One of the many statues of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616). Picture credit Yanajin33
In the year 1603, French explorer Samuel de Champlain sails to Canada (Mar), Queen Elizabeth I dies, having ruled since 1558, and Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of _shōgun, _establishing the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo – thus the 265-year-long Edo period begins (Mar 24), James I is crowned as King of England with limited ceremonies due to plague (Jul 25), Acadia, the French colony in North America, is founded - and all these fine people were born:
1603-xxxx Abel Tasman* seafarer/ explorer/merchant – Lutjegast, Netherlands (1659/55-56)
1603-0103 Paul Stockmann* German academic/preacher/hymn-writer - Bad Lauchstadt (1636/33)
1603-0130 David Denicke* German jurist/ hymn writer - Zittau (1680/77)
1603-0202 Louise de Bourbon* noblewoman - Paris, Kingdom of France (1637/34)
1603-0207 Friederich Stellwagen (B) German pipe organ builder - Halle (1660/57)
1603-0302 Pietro Novelli* painter/ active in Palermo - Monreale, Sicily (1647/44)
1603-0318 Simon Bradstreet (B) businessman/the last governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony/to America at age 27 - Lincolnshire, England (1697/93)
1603-0406 Simon Paulli* physician/ naturalist active in Denmark - Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1680/77)
1603-0424 Thomas Allen* lawyer/politician - London, England (1681/78)
1603-0518 Herbert Croft* clergyman/ bishop of Hereford - Great Milton, Oxfordshire, England (1691/88)
1603-0603 Pietro Paolini* Italian painter - Lucca (1681/77)
1603-0617 Joseph of Cupertino* Franciscan friar/Christian mystic and saint - Copertino, Kingdom of Naples (1663/60)
1603-0723 Axel Lillie* soldier/ politician - Löfstad Castle, Kingdom of Sweden (1662/59)
1603-0809 Johannes Cocceius* Dutch theologian/oriental scholar - Bremen (1669/66)
1603-0817 Lennart Torstensson* military engineer/field marshal - Forstena, Kingdom of Sweden (1651/47)
1603-0910 Henri Valois* philologist - Paris, Kingdom of France (1676/72)
1603-0915 Tokugawa Yorifusa* 徳川 頼房 daimyō of the early Edo period/ the eleventh son of Tokugawa Ieyasu - Japan (1661/57)
1603-1002 John Yonge* merchant/ politician - England (1663/59)
1603-1020 Simon de Vos* Flemish painter/draughtsman/art collector - Antwerp (1676/72)
1603-1110 Agneta de Graeff van Polsbroek* patrician woman/the mother-in-law of Johan de Witt - Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (1656/52)
1603-1116 Augustyn Kordecki* Polish monastery prior - Iwanowice, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1673/69)
1603-1221 Jean de Launoy* historian - Le Valdécie, Kingdom of France (1678/74)
1603-1221 Roger Williams* theologian/ author/founder of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations – London, England (1683/79)
Updated 13.1.2022
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