rigoulot
 
Konrad Lorenz

December edit

 
Una Merkel
 
John von Neumann

Deaths edit

January–June edit

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

July–December edit

 
Pope Leo XIII
 
Lord Salisbury
 
Theodor Mommsen
 
Camille Pissarro

Unknown date edit

Nobel Prizes edit

 

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