1603

Centuries: 16th century - 17th century - 18th century

Decades: 1550s 1560s 1570s 1580s 1590s - 1600s - 1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s 1650s

Years: 1598 1599 1600 1601 1602 - 1603 - 1604 1605 1606 1607 1608

• March 24 - King James VI of Scotland succeeded his cousin Elizabeth I as king James I of England.
• Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mehmed III (1595-1603) to Ahmed I (1603-1617)
• Johann Bayer's Uranometria, an atlas of the southern sky, is published.
• Tokugawa Ieyasu granted title of shogun from the emperor of Japan and establishes the Edo or Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan. This ends the Azuchi-Momoyama period and begins the Edo period.

Births

• Denis Gaultier - A French lutenist and composer.

Deaths

• March 24 - Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland.